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Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Happy Thanksgiving! Gardening expert Teresa Watkins is joined by award-winning author and podcaster, Carol Michel. Carol provides her Christmas book list for gardeners that have been good this year. Dirty word of the Day is Cornucopia. Garden calls and texts include suggestions for fruit trees for a Port Charlotte garden, tree mold, how to protect plants in winter, papaya tree, fig rust, how to get rid of air potato, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAdSubscribe to my free monthly gardening newsletter: In Your Backyard.Graphic credits: Teresa WatkinsJoin Teresa on the amazing Brandywine Garden Extravaganza Tour June 13 - 17, 2021.Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #Fall #WRLN #WiOD#Fall #radio #podcast #winter #Thanksgiving #fruittrees

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Happy Thanksgiving! Past Thanksgiving memories with Lizzie and Josh. Garden expert Teresa Watkins discusses when and how to use Neem oil in the garden with Dr. Matt Borden, Bartlett Tree Service. Garden questions and texts include powdery mildew, black spots on Duranta, plant disease, insect control, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAdSubscribe to my free monthly gardening newsletter: In Your Backyard.Join Teresa on her Brandywine Garden Extravaganza Tour June 13 - 17, 2021!Graphic credits: Teresa WatkinsListen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #summer #WRLN #WiOD #insects #pesticides #insectcontrol #Thanksgiving #Neemoil #radio #podcast #CHENO

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Gardening expert Teresa Watkins is gobsmacked over the new Proven Winners Color Choice "Perfecto Mundo" reblooming double azaleas for Central Florida. Dr. Judson LeCompte, research/breeder for Spring Meadow Nursery discusses all the benefits including lacebug resistance and sun-tolerance of these lush, low-maintenance azaleas. Dirty word of the Day is Autotrophs. Garden calls and texts include tropical soda apple, what to use on persistant whiteflies in the vegetable garden, using landscape fabric mesh in garden beds (NO!), using rock mulch under raised bed, transplanting Ponderosa lemon, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAd Subscribe to my free monthly gardening newsletter: In Your Backyard. Graphic credits: Teresa Watkins Join Teresa on the amazing Brandywine Garden Extravaganza Tour June 13 - 17, 2021. Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #Fall #WRLN #WiOD#Fall #radio #podcast #PerfectoMundo

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Garden expert Teresa Watkins almost didn't make it to the show! Teresa and Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists Nursery, discuss the importance of adding minerals like Azomite to Garden questions and texts include whiteflies solution, tropical soda apple, replacement for dwarf oyster plant getting too much water, should carambola fruit be removed from young tree, leaves dying on a Peppermint peach tree, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAd Subscribe to my free monthly gardening newsletter: In Your Backyard.Join Teresa on her Brandywine Garden Extravaganza Tour June 13 - 17, 2021! Graphic credits: Teresa WatkinsListen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #summer #WRLN #WiOD #minerals #Azomite #radio #podcast

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Tower Garden expert and Chicken Lady, Leah Brooks joins garden host, Teresa Watkins to discuss raising chickens. Lots of bad puns, more chicken trivia, weather and garden updates from North Florida. Dirty word of the Day is Cover Crop. Calls, texts, and emails include excess water use, cover crops, lack of rainfall, orchids in full sun, wildflower planting season, voodoo lilies, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAdSubscribe to my free monthly gardening newsletter: In Your Backyard.Graphic credits: Teresa WatkinsNeed bulbs for Winter and Spring? Check out Brent and Becky's Bulbs!Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #Fall #WRLN #WiOD #Chickens #urbanchickens #freerangechickens #Fall #radio #podcast #wildflowers

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Garden expert Teresa Watkins is joined by UF Seminole County Florida-Friendly Landscape Agent, Tina McIntyre. Tina answers questions on the need to change irrigation timers for Daylight Savings Time. Garden questions and texts include water conservation, chicken trivia, weather, all the rain, what to do in your landscape for November, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAd Subscribe to my free monthly gardening newsletter: In Your Backyard. Graphic credits: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #turf #grass #landscaping #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BigBend #Tallahassee #WRLN #WiOD #DaylightSavingsTime #irrigation #time #Fall

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Garden expert, Teresa Watkins quotes Macbeth's couplet from the witches scene and is joined by Denise Schreiber, aka "Mrs. Know It All", to discuss Halloween traditions and herbs. President of the Nehrling Garden Society, Angela Withers, announces that the Nehrling Gardens have been awarded $1,000,000 from the West Orange Healthcare District. Dirty word of the Day is decomposition. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble.Fillet of a fenny snake,In the caldron boil and bake;Eye of newt and toe of frog,Wool of bat and tongue of dog,Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,Lizard's leg and howlet's wing,For a charm of powerful trouble,Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.Double, double toil and trouble;Fire burn and caldron bubble.Cool it with a baboon's blood, Then the charm is firm and good.Notes: Macbeth: IV.i 10-19; 35-38 Calls, texts, and emails include growing cherry tomatoes indoors, best variety of zoysiagrass, Zeon zoysiagrass, putting down fertilizer right after a rain storm, bat praises, propagating viburnums, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAdGraphic credits: Teresa WatkinsNeed bulbs for Winter and Spring? Check out Brent and Becky's Bulbs! Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #summer #WRLN #WiOD #Halloween #bats #radio #podcast

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Happy Halloween! Teresa Watkins celebrates the Autumn holiday childhood memories of playing with bats with Shari Clark, President of the Florida Bat Conservancy. They discuss where to place bat houses and what to do to attract more bats to your landscape. Sweater weather arrives in Central Florida and Better Lawns and Gardens hits 15,000 podcast downloads! Garden questions and texts include plant suggestions for a shaded area, soda apple, white flies on tomatoes, fertilizing St. Augustinegrass, overseeding rye on Bermudagrass, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAd Graphic credits: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BigBend #Tallahassee #summer #WRLN #WiOD #Halloween #bats #radio #podcast

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Host Teresa Watkins discusses resurgence of planting citrus with Lance Walheim, author of Citrus:: Complete Guide to Selecting & Growing More Than 100 Varieties for California, Arizona, the Gulf Coast, and Florida. Topics, calls, and texts, include Teresa's Dirty Word of the Day, moles vs voles, sterilizing weeds, topping avocado trees, orangewood tree, oak limbs falling, Italian cypress turning brown, replace with a Shumard, Nuttall, or Winged Elm? and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAd Graphic credits: Lance Walheim, Teresa Watkins Need bulbs for Winter and Spring? Check out Brent and Becky's Bulbs! Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #landscaping #Fall #citrus #citrusgreening #Autumn

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Garden expert Teresa Watkins gets updates from Leah Brooks, Tower Garden rep, on her Fall garden and how to order a Tower Garden for Christmas. Topics, questions, and texts include muhly grass, black mulberry tree, bee removal, topping a papaya tree, adding grass clippings to compost, rainfall deficits, mushrooms in turf, bougainvillea transplant stress, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAd Graphic credits: Leah Brooks, Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #landscaping #Fall #indoorplants #houseplants #Autumn

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Teresa Watkins, gets great indoor plant suggestions from The Houseplant Guru, Lisa Eldred Steinkopf. Lisa provides recommendations on containers to use, care, and pruning tall houseplants. Garden calls and texts about mealy bugs on coconut palms, rhubarb, how long does it take a systemic to work, blackberry and raspberry varieties, cutting back a bougainvillea, do aphids sting, boxwood turning yellow, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAd Graphic credits: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #landscaping #Fall #indoorplants #houseplants #Autumn

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Garden expert Teresa Watkins and Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists Nursery, discuss their favorite Autumn seasonal colorful trees. Celebrate National Apple Day, October 21st, by planting an apple tree! Dana provides apple varieties that do well in Florida. University of Florida Extension professor emeritus and Better Lawns and Gardens host emeritus Tom MacCubbin calls in to update on his Fall vegetables. Garden questions and texts include colorful nasturtiums, tomato disease, what kind of plastic to use for sterilization, yellowing leaf spot in St. Augustinegrass, and more. https://bit.ly/3tfLgAd Graphic credits: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #landscaping #Fall #indoorplants #houseplants #Autumn

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Teresa talks to one of her favorite garden celebrities, Katie Dubow, president of Garden Media Group about the Garden Trends Report 2022. Learn about localtopia, shoppertainment, and what future gardening trends for 2022 will be! Calls and text questions include when and how to divide lovegrass, Heritage tomato seeds, tomato plants, croton scale, chemicals to spray on turf weeds, vegetables you can plant right now, and more. https://bit.ly/3mBsq3L Photo Credit: Garden Media Group Like us on Facebook and please share with your family and friends! Teresa's third book, "A Gardener's Compendium Volume 3 Gardening with The Senses" is now out! Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1-888-455-2967, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Tampa #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #Fall #WRLN #WiOD #GardenMedia #GardenTrends #2022

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 - Gardening expert Teresa Watkins, speaks with Dr. Matt Borden, plant consultant on Fall and Winter seasonal disease of Powdery Mildew. Gardening questions and texts include bougainvillea zones and not blooming, bayberry jelly or jam, getting rid of crabgrass, pruning azaleas and ixora, canning materials, getting rid of doveweed, torpedograss, sterilizing garden tools, and more. https://bit.ly/3BolxJc Photo Credit: Dr. Matt Borden, Bartlett Tree Service. Like us on Facebook and please share with your family and friends! Teresa's third book, "A Gardener's Compendium Volume 3 Gardening with The Senses" is now out! Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1-888-455-2967, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Tampa #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #Fall #WRLN #WiOD #October #diseases

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Teresa Watkins, garden expert, gets advice on creating beautiful Fall container gardens from the Hoosier Gardener, Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp. Teresa has a special announcement on her Brandywine Garden Extravaganza Tour in June 2022 of an additional day at the Philadelphia Flower Show! Gardening questions and texts include grapefruit tree, Cattleya orchids, lubber grasshoppers on amaryllis, Hass avocados, tomatoes and peppers are dying, sooty mold on cocoplum hedges, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Graphic Credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions at 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #summer #WRLN #WiOD #author #books #gardentour #gardens #botanicalgardens #travel #containergardens #PhiladelphiaFlowerShow #Hoosiers #Indiana #chard

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Garden expert Teresa Watkins congratulates Ed Thralls, Extension agent emeritus, on his retirement this week. Ed provides his Fall gardening advice and tips on how to grow pumpkins in Florida. Gardening questions and texts include pony tail and Washingtonia palms, droopy crotons, herbs for Thanksgiving, what to do in the landscape for October, planting macho ferns, and Hawaiian tis losing color - why? And more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2Photo Credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #tropicals #landscaping #Fallgardening #pumpkins #Autumn #SHE #sustainable #horticulture #environments

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Teresa Watkins, garden expert, is joined by Sally Cunningham, award winning garden author, garden columnist, feature writer: Buffalo News, Buffalo Spree Magazine, and tour Director, and national Director of the GardenComm organization , get excited talking about their garden tour June 13- 17, 2021 to the Brandywine Valley. Come with us! Find out more details here. Joelibeth Portillo, owner of Succulents Empire, called to talk about her rare and exotic plant collection in her plant boutique. Gardening questions and texts include transplanting daylilies, insect issue on tomatoes, sweet potatoes, peanuts, sky vine not blooming, disease issue on snake plants, orchid fertilizing, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Graphic Credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions at 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #summer #WRLN #WiOD #author #books #Buffalo #GardenWalkBuffalo #gardentour #gardens #botanicalgardens #travel

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Garden expert, Teresa Watkins chats with Dr. Jaret Daniels, curator of the Florida Museum of Natural History and professor of Entomology at the University of Florida about his "hairy bee research". You can upload your photographs of native plasterer bees to iNaturalist. Sad to announce that Jim Thomas, a great environmental leader for Florida passed this week. To honor Jim Thomas's work, donations can be made to Oakland Nature Preserve. Wish a Happy birthday to Tom MacCubbin! Gardening questions and texts include weed killer, growing potatoes in Ocala, weeping small tree for house, repairing St. Augustine turf for HOA, North Florida report from Beverly, lychee tree, tall hibiscus pruning, rust on plumeria, when to prune tea olives, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2Graphic Credit: Dr. Jaret Daniel, ErikaMonster, UF/IFASListen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #research #bees #butterflies #pollinators #tropicals #landscaping

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Teresa Watkins, garden expert , is thrilled to have award-winning author, Carol J. Michel, to talk about her latest book, Digging and Delighted. In honor of Carol's new book, there is a an appropriate "Dirty Word of the Day." Teresa found a new rare indoor houseplant, Ficus triangularis which she found at her favorite local nursery, Apenberry's Gardens. You can see a photo of my new plant on Better Lawns and Gardens Facebook page. Gardening questions and texts include dwarf oyster plants dying, poinsettia stems dying back, organic herbicides, OMRI lists of organic products; Canary Island date palm disease; watering schedule for new St. Augustinegrass, pineapple fruit; orchid fertilizing, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Graphic Credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions at 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #summer #WRLN #WiOD #author #books #digging #questionsandanswers #radio #podcast #Maitland

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Better Lawns and Gardens wins the Best of Maitland 2021 in the Agriculture category! Yay, Tom MacCubbin and me! Gardening horticulturist and landscape designer Teresa Watkins chats with Tina McIntyre, Seminole County Extension's Florida-friendly Landscape agent on mulching basics, benefits, and myths. Teresa has found an exciting new downtown Orlando plant shop - Succulents Empire. Gardening questions and texts include pruning palm fronds, eggplant not producing, orchids not blooming and what kind of pot do they need, what size container to grow onions, plumeria rust, does eucalyptus mulch float, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2Graphic Credit: Teresa WatkinsListen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #mulch #landscape #podcast #succulents

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Teresa Watkins, garden expert is joined by renowned landscape authority, Lance Walheim on Fall lawn fertilization. New "Dirty Word of the Day." Gardening questions and texts include turf issues, "not good at lawn care", Florida snow, torpedograss; aphids on milkweed, plumbago growing too big, stink weed removal, tropical sod webworm, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2Photo Credit: Teresa WatkinsListen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions at 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #summer #WRLN #WiOD #September #lawns #fertilizer #fertilizaton #grass #lawncare #LanceWalheim

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Teresa Watkins recollects the 20th anniversary of September 11, 2001. South Florida's Yard-Doc, Carol Bailey shares her years of experience vegetable gardening by the sea. Producer Lizzie Steele provides background information on her past life in landscape maintenance. Gardening questions and texts include crape myrtles and bougainvilleas. checking indoor patio plants and orchids, how to check your plants for insects, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Photo Credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #summer #WRLN #WiOD #seaside #ocean #Floridacoast #HobeSound #YardDoc #911 #Neverforget

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Still getting her roots situated, girl power with Melissa Fox, and Lizzie Steele, Better Lawns and Gardens' new producer, Teresa Watkins, horticulturist, landscape designer, and garden author, celebrates Labor Day with fruit tree planting tips from Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists Nursery in Deland, Florida. New "Dirty Word of the Day." Gardening questions and texts include fig rust, long-time listener Beverly's storm updates, lawn fertilizing, cast iron plants as groundcover, sod installation timing, planting a container-grown avocado tree, fertilizing crape myrtles and azaleas, removing Virginia creeper, indoor Peace lily care, transplanting a feijoa tree, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2Photo Credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions at 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #summer #WRLN #WiOD #QualityGreenSpecialists #fruittrees #LaborDay

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Happy Labor Day weekend! Teresa Watkins, gardening expert discusses health and time-saving labor tips for gardeners with Ed Thralls, Orange County Extension Horticultural Agent. Gardening questions and texts include updates on doveweed and pigeon pea, starting a Fall garden, lubber grasshoppers, deadheading pentas, why is my plant dying (?), crape myrtles not blooming, composting with soldier fly bins, and a job request from Morgana, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2Photo Credit: Creative Commons Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #summer #WRLN #WiOD #LaborDay #Fall #health #seniors

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Teresa Watkins, horticulturist, landscape designer, and garden author, reflects back on growing up near Cypress Gardens and Slocum Water Gardens with Kathy Jentz, editor and publisher of the award-winning Washington Gardener Magazine, based in Washington, DC. She is also the host of the popular GardenDC Podcast. Her mission is to turn black thumbs green. A life-long gardener, Kathy believes that growing plants should be stress-free and enjoyable. Her philosophy is inspiration over perspiration Kathy encourages with great advice on how every landscape needs a water garden. Gardening questions and texts include how to attach air plants and orchids to trees, plant choices for full sun, Ponytail palm in Zone 8, clumping bamboo, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2Photo Credit: Kathy Jentz. The International Water Lily and Water Gardening Society The quarterly Water Gardening Journal magazine Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455-2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #summer #WRLN #WiOD #watergardening #waterlily #IWGS #KathyJentz

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Teresa Watkins, horticulturist, landscape designer, and garden author, finds out what Leah Brooks, gardener extraordinaire, mom, Tower Garden rep, and experienced community and school gardener. Leah has helped over a thousand families start, maintain, and expand backyard, patio, basement, and kitchen gardens. Teresa and Leah discuss how easy to grow Fall vegetables in a small space. Teresa finds a Knight anole in Winter Park. Gardening questions and texts include spots on lemon tree, poinsettia care, clumping bamboo, hydrangeas, and Giant Apostle irises in Florida, removing bougainvillea, coleus, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Photo Credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455-2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #summer #WRLN #WiOD #TowerGarden #aeroponics #Fall

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Gardening expert Teresa Watkins, is joined by The Houseplant Guru, Lisa Eldred Steinkopf on caring for houseplants indoors and outdoors during the summer. Caller and text questions include boxwoods turning yellow, should I remove Australian pine tree, pruning poinsettias, honey bee infestation, fire ants, gardenia variety with the largest bloom, more on moles, container garden on the beach, can I cut pentas back now, and more. BetterLawns.com Photo Credit: Teresa WatkinsThe Houseplant Guru books! Like us on Facebook and please share with your family and friends! Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call me with your garden questions at 1-888-455-2967, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #summer #WRLN #WiOD #Extension #August #WNDB #Houseplants

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 - Celebrate National Dog Day on August 26th by adopting a wonderful dog at your local animal shelter. Gardening expert Teresa Watkins, is joined by Cherie Velez to discuss a solution for dogs that will only go on grass. Also, new development on reducing irrigation to help reduce the need for liquid oxygen. This will help provide more resources to help COVID-19 patients. Gardening questions and texts include differences between horticultural oil and cooking oil, getting rid of moles, ants, blooming shrubs for August, and more. BetterLawns.com Photo Credit: Gotta Go Grass Like us on Facebook and please share with your family and friends! Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions at 1-888-455-2967, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #summer #WRLN #WiOD #GottaGo #dogs #August #WNDB

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Gardening expert Teresa Watkins, discusses citrus greening with options to grow citrus in containers with garden author Lance Walheim. "Dirty Word of The Day" is cotyledon. Caller and text questions include taking care of torpedo grass, weeds, lawn issues, zoysiagrass, crape myrtle flowers falling off in rain and crape myrtle that won't bloom, rotating butternut squash crops with cucumbers, what type of plastic for solarization, and more. BetterLawns.com Find citrus to grow in your container at Logee's. Photo Credit: Logee's 15 Popular Easy To Grow Citrus Lance Walheim's Citrus book. Like us on Facebook and please share with your family and friends! Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions at 1-888-455-2967, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #summer #WRLN #WiOD #Extension #August #citrus #containers #solarization

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 - Gardening expert Teresa Watkins, is joined by Ed Thralls, Orange County Extension Residential Horticultural agent. Ed and Teresa discuss taking care of and how to thin your seedlings and best management practices of Florida Fall vegetable gardens. Teresa provides landscape preparation for Tropical Storm Fred. Caller and text questions included flora rosa (?),taking care of sedge, and weeds, in lawns, stubborn and dying corn, do lizards eat plants, pruning Indian hawthorne, azalea fertilizing, pruning Sabal palm suckers, growing Seminole pumpkin, and banana trees, and more. BetterLawns.com Photo Credit: Teresa Watkins Like us on Facebook and please share with your family and friends! Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1-888-455-2967, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #summer #WRLN #WiOD #Extension #August

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 , Teresa Watkins,discusses seeds with Randy Schultz, editor of Home Garden and Homestead about selecting and planting seeds for your Fall garden. Along the same line, Denise Schreiber, Mrs. Know It All, gardening and tree expert, plants seeds of information that the GardenComm's 2021 national virtual conference happens August 11 - 14th, 2021. Opened to all gardeners and green industry professionals, the conference features horticultural lectures, professional development, meet the editors, and international virtual garden tours. Caller and text questions included crape myrtle and butterfly questions, controlling sedge, spider mites in a clerodendron, and more. BetterLawns.com Photo Credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1-888-455-2967, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #summer #WRLN #WiOD #Deland #August

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 New host, Teresa Watkins, interviews Dana Venrick, Quality Green Specialists about all the many fruit trees that can be grown in Florida, including apples, peaches, pears, and more. Caller questions included sunflowers, growing crispy lettuce, declining ligustrum tree, chinch bugs in turf, using Milorganite on lawns, how to fertilize Little Gem magnolia, azaleas with skunk vine, will pruned tomato resprout, and is ganoderma fatal, and more. BetterLawns.com Photo Credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1-888-455-2967, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #summer #WRLN #WiOD #Deland #August

BetterLawnsandGardens Hour 2 – Tom and Joani MacCubbin’s last show, with Tom and Teresa Watkins’ garden memories, favorite gardening questions and garden calls, texts, and questions from all of the fans. Next week, Better Lawns and Gardens with Teresa Watkins answering your Florida gardening questions. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Photo Credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455-2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #summer #WRLN #WiOD

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 and 2 – After 33 years, Tom and Joani MacCubbin’s talk with Teresa Watkins’ about their good times, great memories, favorite gardening questions, and calls, texts, and questions from all of BLG's fans. Next week, Better Lawns and Gardens continues with gardening expert Teresa Watkins answering your Florida gardening questions. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Photo Credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455-2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #summer #WRLN #WiOD

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #2 – Gardening expert Teresa Watkins and Tom MacCubbin are joined by former Scotts MiracleGro gardening expert and author, Ashton Ritchie to reminisce about the good ol' Extension days. Calls, gardening questions, texts, include ashoka, mast trees, Mexican ruellia not blooming, thornless blackberries, solarizing with plastic, pineapples, something's eating orange blossom flowers, container gardens, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Teresa's third book, "A Gardener's Compendium Volume 3 Gardening with The Senses" is now out! Photo Credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 407.916.5400, 1.888.45.LAWNS, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #podcast #radio #southflorida #northflorida #betterlawns #centralflorida #tropical #June #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #trees #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #summer #WRLN #WiOD #Extension #retirement #ashoka #Scotts #Miraclegro

Better Lawns and Gardens, Florida's most popular gardening show with gardening experts, Tom MacCubbin and Teresa Watkins. www.betterlawns.com Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #1 – Gardening expert Teresa Watkins and Tom MacCubbin start a foggy morning off with Ed Thralls retiring, Calls, gardening questions, texts, include Tom and Teresa's favorite household plants, jade plants, starting seeds, time to sod?. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Teresa's third book, "A Gardener's Compendium Volume 3 Gardening with The Senses" is now out! Photo Credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 407.916.5400, 1.888.45.LAWNS, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #podcast #radio #southflorida #northflorida #betterlawns #centralflorida #tropical #June #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #trees #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #summer #WRLN #WiOD #seedstarting #fallgardens #seeds

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #2 – Gardening expert Teresa Watkins and Tom MacCubbin continue the conversation on favorite trees with sponsor Dana Venrick, Quality Green Specialist. Teresa talks about the beautiful 1908 New England 45-room mansion with a 33-acre botanical garden, Blithewold Gardens and Arboretum, which features the largest growing Redwood on the East Coast, Bosquet garden, 50, 000 daffodils, a 10-acre Great Lawn, Enclosed Garden, Orchard, Cutting and Vegetable Gardens, Rose, Water Garden, Idea Gardens, North Garden, Rock Garden, the Idea Garden, a Pollinator Garden, a small Nursery, and a re-designed Vegetable Garden. Calls, gardening questions, texts, include volunteer cantaloupes, watermelon, black spot on roses, getting rid of bugs on tomatoes, bug identification as Sri Lankan bug, growing peach tree tips, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2Teresa's third book, "A Gardener's Compendium Volume 3 Gardening with The Senses" is now out!Photo Credit: Teresa WatkinsListen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 407.916.5400, 1.888.45.LAWNS, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #podcast #radio #southflorida #northflorida #betterlawns #centralflorida #tropical #June #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #trees #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #summer #WRLN #WiOD #bugidentification #BlithewoldGardens #BotanicalGardens

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #1 – Gardening expert Tom MacCubbin and Teresa Watkins ask Bob Hotaling, Seminole County Master Gardener for an update on his summer garden. Teresa talks about the largest Sequoia on the East Coast at Blithewold Mansion, Gardens, and Arboretum, Joani talks about Stinkhorns. Lots of gardening calls, questions, texts, include getting rid of artillery weed and torpedo grass, yellow jackets in the ground, sedge, can I grow a Fairchild mango, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2Teresa's third book, "A Gardener's Compendium Volume 3 Gardening with The Senses" is now out!Photo Credit: Teresa WatkinsListen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 407.916.5400, 1.888.45.LAWNS, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #podcast #radio #southflorida #northflorida #betterlawns #centralflorida #tropical #June #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #trees #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #summer #WRLN #WiOD #Redwood #Blithewold #RhodeIsland #Botanicalgarden

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #1 – Gardening expert Tom MacCubbin ask Thomas Payne, P and L Landscaping, to talk about their favorite trees, calls and gardening questions, texts, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Teresa's third book, "A Gardener's Compendium Volume 3 Gardening with The Senses" is now out! Photo Credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 407.916.5400, 1.888.45.LAWNS, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #podcast #radio #southflorida #northflorida #betterlawns #centralflorida #tropical #June #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #trees #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #summer #WRLN #WiOD

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #1 – Gardening expert Tom MacCubbin is joined by Ed Thralls, Orange County Extension agent to get an update on what's going on in the summer garden, how to take care of Christmas-blooming plants in July, gardening questions, texts, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2Teresa's third book, "A Gardener's Compendium Volume 3 Gardening with The Senses" is now out!Photo Credit: Teresa WatkinsListen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 407.916.5400, 1.888.45.LAWNS, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #podcast #radio #southflorida #northflorida #betterlawns #centralflorida #tropical #June #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #trees #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #summer #WRLN #WiOD #ChristmasinJuly #Christmas

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #2 – Gardening experts Tom MacCubbin and Teresa Watkins are joined by Lance Walheim, BioAdvanced spokesman for an update on citrus and their favorite citrus to grow. Garden topics, questions, and texts include torpedo grass, passion vine, sunflowers, mango trees, citrus greening, moving pineapples, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Teresa's third book, "A Gardener's Compendium Volume 3 Gardening with The Senses" is now out! Photo Credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 407.916.5400, 1.888.45.LAWNS, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #podcast #radio #southflorida #northflorida #betterlawns #centralflorida #tropical #May #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #trees #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #summer #citrus#WRLN #WiOD

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #1 – Gardening experts Tom MacCubbin and Teresa Watkins are joined by long time BLG listener and gardener extraordinaire, Jim Allison. Big news today as Tom announces his and Joani's retirement as Better Lawns and Garden hosts. Garden topics, questions, and texts include Fourth of July flower combinations for the garden, summer gardening, fruit and vegetable harvests, pruning fruit trees, lightning bugs, Lily of the Nile, Lime tree question, can I move my crapemyrtle, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Teresa's third book, "A Gardener's Compendium Volume 3 Gardening with The Senses" is now out! Photo Credit: Celebration Garden Club Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 407.916.5400, 1.888.45.LAWNS, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #podcast #radio #southflorida #northflorida #betterlawns #centralflorida #tropical #June #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #trees #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #summer #WRLN #WiOD #retirement #JulyFourth #IndependenceDay #Freedom

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #2 – Gardening experts Teresa Watkins and Tom MacCubbin talk about their tomato and pepper harvests and the end of tomato season. Garden topics, questions, and texts include lychee pruning, bees, Teresa's foundation and hedge suggestions, crapemyrtle, centipede lawn, getting bougainvillea to bloom, peeling bark on elm tree normal? raccoons eating pineapples, crabgrass, soursop, lettuce not doing well, fiddleleaf figs, insects on bananas,and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Teresa's third book, "A Gardener's Compendium Volume 3 Gardening with The Senses" is now out! Photo Credit: Teresa Watkins, Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 407.916.5400, 1.888.45.LAWNS, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #podcast #radio #southflorida #northflorida #betterlawns #centralflorida #tropical #June #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #Summer #landscaping #fruits #trees #drought #landscapes #gardens #palms #Orlando #Miami #FortLauderdale #PortStLucie #BLGradio

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #1 – Gardening experts Tom MacCubbin and Teresa Watkins discuss seasonal turf and landscape issues with Ed Thralls, Orange County Extension agent. Garden topics, questions, and texts include night-blooming plants, Black Kow manure, slime mold, seeding turf lawns, Yellow Poinciana, insecticides, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Teresa's third book, "A Gardener's Compendium Volume 3 Gardening with The Senses" is now out! Photo Credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 407.916.5400, 1.888.45.LAWNS, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #podcast #radio #southflorida #northflorida #betterlawns #centralflorida #tropical #June #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #trees #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #summer #WRLN #WiOD

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #2 – Gardening experts Tom MacCubbin and Teresa Watkins wish Lance Walheim, garden author and BioAdvanced spokesman, a happy Father’s Day. Lance advises how to take care of mealy bugs and chinch bugs. Garden topics, questions, and texts include bark peeling on crapemyrtles, strawberries, figs, planting sweet potatoes, marigolds, muscadine grapes, lemon and lime citrus, lychee tree, powdery mildew in crapemyrtles, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Tom MacCubbin’s Must Have Gardening Books for Florida gardeners! Teresa's latest book, "A Gardener's Compendium Volume 3 Gardening with The Senses" is now out! Photo Credit: UF IFAS Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 407.916.5400, 1.888.45.LAWNS, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #podcast #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #landscaping #fruits #trees #landscapes #gardens #palms #Orlando #Miami #FortLauderdale #PortStLucie #summer #WRLN #WiOD

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #1 – Gardening experts Tom MacCubbin and Teresa Watkins discuss beautiful crapemyrtles and delicious mangoes with Dan Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists. Garden topics, questions, and texts include persimmons, leafminers, crapemyrtles not blooming, lawn fungicides, mushrooms, tropical cuttings, how long does it take pineapples to ripen, which is more frost-tolerant: hibiscus or Firespikes, fig trees, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Tom MacCubbin’s Must Have Gardening Books for Florida gardeners! Teresa's latest book, "A Gardener's Compendium Volume 3 Gardening with The Senses" is now out! Photo Credit: eXtension.org Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 407.916.5400, 1.888.45.LAWNS, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #podcast #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #landscaping #fruits #trees #drought #landscapes #gardens #palms #Orlando #Miami #FortLauderdale #PortStLucie #summer #WRLN #WiOD

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #2 – Gardening experts Teresa Watkins and Tom MacCubbin prepare to battle mosquitos with the help of Randy Schultz, Home Garden and Homestead. Garden topics, questions, and texts include, Queen palms, St. Augustine Lawns, Bermudagrass, wilting purple Crotons; Floratam, invasive wood ferns, getting rid of fleas in the lawn, Bolivian sunflowers, powdery mildew in crapemyrtles, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2Summit Mosquito Bits and Dunks Teresa's third book, "A Gardener's Compendium Volume 3 Gardening with The Senses" is now out! Photo Credit: Teresa Watkins, Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 407.916.5400, 1.888.45.LAWNS, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #podcast #radio #southflorida #northflorida #betterlawns #centralflorida #tropical #May #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #Summer #landscaping #fruits #trees #drought #landscapes #gardens #palms #Orlando #Miami #FortLauderdale #PortStLucie #BLGradio #mosquitos #watergardens #gutters #homegardenhomestead #WRLN #WiOD

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #1 – Gardening experts Tom MacCubbin and Teresa Watkins are joined by Ed Thralls, Orange County Extension agent on summertime heat and how it is affecting our landscapes. Garden topics, questions, and texts include dog-friendly cities, moonflowers, frogs and toads, palm trees, armadillos, how to tell when a pineapple is ripe, strangler fig, avocado, corn problems, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Teresa's third book, "A Gardener's Compendium Volume 3 Gardening with The Senses" is now out! Photo Credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 407.916.5400, 1.888.45.LAWNS, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #podcast #radio #southflorida #northflorida #betterlawns #centralflorida #tropical #May #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #trees #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #summer #dogfriendly

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #2 – Gardening experts Teresa Watkins and Tom MacCubbin discuss the meaning of drought-tolerance and how to achieve it in the landscape. Garden topics, questions, and texts include, gardenias turning yellow, bahiagrass seed, firespike, Hercules Club, getting rid of torpedo grass and colocasia, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2 Teresa's third book, "A Gardener's Compendium Volume 3 Gardening with The Senses" is now out! Photo Credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 407.916.5400, 1.888.45.LAWNS, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #podcast #radio #southflorida #northflorida #betterlawns #centralflorida #tropical #May #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #Summer #landscaping #fruits #trees #drought #landscapes #gardens #succulents #cacti #Containers #palms #Orlando #BLGradio #iHeart #iTunes

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour #1 – Gardening experts Tom MacCubbin and Teresa Watkins find out from Tina McIntyre how to create an inviting landscape for birds and wildlife. Garden topics, questions, and texts include sunflowers, getting rid of sedge, split-leaf philodendrons, can you mow lawns when wet, sweet potatoes, vinegar appropriate to use in garden, leaf-foot bugs, sago and scale, and more. https://bit.ly/3fr6SU2Teresa's third book, "A Gardener's Compendium Volume 3 Gardening with The Senses" is now out!Photo Credit: Teresa WatkinsListen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 407.916.5400, 1.888.45.LAWNS, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #podcast #radio #southflorida #northflorida #betterlawns #centralflorida #tropical #May #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #trees #Orlando #Sarasota #BLGradio #iHeart #iTunes #birds #wildlife #habitat