The Daily Grateful with Michael Crose

In the Spellbound Edition we talk  about transplanting trees this time of year as well as shrubs. I go through in great detail telling you how to successfully transplant small trees and shrubs from one location in your yard or from your yard to someone else in such a way that the plants will Thrive once spring comes.

In this episode we talked about Thanksgiving being over with and what do we do between now and the first of the year. This is the time of year when I like to plan my landscape for next year. by the way a Shameless plug if I met one of the best ways to plan your landscape for next year and keep track of it as the years go on is with my brand new gardening Journal. It is available here . https://www...

And today is ever so exciting episode of the podcast I talked about something really cool called microgreens and I tell you what they are how to make them how to grow them and all kinds of fun stuff so listen up you're going to learn something .

For this episode of the podcast I chose to give you the entire last broadcast radio show that I have done which airs on November 16th 2019. After 35 years of weekend radio on a national basis heard on radio stations all across the fruited plain the radio show came to an end finally this week. I am not sad about this because the podcast which I enjoy doing more continues and now every week there wi...

In this ever so exciting episode of the podcast I talked about a couple that I met this week who wanted to prune their trees and they needed advice. What I didn't mention is that the wife as it turns out is actually a well-known pornstar. I had no idea who she was until her husband gave me her business card. I still have no idea who she is and the last thing that she appeared to be to me what's a...

On today's exciting podcast Michael talks about nematodes in houseplants as well as Lawns and Gardens. There are several types of nematodes but they are divided into two classifications and Michael talks about both of them. There are endoparasitic nematodes and exto parasitic nematodes. listen to this week's exciting Ask The Garden Geek Podcast to know everything you need to know.

It's fall and it's time for fertilizer and while I get millions of questions or it seems like millions of questions about what kind of fertilizer to use I've decided to teach you all about fertilizer so you can figure out what kind of fertilizer you need. We talked about macronutrients and minor nutrients.

In this exciting episode of the podcast we answer questions from a lady in California all about trees and apricots and just all kinds of stuff we talked about soil we talked about calcium we talked about bone meal we talked about Organics and what you didn't find out is it she doesn't like Roundup.

In today's exciting episode Michael talks about his daughter's desire to grow pumpkins 2 weeks before   Halloween and how he had to tell her it wasn't going to happen. But he did make the offer of growing watermelons for next summer in the backyard and went into a little detail about that.

In this exciting edition of the show I'm going to not talk about gardening but instead I'm going to talk about podcasting because soon the radio show will disappear and this is what will be left and it's going to be terrific.

In this exciting episode Michael talks all about poop. Poop as a natural fertilizer, poop as a potting soil and what kind of poop works best as a fertilizer and what kind of poop works worst.

In this exciting episode Michael talks about growing pumpkins in Florida. His daughter Cassie is now living here and has decided that she wanted to grow pumpkins for her three children. What you must understand about Cassie is it if you tell her she can't do something she figures out a way to do it so we explore just how to grow pumpkins and bananas and baking and all kinds of other stuff.

In this exciting episode Michael Crose talks about bed bugs and how expensive it is to make them go away. He then talks about a low-cost solution that you can do yourself for under $50. German cockroaches are another big problem that people have in homes and in this episode Michael updates us with all of the new products that he recommends for getting rid of German cockroaches in your home.

In this exciting episode of Ask The Garden Geek, the podcast Michael talks about podcasting how's that? He talks about the transition of the radio show into a podcast which will permanently happen in November and explained a few things about how radio works and how podcasting works. Then by golly he got to some gardening questions in particular how to get rid of spider mites on houseplants without...

In this exciting episode of ask the garden geek I go into great detail about fertilizer. What exactly is fertilizer, what does it contain and what does it do. I talked about major elements and minor nutrients including minerals in both plants and soils and our bodies.

In this exciting episode of the podcast we talked about a garden journal you to record and keep track of your landscape. Most people use journals to write down their private thoughts and talk about the people that they love that they don't want the other people that they love to know that they love and you know stuff like that.  Not here, we instead keep a record of everything that's going on...

  in this somewhat awesome podcast I talk about mold that you see in your garden on certain plants  and on potted plants on the soil.  We talked about the cause, and we talked about the cure. Next we talked about how to get your house plants ready for fall and winter so you don't have to mess with them in the spring. 

 In this exciting episode we talked about starting a new lawn not in the spring but in the fall. We do this by using grass plugs. They can be St Augustine grass plugs, Bermuda grass plugs, Zoysia grass plugs, Centipede grass plugs or even Buffalo Grass plugs. If you follow these simple instructions in the spring you'll have the beginnings of a beautiful new lawn and by June you will have a be...

 In this exciting addition of the show  I talked about dry spots in your yard. Has this ever happened to you? Walking out on your lawn after it's been watered or after it's rained and in no time flat you see a dry spot. What do you do? Well if you listen to this absolutely stunning episode you just might find out. Plus I rattle on about other things that have nothing to do with gardening...

 In this edition Michael talks about bunch of stuff including lawns the effective way too much rain, the importance of healthy soils that you get when you go 100% organic with your fertilization. Then out of nowhere he talks about solar power and why he thinks it's probably silly at this point in life.

  In this episode of Ask The Garden Geek Michael talks about among other things compost and how fun it is to put into your lawn and your garden and make your soil incredibly good and disease  resistant.  After getting an email this week about how to deal with fungus in the yard Michael reflects on yes there are things you can do to control fungus but the better option is to pre...

 On this edition Michael talks about trees in urban areas especially downtown areas. Local Tampa activist Topher Morrison  is not happy that oak trees in downtown Tampa are being replaced by Palms. Michael just happens to disagree with him to a certain extent. if you have a metropolitan area near you or living one you're going to want to hear about trees growing downtown.  

 In this Edition we talked about growing pineapples in a pot or in your yard if you live in the Deep South in a pot if you live elsewhere and have better control of your temperature. We also talked about growing bean sprouts in a jar or alfalfa sprouts in a jar. It is surprisingly easy and fun. 

 In this episode Michael Crose talks about hydroponic gardening and reviews a very difficult to get book called The Hydroponic Garden Secret by Susan Patterson. We look this book up on Amazon and could find nothing I finally had to go to the website that is listed on the back of the book and that website is called thealternativedaily.com  A note of caution about this website. I found it...

Diatomaceous Earth As Natural Pest Control One of the more popular uses of D.E. is as a natural form of pest control . Because of the many tiny sharp edges on each spec. of D.E., when it comes in contact with insects D.E. absorbs the waxy coating that covers the insect causing a laceration of the exposed tissue. This is aggravated by the insects writhing. The insect dies from dehydration, usually...