Episodes
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Trailer: ATXGardens Podcast!
Hey Horticulturati listeners, Colleen has a new podcast! Stop stressing about your yard! Each week, landscape consultant Colleen Dieter with ATXGardens.com shares exactly what you should be doing right now to keep your plants and trees happy. With 20+ years of experience helping Central Texans,...
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Organic Gardening Legend John Dromgoole
John Dromgoole wears a lot of hats. Sun hats mostly, but also figurative ones: founder of the Natural Gardener, former host of the long-running garden call-in radio show Gardening Naturally on Newsradio KLBJ, regular TV presenter on PBS' Central Texas Gardener and KXAN's The Weekend Gardener; the...
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Seeds of Food Sovereignty with the Cooperative Gardens Commission
In this episode, we talk about seed sharing and food justice with Hayden Kesterson and DJ Needelman from the Cooperative Gardens Commission. The CGC is an international grassroots collective of volunteers working to increase community food production, resource-sharing, and food sovereignty.…
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Spring Announcements and new podcast feeds
New developments are afoot here at Horticulturati HQ! More episodes of this podcast are on the way. In the meantime, you will find Colleen's radio show, Horticulture Hangover, on a separate podcast feed. Please subscribe to Hangover to get your weekly dose gardening advice: Apple podcasts Spotify...
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Horticulture Hangover from December 16, 2023
Colleen Dieter, co-host of the Horticulturati podcast also hosts the Horticulture Hangover Radio Show, a call-in (or text-in) show for gardening questions. Tune in to Horticulture Hangover live on Saturdays at 8-9 am CST: 99.7 AM and 590 FM. ATXgardens.com
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Horticulture Hangover from Dec 9, 2023
Colleen Dieter, co-host of the Horticulturati podcast also hosts the Horticulture Hangover Radio Show, a call-in (or text-in) show for gardening questions. Tune in to Horticulture Hangover live on Saturdays at 8-9 am CST: 99.7 AM and 590 FM. ATXgardens.com
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Horticulture Hangover from November 25, 2023
Colleen Dieter, co-host of the Horticulturati podcast also hosts the Horticulture Hangover Radio Show, a call-in (or text-in) show for gardening questions. Tune in to Horticulture Hangover live on Saturdays at 8-9 am CST: 99.7 AM and 590 FM. ATXgardens.com
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Horticulture Hangover from November 18, 2023
Colleen Dieter, co-host of the Horticulturati podcast also hosts the Horticulture Hangover Radio Show, a call-in (or text-in) show for gardening questions. Tune in to Horticulture Hangover live on Saturdays at 8-9 am CST: 99.7 AM and 590 FM. ATXgardens.com
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Horticulture Hangover from November 11, 2023
Colleen Dieter, co-host of the Horticulturati podcast also hosts the Horticulture Hangover Radio Show, a call-in (or text-in) show for gardening questions. Tune in to Horticulture Hangover live on Saturdays at 8-9 am CST: 99.7 AM and 590 FM. ATXgardens.com
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Horticulture Hangover from November 4, 2023
Colleen Dieter, co-host of the Horticulturati podcast, also hosts the Horticulture Hangover Radio Show, a call-in (or text-in) show for gardening questions. Tune in to Horticulture Hangover live on Saturdays at 8-9 am CST: 99.7 AM and 590 FM. ATXgardens.com
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Veggies and Fruit- Horticulture Hangover from February 3, 2024
What can we plant in the vegetable garden now? How should I fertilize my fruit trees? Get the answers for Central Texas now! Colleen Dieter, co-host of the Horticulturati podcast also hosts the Horticulture Hangover Radio Show, a call-in (or text-in) show for gardening questions. Tune in to...
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Horticulture Hangover, October 28, 2023
Colleen Dieter, co-host of the Horticulturati podcast also hosts the Horticulture Hangover Radio Show, a call-in (or text-in) show for gardening questions. Tune in to Horticulture Hangover live on Saturdays at 8-9 am CST: 99.7 AM and 590 FM. ATXgardens.com
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Horticulture Hangover, October 21, 2023
Colleen Dieter, co-host of the Horticulturati podcast also hosts the Horticulture Hangover Radio Show, a call-in (or text-in) show for gardening questions. Tune in to Horticulture Hangover live on Saturdays at 8-9 am CST: 99.7 AM and 590 FM. ATXgardens.com
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Horticulture Hangover: October 14, 2023
Colleen Dieter, co-host of the Horticulturati podcast also hosts the Horticulture Hangover Radio Show, a call-in (or text-in) show for gardening questions. Tune in to Horticulture Hangover live on Saturdays at 8-9 am CST: 99.7 AM and 590 FM. ATXgardens.com
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Turf Wars: St. Augustine
On this episode, we're sinking our toes into St. Augustine grass (Stenotaphrum secundatum), icon of the Texas lawn from Hank Hill's house to the State Capitol grounds. Millions of acres of prime farmland and front yards are dedicated to this non-edible crop. St. Augustine is so ubiquitous in our...
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The Old Farmer's Almanac
We're back with an Old Farmers' Almanac episode! Continuously published since 1792, the Almanac is an American institution, rife with weather forecasts, recipes, gardening tips, and snake oil. Long advertised on its cover as "useful, with a pleasant degree of humor," the new edition provides tips...
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Horticulture Hangover: Texas Madrones, hardy hibiscus, & night-blooming cereus
Here's the September 24 episode of Horticulture Hangover, our radio broadcast on KLBJ. Colleen reports back from the International Society of Arboriculture's Texas Tree Conference, and we take questions about Texas Madrones, hardy hibiscus, night-blooming cereus, and more. Check out the Austin...
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Horticulture Hangover: Growing Natives with Willy Glenn
This week, Colleen is out of town, so Leah invited a guest host, horticulturist Willy Glenn from It's Your Nature and @yournativenursery. We discuss adapting our plant palette due to climate change, the challenges of propagating natives, and the beauty of grasses in the landscape. We also field...
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Grasses for Butterflies
When you picture a butterfly garden, you probably envision big, colorful flowers. But did you know that over 100 butterfly species in Texas use native grasses and sedges as their larval host plants? In this episode, Leah makes the case for adding grasses to your pollinator garden. The majority of...
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Horticulture Hangover: Hardscaping with Michele Fonzi
On this week's radio show, landscape designer Michele Fonzi joins Leah to talk about framing the garden with hardscaping. Michelle is a landscape construction expert, horticulturist, and project manager who builds commercial and residential spaces with her company, Michele Fonzi Designs. We…
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Horticulture Hangover: Batwatching, Red Oaks, and Mistflowers
Here's the July 29 episode of Horticulture Hangover, our radio broadcast on KLBJ. Leah reports on her visit to Braken Cave -- the world's largest bat colony! -- summer home to 15-20 million bats, then we talk about multi-trunked red oaks tendency to fall apart, watering trees, dealing with…
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Horticulture Hangover: Ants and aphids & growing grapes
When the phones are down, the show must go on! Here's the July 22 episode of Horticulture Hangover, our radio broadcast on KLBJ. We talk about ants and aphids, when to pick melons, growing grapes, and transplanting stuff when it's not quite the right time. Tune in to Horticulture Hangover live on...
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The Everything Garden
Can a native plant garden be maintained without year-round pruning? In this episode, Colleen articulates her front-yard scheme for a super-low-maintenance native garden design for Central Texas, a cumulative idea inspired by past episodes of this very podcast. Her working title is "The Everything...
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Horticulture Hangover: Karst caves, Navajo peaches, and velvet leaf mallow
Here's the July 15 episode of Horticulture Hangover, our radio broadcast on KLBJ. We talk about karst ecosystems, ticks in Texas, Navajo or "Indian" peaches, harvesting figs, and a native plant that's on our wish list: velvet leaf mallow (Allowissadula holosericea). Tune in to Horticulture…
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Horticulture Hangover: Critical root zones, cutting back cannas, and trees in pots
Here's the July 8 episode of Horticulture Hangover, our radio broadcast on KLBJ. We talk about measuring a tree's critical root zone, when to cut back canna lilies to keep them blooming, and how to root-prune trees in pots. Tune in to Horticulture Hangover live on Saturdays at 8-9 am CST online...
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Horticulture Hangover: Sweet potatoes, four o'clocks, and mowing wildflowers
Here's the July 1 episode of Horticulture Hangover, our radio broadcast on KLBJ. We get calls about planting sweet potato slips; four o'clocks failing to bloom; when to mow wildflowers; and how to collect sunflower seeds. Enjoy! Austin listeners, don't miss Colleen's free class, Native Plant...
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Horticulture Hangover: Bt, sowing wildflowers, & battling Bermuda
Just unearthed from the archives, here's the 5/27 recording of Horticulture Hangover, our radio broadcast on KLBJ. We talk about the difference between Bti (Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis) and Btk (Bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki), propose solutions for invading Bermuda grass, and give a...
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Horticulture Hangover: When Vines Attack
Here's the June 24 episode of Horticulture Hangover, our radio broadcast on KLBJ. We talk about National Pollinator Week, heat stress on citrus, and the pros and cons of various types of irrigation. We also get two calls about unruly vines driving people crazy. Austin listeners, don't miss...
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Lawn Ordinances with Chris Kennedy
Why do we mow our lawns? That's the question posed by our guest, artist and urban ecologist Chris Kennedy of the Urban Systems Lab and Central Texas Mycological Society; the answer is a tangle of municipal policy, attitudes toward property ownership, and status anxiety. Chris joins the pod to…
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Horticulture Hangover: triple digits, tomato pests, and wild pumpkins
Here's the 6/17 recording of Horticulture Hangover, our radio broadcast on KLBJ. We got a little silly this week, and answered questions about pruning boxwoods, how much to water, leaf footed bugs, wild pumpkins, and more. Austin listeners, don't miss Colleen's free class, Native Plant…
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Horticulture Hangover: transplant shock, evergreen vines, and poison ivy
Here's the 6/10 recording of Horticulture Hangover, our radio broadcast on KLBJ. This week, we covered transplant shock, twining vs. clinging vines, and poison ivy. Tune in live on Saturdays at 8am CST online here, or on the airwaves: 99.7 AM and 590 FM Join our Patreon for early access to...
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Horticulture Hangover: crabgrass, oak suckers, and scheming squirrels
Colleen did the show solo on June 3 because Leah skipped town! She got a lot of great questions. Topics include crabgrass, live oak suckers, and sneaky squirrels scheming on stonefruits. Have a question you want us to answer on the podcast? Email [email protected]. Tune in live and call or...
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Horticulture Hangover: Mosquitoes, Peaches, and "Beaver Poison"
Here's the May 20 episode of Horticulture Hangover, our live call-in show on Newsradio KLBJ. We talk about how to deal with mosquitoes, making room for poisonous plants in the garden, staking plants in pots, and the radical difference of gardening in Texas vs. California. Have a question you want...
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Horticulture Hangover: Lopsided trees, Meyer lemons, and a native plant bouquet
More garden questions answered! Here's the April 13 episode of Horticulture Hangover, our live call-in show on Newsradio KLBJ. Have a question you want us to answer? Email us at [email protected] Or, tune in live and call or text your questions next Saturday from at 8-9 am CST on KLBJ's...
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Horticulture Hangover: Drip irrigation, tropical milkweed, and more fruit tree questions
Here's a double dose of Horticulture Hangover, our live call-in show on Newsradio KLBJ, recorded April 29 and May 6. Due to various travel plans and life events, we each did our first solo episodes of the radio show. So many technical surprises and goofs! Tune in live and call or text your...
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The Phosphorus Paradox (Part 1)
On this episode, we're tackling Phosphorus – an element, crucial to life on earth, which exists in both abundance and scarcity. We cover how humans got hooked on P fertilizers, the political and environmental impacts of mining and pollution, and what might be done about it. Mentioned in this...
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Horticulture Hangover: Compost tea; Deep shade; Poisonous plants
Here's the 4/22 broadcast recording of Horticulture Hangover, our NEW live show on Newsradio KLBJ. Saturday's chat included a rundown of our busy weekend of garden events, plus listener questions about compost tea, grass alternatives for deep shade, poisonous plants, tender tropical bulbs, and...
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Horticulture Hangover: Plant Swap Tips; Dividing Muhly Grasses; Deer Damage
Here's the recording of this week's Horticulture Hangover, our new radio broadcast on KLBJ. This week's coversation includes: plant swap tips, dividing muhly grasses, protecting young trees from deer damage, transplanting milkweeds, and more. Tune in live next week at 8-9 am CST online here, or…
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Introducing: Horticulture Hangover
We're doing a call-in gardening show the radio! It's called "Horticulture Hangover" and it airs on Saturdays from 8-9 am CST on KLBJ 590AM/99.7 FM. You can also stream it live here. We'll still bring you deep dives into topics on the Horticulturati podcast, but now you get a bonus show in this...
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The Multilayered Magic of Sheet Mulching
On this episode, we're gettin' down and dirty with sheet mulch. Sheet mulching is a no-till, no-dig gardening practice of removing unwanted vegetation and building fertile soil by layering organic matter and letting it compost in place. While the layers suppress weeds by blocking sunlight,...
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Fruit Tree Care with Susan Poizner
"Fruit trees need hands-on care." That's the motto of our guest, Susan Poizner of OrchardPeople.com. Susan is an urban orchardist, teacher, journalist, and filmmaker. She is the author of Growing Urban Orchards (2014), cofounder of the Ben Nobelman Park Community Orchard in Toronto and the host…
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The Art of Graphics with Lisa Nunamaker and Amy Fedele
In this roundtable, we talk about drafting and drawing with Lisa Nunamaker, of Paper Garden Workshop, and Amy Fedele, of Pretty Purple Door, two fabulous garden educators who offer online courses in landscape graphics. Leah took courses from both instructors this year -- Lisa's Garden Graphics...
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Thorny Common Names
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but some of the common names we use for plants downright stink! In this episode, we're diving into problematic colloquial names. Some common names are geographically misleading ("Jerusalem artichoke"); others are xenophobic, racist, or antisemitic...
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Seed Swap!
Attention plant lovers! Central Texas Seed Savers is hosting a Seed Swap at the Austin Central Library (710 W. Cesar Chavez St) on Saturday, October 29 from 11-1pm. This event is free and open to the public. Bring seeds to share! Or just come get some seeds! For more info, visit...
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A Humble History of the Flowerpot
In this episode, Colleen unearths as much as she can about the largely unwritten history of plant pots. When did humans start growing plants in containers? How did innovations in materials and technology lead to the domestication of plants, plant collecting, and the growth of the nursery…
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The Full Monty Don
We're back with a salute to Monty Don, beloved British gardening expert, author, and fashion icon, whose infectious passion for plants is boosting our spirits through this bummer summer. Though little known in the US, jaunty Monty is a big celebrity across the pond, as the host of the BBC's...
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Design for Ecology & Conservation
On this episode, we dive into ecologist Douglas Tallamy's books Nature's Best Hope (2019) and The Living Landscape (2014, with Rick Darke). Tallamy's work takes native plant gardening and wildlife gardening to another level by focusing not just on species diversity, but on diversity of species...
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The Commercial Compost Conundrum with John Hart Asher *TEASER*
Here's a preview of our bonus segment. To hear the full bonus epsidode, subscribe to our Patreon! Compost is a mysterious product. Gardeners prize it as "black gold," but few of us know how it is manufactured on an industrial scale. In this bonus, John Hart Asher breaks down the difference…
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Pocket Prairies with John Hart Asher
We sat down at the picnic table with John Hart Asher, host of Central Texas Gardener and Cofounder/Senior Environmental Designer at Blackland Collaborative to talk about pocket prairies. What's a pocket prairie? It's a very small prairie. What's a prairie? It's a community of native grasses and...
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Spring Rush & Milkweed Mishegoss
Tropical milkweed...Monarchs' friend or foe? We dip a toe into contested territory with a look at Asclepias curassavica, the most controversial milkweed of all. Up first: we chat about the spring rush and a secondhand ringtail cat sighting. Want more? Join our Patreon for bonus content, early...