
Better Lawns and Gardens
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S2 Ep 290S2 Ep290: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Best of Experience Memphis Gardens 2024 May 25, 2024
BEST OF BETTER LAWNS AND GARDENS 2024 - Memorial Day WeekendBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host Teresa Watkins discusses the Experience Memphis Gardens with founder, Kim Halyak; the exciting garden tours are open May 18th -May 30th. The Dirty Word of the Day is Dehiscence. Garden questions include suggestions for privacy hedges, weedy Bahia lawn, declining potted plants; Royal Poinciana bark wounds; guava tree not recovering from freezes; bulbs will they grow, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7Photo and graphic credit: Teresa Watkins, Experience Memphis Gardens Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 290S2 Ep290: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Best of Memorial Day May 25, 2024
BEST OF BETTER LAWNS AND GARDENS - MEMORIAL DAY Holiday weekendBetter Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Gardening expert Teresa Watkins remembers the history of Memorial Day and responds to the overflow of text messages asking garden questions. Gardening calls and texts include strong winds during storm, thriving peppers and tomatoes in the heat, when to fertilize, twenty-year-old declining grapefruit tree, avocado with two trunks, getting rid of moles, and more! https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Graphic 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 #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #gardentours #travel

S2 Ep 289S2 Ep289: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Albertus Cottage Sisterhood & Service Project May 18, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert and host, Teresa Watkins gets update on producer Lizzie Steele’s bonding with her turkey poults. Teresa is thrilled to have Leah Brooks on to announce her service group, Village Improvement Association’s new grant from the Florida Wildflower Foundation, to improve Orange City’s Albertus Cottage landscape. The Dirty Word of the Day is Avocado Pear. Garden questions birds bothering cherry tomato, deadheading Mealycup sage, Gerbera daisy annual or perennial, beware smart when purchasing online and out of state plants, are my Drift roses declining, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7 Teresa’s monthly newsletter “In Your Backyard.” Check it out! Want to travel with Teresa on her garden tours? Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Come join Teresa and garden enthusiasts on a future garden tour. Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins, Village Improvement Assocation Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #podcast #syndicated #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 289S2 Ep289: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Reduce Your Lawn Day May 18, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert and host, Teresa Watkins discusses the first annual “Reduce Your Lawn” Day with creator Kathy Jentz. Collaborating with American Meadows, Kathy details the easy steps to create smaller yards and lower maintenance and water use to have a more beautiful landscape. Garden topics and questions on Key lime leaf miner, should I cut back milkweed, mulch depth; too late for crabgrass; how to minimize damage from too much fertilizer, how to help a cactus that fell over, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Groundcover RevolutionTeresa’s monthly newsletter “In Your Backyard.” Check it out! Garden questions and topics include and more.Washington Gardener Magazine and GardenDC podcastWant to travel with Teresa on her garden tours? Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Come join Teresa and garden enthusiasts on a future garden tour. Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins, American MeadowsListen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #podcast #syndicated #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 288S2 Ep288: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Exotic Tropical Fruit Trees May 11, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Happy Mother’s Day to Lizzie and Teresa. Living in Florida is ideal for growing your own exotic tropical fruit trees. Teresa chats with Jeff Wasielewski, Miami-Dade Commercial Tropical Fruit agent about his five favorite rare tropical fruit trees. The Dirty Word of the Day is inspired by Mother’s Day – Mother Plant. Garden questions amaryllis seeds, native pawpaw, propagating pentas andt gardenias from cuttings, lychee trees, jackfruit, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7 Want to travel with Teresa on her garden tours? Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Come join Teresa and garden enthusiasts on a future garden tour. Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins, Wikipedia, UF Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #podcast #syndicated #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 288S2 Ep288: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Designing Public Parks - May 11, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. In honor of National Public Parks week, Teresa interviews Florida resident, Tres Fromme, 3 Fromme Designs, who has designed many of the major public gardens in the United States. Teresa’s relaunching her monthly newsletter “In Your Backyard.” It's free - no spam. Check it out! Garden questions and topics include best varieties of olive trees to grow in Florida, what to do in the month of May, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for all our tours in 2025 ! Come join Teresa and garden enthusiasts on a magical trips to the country’s best private and public gardens and around the world. Photo and graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 287S2 Ep287: Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 Don't Rip Out Native Milkweed! May 4, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Should you rip out the non-native and native milkweed out of your landscape? Teresa interviews Joyce Samsel, director of the Florida Monarch Research and Education Project 501c3 to find out what butterfly gardeners need to do. The Dirty Word of the Day is hesperidium. Garden questions include deer-chewed leaves of tomato recovery, weeping hibiscus growing straight up, rain lilies in St. Augustine grass, best time to transplant agapanthus, kumquat tree not fruiting, difference between blood meal and bone meal, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7 Want to travel with Teresa on her garden tours? Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Come join Teresa and garden enthusiasts on a future garden tour. Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins, Mary Klein, Peg Urban. Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #podcast #syndicated #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 287S2 Ep287: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 May - Last Chance to Fertilize May 4, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Teresa and Lizzie discuss the holidays of World Naked Gardening Day and May the 4th Be With You, Star Wars reference. The May newsletter, “In Your Backyard” is out! The monthly publication is free and helps with what to do in your landscape, design tips, and more. Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists Nursery, and sponsor of Better Lawns and Gardens talks with Teresa about the importance of fertilizing before the summer bans start, Garden questions and topics include struggling squash, getting rid of native muscadine grapes, late start on tomatoes, eggplants, and pepper, cherry tomatoes, curling kumquat leaves, how low to mow Zoysiagrass, what to plant in dog kennel, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Want to travel with Teresa on her garden tours? Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Come join Teresa and garden enthusiasts on a future garden tour. Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins, Mary Klein, Peg Urban.Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #podcast #syndicated #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 285S2 Ep285: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 World Carnivorous Plant Day - April 27, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. To celebrate International Carnivorous Plant Day May 1st, Teresa interviews Kenny Coogan, Educational Director of the International Carnivorous Plant Society. Drought conditions start to increase as no rain in forecast. Garden questions and topics include Meadow beauty, magnolia decline and scale, Black and White Sapote, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Graphic credit: International Carnivorous Plant SocietyWant to travel with Teresa on her garden tours? Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Come join Teresa and garden enthusiasts on a future garden tour. Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #podcast #syndicated #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 286S2 Ep286: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Southern Peas - April 27, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, The Dirty Word of the Day is glochid. Better Lawns and Gardens Host emeritus, Tom MacCubbin joins Teresa Watkins to discuss his vegetable garden. Tom and Teresa talk about Southern peas, the differences between varieties, Tom’s favorite Southern peas, and how to grow them. Garden questions include eradicating weeds under an avocado, pumpkins falling off vine, tea roses, should you use distilled water on Calatheas, is burying fish in garden a good idea, leaves falling off mangos, best method to remove cacti hairs, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7 Want to travel with Teresa on her garden tours? Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Come join Teresa and garden enthusiasts on a future garden tour. Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins, Tom MacCubbin Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #podcast #syndicated #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 284S2 Ep284: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Gardening with Herbs for Health, Wellness, Cooking, and Crafts, April 20, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host Teresa Watkins interviews Square-Foot Gardening expert and author, Kim Roman about Growing Herbs for Health, Wellness, Cooking, and Crafts. Dirty Word of the Day is Frugivore. Garden questions include papaya, cherry tomatoes, fast-growing shade trees, fresh tomato seeds vs. store-bought seeds, how to get rid of lubbers, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7 Want to travel with Teresa on her garden tours? Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Come join Teresa and garden enthusiasts on a future garden tour. Sign up for the newsletter! Be the first to know! Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins, Kim Roman Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #podcast #syndicated #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 284S2 Ep284: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Little Red Wagon Native Nursery April 20, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Gardens are growing! Garden host Teresa Watkins admires producer @LizzieSaidWhatRocks‘s pumpkin and vegetable garden. Teresa speaks with the director of the Tampa Bay Butterfly Foundation and owner of the Little Red Wagon Native Nursery, Anita Camacho about creating a native butterfly garden, her favorite native plants, and attracting birds. Garden questions and topics include Brevard County Tropical Fruit Festival, butterflies, native plants, oak trees, golden rain tree bugs, photos of avocado, orchids, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Want to travel with Teresa on her garden tours? Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Come join Teresa and garden enthusiasts on a future garden tour. Sign up for the newsletter! Be the first to know! Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins, Little Red Wagon Native Nursery, NABA, IBAES, Tampa Bay Butterfly Foundation Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #podcast #syndicated #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 283S2 Ep283: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Adaptive Gardening April 13, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins provides her cottage garden favorites, Dirty Word of the Day is Pyrophyte. Randy Schultz, editor of Home Garden and Homestead discusses ‘Adaptive Gardening’ for senior citizens. Garden questions include double blackberry fruit, pruning Autograph Plant hedge; azalea fertilizer, getting rid of native Smilax vine, and lubber grasshoppers, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7Want to travel with Teresa on her garden tours? Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Come join Teresa and garden enthusiasts on a future garden tour. Sign up for the newsletter! Be the first to know! Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins, Home Garden and Homestead.Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #podcast #syndicated #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 283S2 Ep283: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Your Garden Questions April 13, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. #NationalGardeningMonth continues as Teresa answers the most recent gardening questions Teresa provides upcoming Chamber of Commerce weather and Lizzie talks about her latest endeavors in the her landscape. Garden questions and topics include how to root Giant Milkweed, what to plant in a memorial urn, peaches, National Peach Cobbler Day, how to get larger pineapples, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Want to travel with Teresa on her garden tours? Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Come join Teresa and garden enthusiasts on a future garden tour. Sign up for the newsletter! Be the first to know! Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins, Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #podcast #syndicated #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 282S2 Ep282: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Heritage Cottage Urban Nano Farm and Pepper Seeds April 6, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins expounds on the eclipse with the Dirty Word of the Day, Photosynthesis. Dr. Gary Bachman, and the Heritage Cottage Urban Nano Farm announces his new pepper endeavours and selling rare and unusual pepper seeds. Garden questions include dwarf cherty and Everglade tomatoes, Encore azaleas, schefflera hedges, porterweed and native milkweed, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7Want to travel with Teresa on her garden tours? Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Come join Teresa and garden enthusiasts on a future garden tour. Sign up for the newsletter! Be the first to know! Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins, Gary BachmanListen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 282S2 Ep282: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Fruit and Native Trees for Spring April 6, 2024
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! Starting this week, Better Lawns and Gardens will drop their podcast every Monday at 9am. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts so you don't miss an episode! Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. The solar eclipse phenomena has gripped the nation! Garden expert Teresa Watkins and producer Lizzie Steele has a special warning for all gardeners! Teresa discusses the effects the solar eclipse of 2024 will have on plants. Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists Nursery, the best native nursery in the area, provides a list of the natives and fruit trees at the Nursery. Teresa updates on what to do in your landscape for April. Garden questions and topics include amaryllis, getting rid of lubber grasshoppers, wildflower species blooming, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Want to travel with Teresa on her garden tours? Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Come join Teresa and garden enthusiasts on a future garden tour. Sign up for the newslettes! Be the first to know! Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins, Wikimedia Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #gardentours #artinbloom #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 281S2 Ep281: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Garden Myths and April Fool's Pranks March 30, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host Teresa Watkins takes advantage of the pre-weekend April Fool’s Day to discuss April Fool’s Day pranks, garden myths. The Dirty Word of the Day is Chinch Bug Eggs. Garden questions include tea olives, how to transplant crotons, help for soil mixed with herbicide, how to trim crapemyrtles correctly, how to get rid of spider mites, propagating Esperanza, planting hydrangea and pink azalea outside, septic tank plantings, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7Want to travel with Teresa on her garden tours? Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Come join Teresa and garden enthusiasts on a future garden tour. Sign up for the newslettes! Be the first to know! Graphic credit: Teresa WatkinsListen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 281S2 Ep281: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 April is Water Conservation March 30, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert Teresa Watkins’ guest is Tina McIntyre, UF/IFAS Seminole County Florida-friendly Landscaping agent. Tina provides updates on smart irrigation technology, and tips on how to conserve water in the landscape. Easter weekend, Teresa discusses new study on eggs, frog eggs. Garden questions and topics include turf fertilizer for acreage, Everglades tomatoes, Lizzie’s Bourbon Red Turkeys and raising chickens, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Graphic credit: Teresa WatkinsListen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 280S2 Ep280: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 No Mow May? March 23, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden Expert Teresa Watkins is joined by award-winning landscape architect, Benjamin Vogt, author of Prairie Up. Benjamin discusses the pros and cons of No Mow May. The Dirty Word of the Day is Cauliflory. Garden questions include how to get rid of crabgrass, keeping lychee fruit safe, what’s growing on my Christmas Cactus, listeners send in their photos of gorgeous amaryllis blooming, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Come join Teresa and garden enthusiasts on a magical trip to beautiful gardens around the world.Photo and graphic credit: Teresa Watkins, Benjamin VogtListen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 280S2 Ep280: Better Lawns and Gardens Pesticides Dirty Dozen March 23, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert Teresa Watkins discusses pesticide use on fruits and vegetables. UF/IFAS Lake County Extension Agent Brooke Moffis promotes the Master Gardener Plant Sale. Garden questions and topics include types of Asian beans that will grow in Central Florida; the Florida Wildflower and Garden Festival, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Come join Teresa and garden enthusiasts on a magical trip to beautiful gardens around the world. Photo and graphic credit: Teresa Watkins, Wikimedia Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 279S2 Ep279: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Kim Halyak Experience Memphis Gardens March 16, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host Teresa Watkins discusses the Experience Memphis Gardens with founder, Kim Halyak; the exciting garden tours are open May 18th -May 30th. The Dirty Word of the Day is Dehiscence. Garden questions include suggestions for privacy hedges, weedy Bahia lawn, declining potted plants; Royal Poinciana bark wounds; guava tree not recovering from freezes; bulbs will they grow, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7Only two spaces available on Teresa's "50 Shades of Green' Ireland Tour July 6 - July 14, 2024. Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Come join Teresa and garden enthusiasts on a magical trip to the Emerald Isle! Photo and graphic credit: Teresa Watkins, Experience Memphis Gardens Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 279S2 Ep279: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Katie Dubow Spring Superstars March 16, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert Teresa Watkins interviews Katie Dubow, president of Garden Media Group on Spring Superstars. Katie announces new roses for the landscape and a new product called Oasis Foraging Kit for beginning and experienced floral designers. Garden questions and topics include deterrents for squirrels and chipmunks, fruit trees not producing, lubber grasshoppers, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Only two spaces available on Teresa's "50 Shades of Green' Ireland Tour July 6 - July 14, 2024. Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Come join Teresa and garden enthusiasts on a magical trip to the Emerald Isle! Photo and graphic credit: Teresa Watkins, Knock Out™, Jackson and Perkins, Oasis ForagingListen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 278S2 Ep278: Better Lawns and Gardens Randy Schultz Spring Mosquitos March 9, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Host Teresa Watkins is joined by Randy Schultz, editor of award-winning Home Garden and Homestead, who is snow birding in Arizona. Randy discusses how the 2023-2024 winter has not reduced the risk of mosquitos and how to protect your yard. Coinciding with Daylight Savings Time, the Dirty Word of the Day is Photoperiodism. Garden questions include fertilizing a Poinciana tree, azaleas, varieties of okra to grow in Florida, pollen season, weed and feed for Bahiagrass, tibouchina browning, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7Only two spaces available on Teresa's "50 Shades of Green' Ireland Tour July 6 - July 14, 2024. Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Come join Teresa and garden enthusiasts on a magical trip to the Emerald Isle! Photo and graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 277S2 Ep277: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Brooke Moffis Oxalis Friend or Foe March 9, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Faith and Begonia! Shamrocks or Oxalis? Friend or Foe? Brooke Moffis, UF/IFAS explains the difference, varieties, and care, and how to get rid of Oxalis in your turf. Garden questions and topics include Nun’s Orchids, Queen’s Wreath, propagating ornamental sweet potato, varieties of okra, pollen season, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Photo and graphic credit: Teresa WatkinsListen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 276S2 Ep276: Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Gene McAvoy O'Vegetables March 2, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, The Irish holiday continues with O’vegetables! Teresa is joined by Gene McAvoy, UF/IFAS Hendry County Regional Specialized Vegetable /Horticulture Agent emeritus to talk about o’nions and o’kra. Dirty Word of the Day is Verge. Garden questions include: growing hydrangea, how to find a landscape designer, what goes down first – fertilizer or mulch, herbicide for perennial peanut, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7Only two spaces available on Teresa's "50 Shades of Green' Ireland Tour July 6 - July 14, 2024. Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Come join Teresa and garden enthusiasts on a magical trip to the Emerald Isle! Photo and graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 275S2 Ep275: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Dana Venrick O'Fruit Trees March 2, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Teresa is celebrating St. Patrick’s Day all month! Dana O’Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists Nursery discusses the many kinds of O’live trees that will grow in Florida and announces the upcoming Florida Wildflower Festival. Teresa found 'Choca Mocha' Cosmos and Lizzie brings up her stinging nettles and her trip to Peterson's Nursery in Lakeland. Garden questions and topics include how to get rid of beggar ticks, black vine weevils, and fire ants, March wraps up your Winter chores to transition your landscape into Spring. and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Photo and graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Only two spaces available on Teresa's "50 Shades of Green' Ireland Tour July 6 - July 14, 2024. Check out Art in Bloom Garden Tours for more information! Come join Teresa and garden enthusiasts on a magical trip to the Emerald Isle! Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 274S2 Ep274: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Felder Rushing and Garden Art February 24, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins is gob-smacked with one of her favorite garden experts, Felder Rushing. World-famous Felder and Teresa discuss his Mississippi “Gallimaufry” cottage garden, his eclectic bottle trees, and Felder’s philosophy of Slow Gardening. Garden questions include: lubber grasshopper season, powdery mildew, 14-year old avocado tree not producing, whiteflies, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7 Photo and graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 274S2 Ep274: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 National Floral Day, Invasive Species Week, and Your Garden Questions. Feb 24, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. February national awareness week on Invasive Plant Species, Feb 26th – March 3rd .Teresa gives the five biggest invasive trees to look for and remove. National Floral Design Day, February 28th celebrates the art of floral design. Teresa has her list of what to do in your March garden, and answers your garden questions. Garden questions and topics include the weather, where to plant an amaryllis, fertilizing turf, what is this orange vine”, weevil damage on Indian Hawthorn, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Photos and graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 273S2 Ep273: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Gardening Questions and More February 17, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins answers Spring gardening questions from callers, emails, and test messages. The Dirty Word of the Day is Parterre. Garden questions include: can you grow asparagus in Florida, Cabbage palm has yellow tips, spots on Lime Sizzler, when and how do you fertilize your lawn, struggling Giant Bird of Paradise, growing mint, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7Photo and graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 273S2 Ep273: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Aaron Boyar Garden Expo 2024 Spring Flowering Trees February 17, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Spring is in the air. Spring-flowering trees and colorful migrating birds are popular sights. Teresa is joined by Aaron Boyar, Seminole Master Gardener and spokesman for the Seminole County Garden Expo 2024 on February 24th. Garden questions and topics include irrigation shut-off devices, avocados, still time for onions, on lawns, vegetables to plant in February, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Photo and graphic credit: Teresa WatkinsListen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 272S2 Ep272: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Derek Haynes The Chocolate Botanist February 10, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins clarifies a garden question front the first hour. In honor of the upcoming Valentine’s Day holiday, Teresa lists garden flowers and plants that have a chocolate flavor or chocolate color. Teresa invites Derek Haynes, The Chocolate Botanist to chat about his botanical work, his goals of encouraging young black students to beomce scientists, and the language of love using flowers on Valentine’s Day. The Dirty Word of the Day is Dichogamy. Garden questions include: how to find a certified arborist, when and how to prune, the significance of diagonal cutting technique, how to get rid of black mold on a citrus tree, what is causing an avocado sapling to keep losing its leaves, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7Photo and graphic credit: Teresa Watkins, Derek Haynes Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 272S2 Ep272: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Pam Knox Wind Chill February 10, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Teresa welcomes Lizzie back and is joined by Pam Knox, Director of the University of Georgia Weather Network and Agricultural Climatologist. Pam discusses the difference between weather and climate, El Niño and La Niña, facts about wind chill and if it affects plants. Pam's website and blog "On the Case" Climate and Agriculture in the Southeast. Garden questions include getting rid of blackbirds, what is the blue chemical sprayed on lawns, vegetables to plant in February, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 The Global Wind Map Windy.com Current USA Wind Map Photo and graphic credit: Teresa Watkins, UGA Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 271S2 Ep271: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Dr. Rachel Mallinger Florida Native Bees
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins, with guest host Dr. Gary Bachman, talk with Dr. Rachel Mallinger, UF/IFAS, about the current health of bee species and Florida native bees. The Dirty Word of the Day is Polyphyetic. Garden questions include: Earthboxes, trimming pencil cactus, is my Christmas Cactus blooming now? https://bit.ly3c1f5x7Photo and graphic credit: Teresa Watkins, Rachel Mallinger.Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 271S2 Ep271: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Dr. Gary Bachman Earthboxes and Monarchs February 3, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Dr. Gary Bachman author of Southern Gardening All Year Round, joins Teresa Watkins in the studio! Gary’s expertise is growing vegetables in Earthbox, his own raised beds’ soil philosophy, and using Earthboxes in the coastal South. Teresa and Gary discuss his favorite vegetable seeds, Monarch butterfly disease, OE. Garden questions include growing pomegranates in Florida, getting rid of oxalis, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Gary’s Book: Southern Gardening All Year Long Photo and graphic credit: Teresa Watkins, Gary Bachman Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #Earthbox #Monarch #Butterfly

S2 Ep 270S2 Ep270: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Dr. Jeff Williamson Blueberries Planting Time January 27,2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins, talks with Dr. Jeff Williamson, UF IFAS Extension on planting and growing blueberries. The Dirty Word of the Day is Rabbiteye. Garden questions include: getting rid of clover in St. Augustine grass, what tree species to plant to provide nesting resources for birds, how to get rid of ants in pots, is my Dancy tangerine tree doing okay, how to plant a pot-bound plumeria, which is better: pine straw or pine mulch, amaryllis not blooming, poinsettias, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7 Photo and graphic credit: UF, Teresa Watkins, Wikimedia Common Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 270S2 Ep270: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Mark Peters Croton Nursery January 27, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert Teresa Watkins discusses the upcoming gardening weather, croton FAQs, and pruning time for ornamental grass is now. The guest interview is Mark Peters, owner of Peters Croton Nursery. Mark talks about the different croton varieties, care, and his upcoming 2024 Spring Show Schedule. Garden questions include lychee tree care, how to get rid of torpedo grass in beds, how to get rid of woodpeckers, is sand okay for St. Augustine grass bare spots, is it mold on Pygmy Date palm or cycad scale; and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Photos and graphic credit: Teresa Watkins, Peters Croton Nursery logo Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 269S2 Ep269: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Responsible Solutions Bill Stengel January 20, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins, talks with Bill Stengel, National Manager of Sales for Summit Responsible Solutions on organic pesticides like Year-Round Spray Oil for soft shell pests like Asian Cycad Scale, mosquitos, fleas, ticks, and fungus gnats. The Dirty Word of the Day is Saxicolous. Garden questions include: controlling weeds and weed barriers are not the answer, avocado tree roots, holes in raised bed soils, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7 Photo and graphic credit: Teresa Watkins, Summit Responsible Solutions Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 268S2 Ep268: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Tom MacCubbin Herbicide Update January 20, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Host Emeritus Tom MacCubbin joins Teresa to discuss the latest herbicide update on Roundup and the available herbicides to use on artillery fern and other weeds. Garden questions include yellowing foliage on hibiscus, herbicides, repositioning a 30-year old staghorn fern, Foxtail palms’ brown fronds, watering orchid before cold weather; cutting back crapemyrtles so close to house, does wind chill affect plants, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Photo and graphic credit: Teresa Watkins, Brooke Steele, Wikimedia CommonListen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 267S2 Ep267: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Kathy Jentz National Seed Swap Day January 13, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins, explains the Dirty Word of the Day. Kathy Jentz, award-winning garden author and creator of the National Seed Swap Day, January 27th explains how to attend and organize seed swap events in your neighborhood or organization. Garden questions include: indoor houseplant options; vegetables and herbs to plant in January, groundcover for dog yard, transplanting camellia, can Giant Milkweed be propagated, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7Photo and graphic credit: Teresa WatkinsListen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 267S2 Ep267: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Tina Tuttle Florida Federation of Garden Clubs January 13, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Garden expert, Teresa Watkins interviews Tina Tuttle, President of the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs on the 100th Anniversary of the organization. Teresa and Lizzie discuss what to do with the upcoming cold temperatures, reminds Floridians that winter is not over and to keep the frost blanket handy. Orlando Garden Club is having their 2024 Standard Flower Show with floral, and foliage displays, bonsai show, free and open to the public. Garden questions include listener ordering from Plant Delights Nursery, maintaining rain sensors, propagating African milkweed, and what to do in January in the garden. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic credit: Florida Federation of Garden Clubs, Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 266S2 Ep266: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Dr. Doug Daly Frankincense and Myrrh January 6, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Happy New Year! Teresa is joined by Dr. Doug Daly, senior curator of the New York Botanical Gardens. Dr. Daly describes the qualities of frankincense and myrrh and how it is produced. The Dirty Word of the Day is Chitting. Teresa finishes native plants to grow indoors, discusses crape murder and what kind of potatoes to plant in Florida. Garden questions include grass mildew, starting camellia cuttings, fertilizing a blooming orchid in winter, and how what to plant in January, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7Photo and graphic credit: Teresa Watkins, Daruch LuptonListen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 266S2 Ep266: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Dana Venrick Arbor Day January 6, 2024
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Happy New Year! Teresa and Lizzie are back with QualityGreenSpecialists owner, Dana Venrick. Dana provides important advice on celebrating Arbor Day by planting native trees. Dana talks about proper planting instructions, watering, and fertilizing trees. Teresa is excited her blueberries have turned red, best seed catalogs to order now, and what to do in the landscape during January. Garden questions include how to pot the ‘Mother of Thousands’, Kalanchoes, how close to a drain field to plant fruit trees, Florida native plants for indoors, and more. Graphic credit: Teresa WatkinsListen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 264S2 Ep264: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 What's Your Garden Plan for 2024? December 30, 2023
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Happy New Year from Teresa, Lizzie, and special host emeritus, Tom MacCubbin with a special show for the holidays. Segment 4 has Tom and Teresa discussing their garden goals for 2024 and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7 Photo and graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 265S2 Ep265: Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 - Art in Bloom Garden Tours December 30, 2023
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Happy New Year from Teresa, Lizzie, and special host emeritus, Tom MacCubbin with a special show for the holidays. Segment 3 features Teresa’ garden tours in 2024 and Tom and Joani’s garden tour memories, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7 Graphic: Teresa Watkins, Art in Bloom Garden Tours Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 264S2 Ep264: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Tom's Best Vegetable Selections for 2024 December 30, 2023
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Happy New Year from Teresa, Lizzie, and special host emeritus, Tom MacCubbin with a special show for the holidays. Segment 2 features Tom and his best selections of vegetables to plant in 2024, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7Graphic: Teresa WatkinsListen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 263S2 Ep263: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Dirty Words of the Day December 30, 2023
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Happy New Year from Teresa, Lizzie, and special host emeritus, Tom MacCubbin with a special show for the holidays. Segment 1 features the Dirty Words of the Day in 2023, and more. https://bit.ly3c1f5x7Graphic: Teresa WatkinsListen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 262S2 Ep262: Better Lawns and Gardens -Hour 1 Gardening Advances in 2023 December 30, 2023
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Happy New Year from Teresa, Lizzie, and special host emeritus, Tom MacCubbin. Segment 4 features Great gardening advances in 2023: UF Citrus greening studies on Citrus-greening resistant varieties, no fertilizing without soil tests. new UF SOILTest® kit, Available at every UF/IFAS County Extension office, Amazon, and on SoilTest website. Plus new varieties of plants, others to happen in 2023. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Sugar Belle information Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins, Sugar Belle Info #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 261S2 Ep261: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Best Garden Moments December 30, 2023
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Happy New Year from Teresa, Lizzie, and special host emeritus, Tom MacCubbin. Segment 3 features Teresa and Tom’s best garden moments for 2023. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

S2 Ep 260S2 Ep260: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 2024 Landscape Trends December 30, 2023
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Happy New Year from Teresa, Lizzie, and special host emeritus, Tom MacCubbin. Segment 2 features Teresa and Tom’s landscape trends for 2024. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Photographs and graphic: Teresa Watkins #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #NewYear #holiday #holidays #Landscape #landscaping #trends

S2 Ep 260S2 Ep260: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 1 Happy New Year! December 30, 2023
Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. Happy New Year from Teresa, Lizzie, and special host emeritus, Tom MacCubbin. Today’s show reflects on the past year and looking ahead to the future. Today's show is uploaded to 4 separate segments https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #NewYear #holiday #holidays