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Garden Variety — 210 episodes

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The crickets are humming

2

Invasive maneuvers

3

Lawn and order

4

BONUS: Weeding out the competition

5

Feeling symp-tomato-ic?

6

The rule of mum

7

Happily ever aster

8

What's on the vege-table?

9

It's like a heat wave burning in my hort

10

Help your trees feel oak-kay again

11

These native plants are fan-grass-tic!

12

Getting bark to basics

13

Grape vines think alike

14

Closer I am to vine

15

Grow with the flow

16

Diversi-tree is key

17

We didn't start the fire blight

18

Lawn story short

19

Berry good blueberry tips

20

Small but might-tree

21

BONUS: The pep talk you need to start a backyard prairie

22

Get a thrillium from trillium

23

Pest in show

24

Grow with what you know

25

Spot and treat those plant spots early

26

Stumped on which tree to pick?

27

The root to great fruit

28

The bugs are back in town

29

Fine pruning your fruit trees

30

BONUS: Exploding trees? Please!

31

Prune with purpose

32

Getting to the root of African violets

33

BONUS: A ditch tree for free

34

Mistletoe, holly, and all plants jolly

35

A look at the Christmas indus-tree

36

BONUS: Trouble in tropical plant paradise

37

Follow these cider house rules

38

Berry good winter prep

39

BONUS: Respect your insects

40

Leaf me alone

41

Scare your plants off

42

Too bug to fail

43

Daffodil with it

44

Put your vegetable garden to bed

45

BONUS: An acorn storm

46

Fall aboard!

47

Vine and dandy

48

Flower you doing?

49

Mighty morphing flower rangers

50

Lawning for the perfect yard

51

Wait until the time is ripe to harvest your fruit

52

Don't judge a crop by its cover

53

How to avoid an identi-tree crisis

54

Glow your own way

55

Switch it up with switchgrass

56

Try out this gardening root-ine

57

The ultimate power plants

58

Better than all the pest

59

Tools for the turf war

60

Conducting tree-age before it's too late

61

Now that's un-bean-lievable!

62

A conifer-sation with a plant expert

63

These blooms are iris-sistable

64

Kiwi berries? Fur-get about it

65

Import-ant advice for your home and garden

66

Become a succession boss

67

Diseases with the gall to kill our plants

68

How to know when it's time to mow

69

Lettuce help you with your vegetable garden

70

What your seedlings are needling

71

Midwest isn't the easiest place to bee

72

Prune-in to this show for fruit tree tips

73

The Name Game (plant edition)

74

Get rich in soil knowledge

75

Don't cut your flowers' beauty short

76

Plants that will give you their undying love

77

You won't forking believe these gardening tips

78

Ex-seed your expectations this year

79

Tis the season to be a nutcracker

80

Dreaming of a green Christmas tree

81

Kind of a fig deal

82

BONUS: A rare bee discovery

83

Wicked witch of the pest

84

A look at plant disease trends this year

85

Shiver me timbers

86

Gourd big or go home

87

More like dry-owa

88

Fall perennials are bloomin brilliant

89

Bet your autumn dollar

90

May the forced bulbs be with you

91

'Tis the season for freezing

92

Iowa's fields of green are turning gold

93

Advice for hard-core apple lovers

94

BONUS: Don’t fear the Ghost Plant

95

Plentiful perennials

96

Unwelcome beehavior

97

BONUS: Pondering our pollinators

98

How to dill with excess herbs

99

What's shrub got to do with it?

100

Friend or foe? Predator or prey?

101

Practice what you peach

102

Leaf your root worries behind

103

Cease the disease

104

Sweet corn is an a-maize-ing summer crop

105

Nothing a homegrown tomato won't cure

106

Contain your plants, not your excitement

107

Born a bramblin man

108

Welcome to the shrub club

109

This episode is jam-packed with great advice

110

In the mood to brood

111

Highway to the hardiness zone

112

BONUS: Cicadas

113

Assets for your baskets

114

BONUS: Invasive Species

115

He speaks for the trees!

116

A little mower lawn advice

117

Blooming brilliant tips for beautiful trees

118

Take the petal to the metal

119

Advice for when insects make you want to flea

120

Breaking bud

121

What to do when mustard has you flustered

122

Sowing seeds of knowledge

123

These plants really deliver

124

Throwing shade and catching rays

125

BONUS: Philadelphia Flower Show

126

The key to a successful garden - variety!

127

Flowers for that special some bud-y

128

Water hydroponics good for anyway?

129

Extra, extra! Seed all about it!

130

BONUS: Behind the Scenes with the Hort Gang

131

Tree-mendous advice for your holiday plants

132

Holidays are betta with a poinsettia

133

Bird is the word and less is more

134

Let's get to the root of the issue

135

Do weekend garden tasks before clocks fall back

136

Don't believe the web of lies about spiders

137

BONUS: Getting ready for fall

138

A very prairie episode

139

Color me glad

140

Mum is the word, and we're telling everyone

141

Honeyberry, I'm home!

142

The shrub can't even handle me right now

143

We're keen for greens this fall

144

Social Wasps do their own sting

145

BONUS: Fireflies in Iowa

146

Mower lawn care advice

147

BONUS: Everything melon

148

A bunch of grape advice

149

BONUS: Our favorite garden Q&A

150

Is the grass greener? Choosing new plants

151

Singing Scissor Grinder Cicada all summer long

152

Who turnip-ed the heat?

153

Sweet re-leaf

154

Can I offer you a cucurbit of advice?

155

Beetlemania

156

Don't forget the trees!

157

Keep your tomato plants feelin vine

158

Puns and roses

159

Have you tried turning it melon and off again?

160

International flavors, grown at home

161

Fern up the volume

162

What's your damage?

163

Check out our tick talk

164

And they lived appley ever after

165

BONUS: the morel of the story

166

Tree advice you can be-leaf in

167

Not just tu-lip service

168

Building a healthy garden from the ground up

169

Keeping that lawn green

170

Don't let this shrub you the wrong way

171

Mow grass, mow problems

172

Fruit tree advice that's pear-fect for spring

173

Late winter advice that's cool as a cucumber

174

You wood not make it without this tree and shrub advice

175

The window to prune is closing soon

176

I like you a vio-lot

177

And this zone is just right

178

Getting the bugs worked out

179

Celery-brate the holidays with the 2022 gardening gift guide

180

Impeckable advice for supporting bird populations

181

Branch out this winter with our forestry expert

182

How to get holiday blooms on your cactus

183

Insect puns bug me

184

Clean, gourd fun

185

Find the greener ornamental grass

186

It's leaf peeping season in Iowa

187

Turf's up

188

Daffodils for spring? Groundbreaking

189

Core knowledge for great apples

190

Not just good, grape

191

Bees are reveling in fall pollen

192

Fall in love with late season perennials

193

Pining after healthy conifers

194

Strong to the finish, overwintering spinach

195

Making your lawn seed-sational

196

Answering berry important questions

197

How can we help monarch butterflies?

198

Insert corny pun here

199

What to do when all h*ll oaks loose

200

Happy little trees

201

Stalk talk: caring for broccoli and cauliflower

202

Ch-ch-changes: talking about growth and how landscapes evolve

203

Find the best groundcovers for your yard

204

Bonus episode: gardening and native plants

205

Ants in your plants

206

Late bloomers: it’s not too late to plant sweet potatoes

207

Peony for your thoughts

208

How to care for apple trees

209

You say tomato

210

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