
Garden Success with Stephen Brueggerhoff
KAMU Studios
Show overview
Garden Success with Stephen Brueggerhoff has been publishing since 2021, and across the 5 years since has built a catalogue of 229 episodes. That works out to roughly 220 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 58 min and 59 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Leisure show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 1 weeks ago, with 19 episodes already out so far this year. Published by KAMU Studios.
From the publisher
Garden Success with Stephen Brueggerhoff is a call-in gardening show airing each Thursday from noon to 1:00pm on KAMU-FM. Stephen, an extension specialist in horticulture at Texas A&M Agrilife, serves as your garden consultant, answering questions to help you grow a bountiful garden and beautiful landscape in the Brazos Valley. Stephen will give you time-saving tips, guide you to the best plants selections and provide proven pest management strategies including both conventional and organic techniques.
Latest Episodes
View all 229 episodesGarden Success – 5/7/2026: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Garden Success – 4/30/2026: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Garden Success – 4/23/2026: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Garden Success – 4/16/2026: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Garden Success – 4/9/2026: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses Texas Mountain Laurel pruning, listener plant identification, suggestions for perennials that bloom in shade, butterfly weed, upcoming local events, prescribed burns, and increasing biodiversity in the landscape.
Garden Success – 4/2/2026: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses today's rain, truffles, tallow trees, Louisiana Iris, upcoming local events, a caller's tomato that's smaller than expected, and Knockout Roses.
Garden Success – 3/26/2026: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses the lack of rain in the forecast, BV Water Smart, tips on resetting a lawn, paper wasps, lawn fertilization, using extra-strength vinegar as an herbicide, redbuds, pet-safe lawn weed treatment, root washing, upcoming local events, hollies, and barometer bush.
Garden Success – 3/19/2026: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses how his tomatoes and potatoes fared in the recent frost, how to tell if a caller's Vitex plant survived the frost, a caller asking if Rhubarb can be grown in the Brazos Valley, a tomato plant with yellowing leaves, where to find local gardening interest groups, potential ground cover for an area with direct sun, upcoming local events, and Chili Pequin plants.
Garden Success – 3/12/2026: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses tomatoes, likelihood of a late frost, tips for pruning ornamental trees, whether it is too late to plant broccoli, mustard or lettuce, flowering basil, upcoming local events, bridal wreath, where to find research-based information, shade-tolerant grasses, cultivating corn, and privacy hedge plants.
Garden Success – 3/5/2026: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses forecasted rain, his tomato plants, Leaf-Footed bugs, wildflowers, Mexican Plum, Lawn pre-emergent herbicide, BV Water Smart, an update to last week's caller asking about privacy plants, and upcoming local events.
Garden Success – 2/26/2026: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses the current drought, salvias, ornamental plant suggestions for a caller, pruning roses, fig trees, green beans, suggestions for a caller wanting privacy landscaping, and upcoming local events.
Garden Success – 2/19/2026: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses the recent weather and odds of a future freeze, info on selecting trees from the Texas Forest Service, tree cultivation tips, preparing for planting potatoes, rose cultivation, and upcoming local events.
Garden Success – 2/12/2026: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Garden Success – 2/5/2026: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses upcoming weather, the expected last frost date & false spring, holding off on pruning plants for spring, Lantana, pre-emergent herbicide, Mexican Petunia, upcoming local events, potatoes, and the Leach Teaching Gardens.
Garden Success – 1/29/2026: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses the status of his freeze-protected plants, the upcoming weekend's forecasted freeze, lemon verbena, lemongrass, upcoming local events, advice in response to a listener's email about potential house damage from a large tree, and sooty mold on leaves.
Garden Success – 1/22/2026: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses protecting plants before this upcoming weekend's freezing weather, when to plant Amaryllis bulbs, carrots, Marigolds as a trap crop, upcoming local events, and watering needs for ornamental plants during this dry winter.
Garden Success – 1/15/2026: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses his flowering stone fruit trees, when to prune fruit trees, upcoming local events, lawn watering tips, tree transplanting, identification of a listener's rose plant, & moles, voles, and gophers.
Garden Success – 1/8/2026: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses the recent heavy fog, his holiday home irrigation maintenance, tomatoes in depth, different types of potting media, upcoming local events, and a listener's question about which type of tree to plant in her Bryan yard.
Garden Success – 1/1/2026: Spring Gardening & Figs
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses spring garden planning, figs in-depth, and upcoming local programs.
Garden Success – 12/25/2025: Poinsettias & Christmas Cactus
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses holiday celebrations, preparing plants for winter weather, upcoming local events, tomatoes, and Christmas Cactus and Poinsettias in depth.