Better Lawns & Gardens

Better Lawns & Gardens

Florida's foremost gardening podcast by gardening expert and professional designer, Teresa Watkins!

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August 1, 2026 39 mins
Landscape designer and garden expert Teresa Watkins welcomes Dana Venrick of Quality Green Specialist Nursery for a discussion on planting edible shrubs and fruit trees to plant in August.  Teresa’s Top Five (But Not Favorite) common tomato issues and answers listeners’ gardening questions.

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What you should be doing in you yard. Teresa's Dirty Word of the Day.

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July 25, 2026 39 mins
Teresa's Top Five Favorite Garden Art at the Buffalo Garden Tour. What to plant for August.

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July 18, 2026 39 mins
Tom MacCubbin Dirty Word of the Day - Nitrogen. Special Guest Roi Levin with Environmental Pest & Lawn Services. Roi explains what to do about Chinch bug problems.

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July 18, 2026 39 mins
Tom MacCubbin Starting your garden for the fall. What seeds to plant so they are ready for transplants in 4 weeks.

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July 11, 2026 39 mins
Landscape designer, garden expert, and host Teresa Watkins explains the benefits of Saharan Desert dust and features “oligotrophic” as the Dirty Word of the Day. She also discusses winter-damaged Royal Poinciana trees, bottlebrushes with root problems, and what to do in your landscape this July, and more.

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Landscape designer, garden expert, and host Teresa Watkins welcomes Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialist Nursery in DeLand, for tips on easing summer landscape stress and keeping plants healthy. Teresa also shares her Top Five heat-tolerant zinnia varieties—ideal for containers, landscapes, and meadows—answers summertime gardening questions, and explains what to plant in your landscape this July.

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Garden expert Teresa Watkins is joined by Dr. Bryan Unruh, UF/IFAS West Florida Research and Education Center. Dr. Unruh provides benefits of soil testing annually. Teresa answers gardening questions on timing of apple trees, propagating Dracaena arboreas, Gerbera daisy not blooming, , Dirty Word of the Day is naturalized, pruning leggy azaleas, and more.

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Garden expert, Teresa Watkins discusses June maintenance for citrus with our sponsor Dana Venrick, Quality Green Specialist Nursery, including foliar feeding to help citrus trees resist citrus greening. Teresa discusses her recent garden tour of the Best of English gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show, reblooming daylilies, repotting Australian Tree Fern or plant it, Dracena pups, and oyster plant decline, and more.

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Landscape designer, garden expert, and host Teresa Watkins gets an early start on Independence Day by quizzing producer Lizzie Steele on patriotic gardening trivia. The Dirty Word of the Day is “Solarization vs. Occultation.” Teresa also answers callers’ gardening questions and responds to text messages.

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June 27, 2026 39 mins
Garden expert and host Teresa Watkins discusses upcoming rain relief for extremely dry landscape conditions. Teresa shares how much rain Florida will need to replenish the Aquifer. She covers June’s second full moon, known as the Full Gator Moon; shares July backyard gardening tips; highlights her Top Five Patriotic Gardeners; and answers summer gardening questions.

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Tom MacCubbin and producer Lizzie Steele explore the joys and challenges of summer gardening, including growing vegetables and flowers and the inevitable pests that come. Tom also shares his Top Five shrubs that avoided winter damage last year and answers listener gardening questions.

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Better Lawns and Gardens host emeritus Tom MacCubbin talks with garden writer and landscape expert, Lance Walheim, about his newly revised Citrus: A Gardeners’ & Fruit Lovers’ Guide. Lance has great news for homeowners who want to grow citrus. Tom’s Dirty Word of the Day is “aphid,” and answers a garden variety of questions.

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Tom MacCubbin's Dirty Word of the Day – Aphid. How to identify them & control them with Insecticidal soaps. Special Guest Lance Walheim Author of Citrus: A Gardeners’ & Fruit Lovers’ Guide. July chores to do in the garden. Think about adding Joseph's Coat to your landscape.

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Tom MacCubbin's Top Five shrubs that survived the cold. A Florida update on greening disease of citrus. Getting ready to plant seeds of tomatoes, peppers and eggplant in mid July to have transplants by mid August.

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June 13, 2026 39 mins
Teresa's Dirty Word of the Day "Surfactant". Heather Stickney from Summit Responsible Solutions, sponsor of the show, discuss Mosquito Bites & Dunks.

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June 13, 2026 39 mins
What to plant mid-June. Teresa's Top Five Beach Tolerant. Teresa answers your questions on Moss Roses in a pot, watermelons, HOA grass problems, planting in pots, pruning your blueberries & more.

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June 6, 2026 39 mins
Horticulturist and landscape designer Teresa Watkins hosts Better Lawns and Gardens, Florida’s most popular gardening radio show. Her guest today is the president of the Manatee River Garden Club, who discusses how to celebrate National Gardening Week through “Random Acts of Gardening.” The “Dirty Word of the Day” is “Sucker.” Teresa also answers listener landscaping and gardening questions...

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June 6, 2026 41 mins
Garden expert and host of Better Lawns and Gardens, Teresa Watkins forecasts excellent gardening weather and is joined by our sponsor Dana Venrick to discuss the upcoming Father’s Day gift ideas from Quality Green Specialists Nursery. Teresa’s Top Five is recommendations for Father’s Day Gifts. She also answers listener calls and texts, shares what to plant in June, and more

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Horticulturist and landscape designer, and owner of Art in Bloom Garden Tours, Teresa Watkins hosts Better Lawns and Gardens, Florida’s leading gardening radio show. She shares favorite gardens, vendors, and new plants from the 2026 Chelsea Flower Show, introduces the Dirty Word of the Day, “tapestry lawn,” and answers listeners’ landscaping and gardening questions.

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