This week, Nathan helps you alleviate those pesky winter weeds...organically! From preventing them to eradicating them, he gives you several helpful options to getting rid of weeds. From pre-emergent options, like flame weeding and
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This week, Nathan encourages you to stop running to the shed for a pesticide when you have a plant problem and start growing organically. Through these ten practical steps, Nathan helps guide you to start growing more "green." By selecting appropriate plants, using
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This week, Nathan takes a look back at the people and practices of horticultural history. Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954) was a plantsman, gardener, agricultural college professor and dean, and a promoter of the rural lifestyle. Through his numerous
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Just like people, plants deal with diseases. This week, Nathan gives you a three step program to follow when controlling plant disease. Prevention is always the key!
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It's almost time to start fertilizing your garden babies! This week, Nathan gives you the scoop on the nutrient cycle, how plant nutrition actually cycles through animal life and back again. He also talks about the pros and cons to organic and commercial
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This week, Nathan continues his discussion on issues in the vegetable garden and how to prevent and deal with them. He revisits tomatoes and adds a few other favorites to the list! Let's get to growing great vegetables this year!
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Everybody likes new things! New cars, new houses, the list goes on and on. But we gardeners love new plants! This week, Nathan talks about new perennial plants from Proven Winners. His list includes, 'Firefly Amethyst' Achillea, 'Firefly Sunshine' Achillea,
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This week, Nathan continues the discussion on pruning your plants! He talks about the different types of pruning tools you might need for certain jobs and mentions some unusual pruning techniques you can use to add some drama to your landscape.
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With Christmas just a week away, Nathan gives you gift ideas for the gardener in your life...or for yourself! From tools to books and magazines to plants, there is surely something in this list that every gardener will love!
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This week Nathan answers your questions! Mary wonders if now is a good time to hard prune her evergreen shrubs. Scott has a worm issue on all of his vegetable plants. Alma has a banana tree that needs a new home. Leigh wonders if she can s
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Summer wears down both the gardener and the garden! After your beautiful plants from spring have bloomed at least once and dealt with Southern heat and humidity, they might begin to look a bit sad. Yellow, "wilty", or brown leaves
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Now that we are in the month of June, summer is just around the corner...and pests are lurking right behind it! Maybe you've already had some pest issues in the garden that need controlling, either way, Nathan is here to help! He discusses the basics
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This week on New Southern Garden, Nathan opens the mailbag and answers your questions! Kaitlyn from Winn Family Garden in North Carolina describes her process for Food Preservation in the Modern Age, Susie in Central Florida needs help deterring deer
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Merry Christmas from New Southern Garden! If you haven't already shopped for the gardener in your family, you don't have many days left to decide what to get! Don't worry. Nathan gives you plenty of Christmas gifts for gardeners on today's program.
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This week Nathan discusses the process of properly winterizing your houseplants before bringing them back into the house before temperatures drop below their preferred warmness. After some heavy rains in the south, we find areas in the
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Underappreciated and underused. That's the sad state of the color green in the garden. But not anymore! On this week's episode, Nathan reveals the power and drama that shades of green can provide in your landscape. He classifies these
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This week Nathan talks about native plants to help attract and maintain pollinators in your garden! Black-eyed Susans are well known but Nathan describes a couple that you might not have in your landscape, including one known as "Green-eyed Susan." The
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On this week's episode, Nathan helps you determine if your gardening soil has good drainage or poor drainage. A simple percolation test can help you discover how quickly (or slowly) water moves through your soil. Wet soil is usually
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This week, Nathan helps out with preparing your garden for drought! First up, he describes the awesomeness of the American Buttonbush which can be used and planted in standing water and wet soils. Penny has a question about ridding
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On this week's episode, we answer your questions! Nathan first discusses a really cool perennial plant known as Agapanthus, or African Lily. With it's blue, purple, or white globe shaped flowers atop a thin spike that emerges from the
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