S2 Ep358: Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Tom MacCubbin Bob Hotaling Vegetable Gardening May 17, 2025

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Garden expert, Teresa Watkins has jetted off to the Chelsea Flower Show and Host Emeritus Tom MacCubbin and producer Lizzie Steele, are in the studio! Producer Lizzie Steele fills in Tom on how to keep her turkeys cool in the heat. Tom’s Dirty Word of the Day is Nematode. Tom interviews his good friend and UF/IFAS Master Gardener, Bob Hotaling about his summer vegetable harvest, how he makes his garden soil, and his best tips for growing tomatoes from seed. Garden topics and questions include controlling mealy bugs, new plants like borage, Elfin tomatoes, avocados, sago palm fertilizer, cutting back spiral ginger, a substitute for boxwood, keeping zoysia and grassy weeds out of the garden bed, new citrus varieties that are resistant to greening, and more. https://bit.ly/4diIsZHSign up for Teresa’s monthly gardening newsletter, “In Your Backyard” where you can read Teresa’s what to do in your landscape tips, Landscape Malpractice: How to know when to fire your landscaper,” Teresa’s Design Tips; and more. https://bit.ly/2YRBbsT Art in Bloom Garden Tours  Buffalo Garden Walk and Niagara Falls, Canada, The Gardens of Scotland, and The Gardens and Grandeur of the Hudson River Valley. Come join Teresa on incredible garden tours! Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins, Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call in with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Join me on Facebook, Instagram.#WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #Deland #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #podcast #syndicated #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow