Prune or Perish
from The Daily Grateful with Michael Crose Hosted by Michael Crose
Garden Geek Michael Crose returns for a gloriously unfiltered fall shrub tutorial that spirals into a scam-call showdown, a Beatles-vs-Beach-Boys debate, and his son Zack's one-track podocarpus obsession. Underneath the chaos is real advice: how to evaluate shrubs for stragglers, pests, and disease before you prune; why he ditches mulch entirely, insisting it locks nutrients away from roots; a homemade dish-soap trick for stubborn dry soil; and his case for deep, infrequent watering over daily hosing. He walks through the best window for fall planting and transplanting, plus his go-to citrus fertilizer with a minor-element boost. Recorded completely unedited — interruptions, phone calls, wandering tangents and all — this episode is equal parts gardening masterclass and slice-of-life comedy, ending, naturally, with a conversation about pulled pork.
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