Ep. 91- Q&A Week- Blackberry, Rose Sawfly, and East Asian Joro Spider

This week, Nathan's back to answering your questions! David from Alabama asks about the best way to build a bed for blackberries and how to keep them disease-free and growing great! Nathan discusses a nemesis of roses known as the Rose

Ep. 89- Winterizing Houseplants, Trees for Wet and Dry Soil, and High Contrast Gardening

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

Ep. 88- Killing Bradford Pear, Empress Tree, and Chinaberry

Continuing the topic from the previous episode, Nathan describes some beautiful but terrible trees that have proven to be invasive species. Bradford Pear trees scatter across the south in our gardens, but now they are filling our woodlands

Ep. 87- Killing Kudzu, Privet, and English Ivy

Ep. 86- Tips for Fall Planting

Fall is THE BEST time for planting most plants in the south. But what's the best method for most success? Nathan takes you on a planting journey from turning that "nothing" landscape or bed into something beautiful! From clearing weeds,

Ep. 82- Melania Trump's Renovated Rose Garden and 5 Steps to Creating Your Own

This week Nathan discusses how older gardens require renovation and how to start your own rose garden! First Lady Melania Trump recently renovated the White House Rose Garden and received a lot of negative feed back. Politics aside, gardens

Ep. 71- Buttonbush, Weeds in Liriope, and Best Watering Practices

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

Ep. 70- Shasta Daisy, Slugs and Snails, Mummy Berry, and Poison Ivy

Another week of garden problems but Nathan's got solutions for you! After describing a classic but irresistible perennial plant called Shasta Daisy, Nathan jumps to the mailbag and answers questions concerning everything from dealing

Ep. 69- Q&A Week Agapanthus, Hedges, Weeding, Fireblight, and Wildflower Meadows

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

Ep. 66- Mother's Day, Bermuda Lawn, Dead Branches, Dividing Iris, Pruning Azalea, and Mountain Laurel

Happy Mother's Day! Plants make great gifts so be sure to stop in at a local plant nursery for great options! This week we answer more of your questions from topics as diverse as Bermuda lawn to Mountain Laurel! Nathan also discusses

Ep. 64- Q&A- Moving Peonies, Tree Damage, Cedar-Apple Rust, Azalea Leaf Gall

Another glorious spring episode to answer your gardening questions! This week, Nathan helps Jayne with making a big move from near Canada to Central Florida! She wants to take with her her mother's peonies that were planted in 1952

Flowers., Fruit Trees, Pesticides, Plant Disease, Plants, Podcast, Q&A, TechniquesNathan WilsonApril 25, 2020plants, diseases, disease, peonies, apple, cedar, rust, azalea, gall, damage, treeComment

Ep. 63- Improving Soil, Planting Tomatoes, Azalea Lacebug, and Summerizing Houseplants

This week Nathan tackles a few topics that will make your garden the best it's ever been! He starts by going on a garden rant about builders and their "good dirt".--which isn't very good for gardening. Nathan tells you different ways to improve

Ep. 62- Bonus Q&A Week- Landscape Design, House Plants, Soil pH, and Peonies

Things are growing- which means, you've got plenty of gardening questions that need answering! So this week we do just that! Should you hire a landscape architect to design your garden or just work on it yourself? Nathan explains the pros and

Ep. 52- January Q&A Week

Every month we get answers for your gardening questions! This month, Nathan answers questions from a variety of topics. Kimberly wonders how to get rid of moles (don't we all). David wants to save money on buying plants (don't we all) by dividing his existing perennials. Molly thinks she wants to plant a tree in a container while Jim's got a weed problem (don't we all). Lastly, Karen wants to be sure she's pruning her hydrangea at the right time of year! It's a doozy of a show filled with gardening fun. Submit your question for the next Q&A here.

Ep. 38- How to Grow Fruit Part Three

If you want the best fruits you've ever grown, be sure to listen to this episode! This third installment of "How to Grow Fruit", touches on topics like chilling hours, pruning and training, and controlling diseases in fruit plants. Don't plant those fruit trees, shrubs, and vines before you heed Nathan's advice!

Fruit Trees, Pesticides, Plants, Podcast, Pruning, TechniquesNathan WilsonOctober 5, 2019fruits, fruit tree, apple, peach, pear, nectarine, disease, fungus, bacteria, virus, sanitation, pruning, trainingComment

Ep. 27- Top 10 Organic Pest Controls- Part 2

Nathan's favorite organic and natural Bonide pesticides are back in this second episode on the topic. He ventures into the world of biological warfare with bacteria bombs, journeys to the bottom of the ocean to find microscopic creatures that ravage insects, and extracts a natural chemical from bacterium that puts bugs out of their minds! Nature battling nature is the most intense war you will ever experience. Now, let's finish this!

Plants, Podcast, Pesticides, Vegetable GardeningNathan WilsonJuly 13, 2019organic, pesticides, pesticide, control, bug, insect, disease, fungus, bacteria, Bt, spinosid, diatomsComment

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