The Daily Grateful with Michael Crose

In this exciting episode, I talked about how to podcast. Yes, I know this is a podcast about gardening it's you know it is about being geeky but I'm not ready to start talking about gardening yet after last week. So next week maybe we'll see. My son suggested today that I answer the question of how to start a podcast. With absolutely zero preparation I sat down here at the microphone and talked ab...

Hello, my name is Michael Crose. Today I am taking part, along with a thousand or so other of my fellow podcasters, in what we call #PodcastBlackout. Instead of normal programming today, we're going to talk about the murder of George Floyd. But before we do that, listen, if you will, to anti-racism activist, Jane Elliott, as she addresses an audience that was absolutely filled with white people. J...

What is Frangipani? That's a question I get asked all the time. well actually I really ever get that question, but a lovely lady sent me a picture of one that her husband had found in the Everglades and gave to her and she just loved it but wanted to know more about it. Since her husband is a horticulturist I found it odd that she was asking me but then again I'm an odd person and I bring things o...

In this episode we talked about getting old. What a drag it is getting old and having to go out and do yard work. Now we're talking about something that is my passion. For years I have loved going out and mowing my yard. When I had young kids and a wife at home mowing my yard was my zen meditation. The family knew that I could only be interrupted while mowing my yard if it was a major catastrophe....

in this episode, I talked about the challenges of doing Horticultural Consulting with people while we're dealing with social distancing. Today became a really big challenge for us when a client flew down from New York 2 days ago and didn't go into a two-week quarantine before he wanted to interact with people especially me and my son. I had to tell him no.  he understood and made a list of th...

Today I was paid a bunch of money to go tell a woman why her magnolia tree was not doing well. She actually did not want to hear what I had to say but instead drove me over to a neighbor's house in a gated community to look at her beautiful Magnolias and she wanted me to explain to her why hers didn't look that good.. Since she really didn't want to hear anything I said yet she paid me for it, you...

in this episode, I talk about an easy way to get fire ants out of your landscape without using massive amounts of chemicals. While the way is not organic it is very mild and it works every darn time.

And this exciting episode I talk about fertilizer and the extreme importance of having a soil test done on your garden or your lawn. Sometimes we can over-fertilize and put too much of one nutrient down and that is never a good thing because if there is too much phosphorus, for example, it could tie up the soil to where it could not accept other nutrients.

Some of you may remember the People's Radio Network. it started was bought out by the UAW and then Chuck harder started it again. I had the distinct honor of doing the first live show on the second version of PRN. I also had the distinct honor of doing the last live show on PRN. On the last show, my producer goofed me and did all kinds of strange things at the beginning of the show it was actually...

In this possibly my worst show ever I have a hard time focusing because I am so damn depressed about being alone in my home and not being able to see my family and my loved ones. I talked about my front yard as best as I can and my inability to rake the damn leaves and I guess I do what many people are doing right now. Riding this whole thing out as best we can.

And this thrill-seeking episode we discuss how to inexpensively create a compost pile in your backyard that will serve you for years and years. We talked about the materials to use to build your container very inexpensively. By the way I use chicken wire. We talked about layering and turning and how to just have the most wonderful compost pile.

In this episode besides me complaining about not being able to get out and be with people because of this stupid ass virus I talked about pollen in the state of Florida and how difficult it is on our lungs and on our landscape and on our paint on our cars and on our roofs and everything else. I talk about what's new as far as a Roundup replacement and I'm here to tell you there's not good news in...

And this absolutely exciting well maybe not totally exciting but in any way, in this episode of the podcast, I, of course, go totally off-topic and start talking about toilet paper. How is toilet paper connect to do gardening you say? And that is a very good question. In one section of this podcast, I talked about going to Home Depot because I had heard there was a shortage of fertilizer because o...

In this exciting episode of the podcast I talk to you all about what I'm doing this weekend which is appearing at a super duper pooper okay more of the pooper part later event in Orlando Florida called Podcast Expo. I also talked about my lawn and how where I live it is actually spring and that's very exciting and I went out and mowed the yard yesterday and spread two bags of poop on it. My neighb...

In this flashback episode from the old Home and Garden Radio Show, I did on the accent Radio Network you will hear long time listener oh, the Mad Dog from Michigan not tell us how he paid his house off in 5 years. then I had a guest that was sent by a publicist that I really didn't want to interview but it turned out pretty good. His name is Dr. John Steyer A Turfgrass expert from Wisconsin that I...

In this episode of Ask The Garden Geek we talked about pesticide safety for homeowners and people who like to do their own pest control with  the host of The Pest Geek Podcast Franklin Hernandez is the founder of NaturePest and a Certified Pest Control Operator in General Household Pests and Lawn and Ornamental Pest Control in the State of Florida as well as a Certified Horticultural Speciali...

Okay I know we're in the middle of February but before you know it before you can even imagine it, spring will be here. I just happened to know you're going to want to go out and cut something with your chainsaw Or your hedge trimmers. In this episode I talked about fixing to get ready for spring.

In this edition of the podcast we talked about pesticides, we talked about the history we talked about development and where pesticides are today. We talked about chemical pesticides as well as Organic pesticides including the Botanicals. We also talked about the importance of understanding toxicity both chemical and organic and natural pesticides have a certain amount of toxicity and just because...

Many people today want to use natural organic fertilizer on their lawns. In this Edition we talked about the different types of fertilizer. What makes up a fertilizer and what makes a fertilizer organic. We talked about the main elements as well as the minor elements of fertilizer both chemical and organic.

In this episode we talked about the fact that is cold even in Florida and we talked about making plans for spring. This will include moving plants around adding new plants and getting ready for the nutritional needs of all of our plants as we move into this most wonderous time of year.

For the second year in a row I have received zero catalogs from seed companies which is very distressing because over the years I used to get 30 to 40 seed catalogs every December and January and I ordered from every one of them. In this edition of the podcast I guess we talk about transitions and how some things I guess are just not as popular as they once were.

This is show 1769.

In this absolutely fabulous edition of the podcast Michael tries again to swear but he can't bring himself to do it. We speak a little bit about the Christmas holiday with grandchildren and kids and hamburgers and rocket launchers made for kids and Michael confesses that his yard is full ff weeds because he did not do what he was supposed to do. Here how he solves the situation and how he used a n...

This year I step into the studio totally unprepared simply because the month just creeped up on me. So following tradition I have nothing about gardening to say. Instead I talked about my journey to my new podcast that I am working on.

In this holiday kind of addition of the podcast I talked about the care and feeding of your Christmas tree if you get a real Christmas tree. If you follow this wonderful advice chances are reasonably good that when it's all over with you won't have all of these pine needles all over your floor. Then just for fun I opened up my mail and pulled out a book called Nature's Best Hope and kind of went t...