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Garden Variety — 195 episodes

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Diversi-tree is key

2

We didn't start the fire blight

3

Lawn story short

4

Berry good blueberry tips

5

Small but might-tree

6

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

7

Get a thrillium from trillium

8

Pest in show

9

Grow with what you know

10

Spot and treat those plant spots early

11

Stumped on which tree to pick?

12

The root to great fruit

13

The bugs are back in town

14

Fine pruning your fruit trees

15

BONUS: Exploding trees? Please!

16

Prune with purpose

17

Getting to the root of African violets

18

BONUS: A ditch tree for free

19

Mistletoe, holly, and all plants jolly

20

A look at the Christmas indus-tree

21

BONUS: Trouble in tropical plant paradise

22

Follow these cider house rules

23

Berry good winter prep

24

BONUS: Respect your insects

25

Leaf me alone

26

Scare your plants off

27

Too bug to fail

28

Daffodil with it

29

Put your vegetable garden to bed

30

BONUS: An acorn storm

31

Fall aboard!

32

Vine and dandy

33

Flower you doing?

34

Mighty morphing flower rangers

35

Lawning for the perfect yard

36

Wait until the time is ripe to harvest your fruit

37

Don't judge a crop by its cover

38

How to avoid an identi-tree crisis

39

Glow your own way

40

Switch it up with switchgrass

41

Try out this gardening root-ine

42

The ultimate power plants

43

Better than all the pest

44

Tools for the turf war

45

Conducting tree-age before it's too late

46

Now that's un-bean-lievable!

47

A conifer-sation with a plant expert

48

These blooms are iris-sistable

49

Kiwi berries? Fur-get about it

50

Import-ant advice for your home and garden

51

Become a succession boss

52

Diseases with the gall to kill our plants

53

How to know when it's time to mow

54

Lettuce help you with your vegetable garden

55

What your seedlings are needling

56

Midwest isn't the easiest place to bee

57

Prune-in to this show for fruit tree tips

58

The Name Game (plant edition)

59

Get rich in soil knowledge

60

Don't cut your flowers' beauty short

61

Plants that will give you their undying love

62

You won't forking believe these gardening tips

63

Ex-seed your expectations this year

64

Tis the season to be a nutcracker

65

Dreaming of a green Christmas tree

66

Kind of a fig deal

67

BONUS: A rare bee discovery

68

Wicked witch of the pest

69

A look at plant disease trends this year

70

Shiver me timbers

71

Gourd big or go home

72

More like dry-owa

73

Fall perennials are bloomin brilliant

74

Bet your autumn dollar

75

May the forced bulbs be with you

76

'Tis the season for freezing

77

Iowa's fields of green are turning gold

78

Advice for hard-core apple lovers

79

BONUS: Don’t fear the Ghost Plant

80

Plentiful perennials

81

Unwelcome beehavior

82

BONUS: Pondering our pollinators

83

How to dill with excess herbs

84

What's shrub got to do with it?

85

Friend or foe? Predator or prey?

86

Practice what you peach

87

Leaf your root worries behind

88

Cease the disease

89

Sweet corn is an a-maize-ing summer crop

90

Nothing a homegrown tomato won't cure

91

Contain your plants, not your excitement

92

Born a bramblin man

93

Welcome to the shrub club

94

This episode is jam-packed with great advice

95

In the mood to brood

96

Highway to the hardiness zone

97

BONUS: Cicadas

98

Assets for your baskets

99

BONUS: Invasive Species

100

He speaks for the trees!

101

A little mower lawn advice

102

Blooming brilliant tips for beautiful trees

103

Take the petal to the metal

104

Advice for when insects make you want to flea

105

Breaking bud

106

What to do when mustard has you flustered

107

Sowing seeds of knowledge

108

These plants really deliver

109

Throwing shade and catching rays

110

BONUS: Philadelphia Flower Show

111

The key to a successful garden - variety!

112

Flowers for that special some bud-y

113

Water hydroponics good for anyway?

114

Extra, extra! Seed all about it!

115

BONUS: Behind the Scenes with the Hort Gang

116

Tree-mendous advice for your holiday plants

117

Holidays are betta with a poinsettia

118

Bird is the word and less is more

119

Let's get to the root of the issue

120

Do weekend garden tasks before clocks fall back

121

Don't believe the web of lies about spiders

122

BONUS: Getting ready for fall

123

A very prairie episode

124

Color me glad

125

Mum is the word, and we're telling everyone

126

Honeyberry, I'm home!

127

The shrub can't even handle me right now

128

We're keen for greens this fall

129

Social Wasps do their own sting

130

BONUS: Fireflies in Iowa

131

Mower lawn care advice

132

BONUS: Everything melon

133

A bunch of grape advice

134

BONUS: Our favorite garden Q&A

135

Is the grass greener? Choosing new plants

136

Singing Scissor Grinder Cicada all summer long

137

Who turnip-ed the heat?

138

Sweet re-leaf

139

Can I offer you a cucurbit of advice?

140

Beetlemania

141

Don't forget the trees!

142

Keep your tomato plants feelin vine

143

Puns and roses

144

Have you tried turning it melon and off again?

145

International flavors, grown at home

146

Fern up the volume

147

What's your damage?

148

Check out our tick talk

149

And they lived appley ever after

150

BONUS: the morel of the story

151

Tree advice you can be-leaf in

152

Not just tu-lip service

153

Building a healthy garden from the ground up

154

Keeping that lawn green

155

Don't let this shrub you the wrong way

156

Mow grass, mow problems

157

Fruit tree advice that's pear-fect for spring

158

Late winter advice that's cool as a cucumber

159

You wood not make it without this tree and shrub advice

160

The window to prune is closing soon

161

I like you a vio-lot

162

And this zone is just right

163

Getting the bugs worked out

164

Celery-brate the holidays with the 2022 gardening gift guide

165

Impeckable advice for supporting bird populations

166

Branch out this winter with our forestry expert

167

How to get holiday blooms on your cactus

168

Insect puns bug me

169

Clean, gourd fun

170

Find the greener ornamental grass

171

It's leaf peeping season in Iowa

172

Turf's up

173

Daffodils for spring? Groundbreaking

174

Core knowledge for great apples

175

Not just good, grape

176

Bees are reveling in fall pollen

177

Fall in love with late season perennials

178

Pining after healthy conifers

179

Strong to the finish, overwintering spinach

180

Making your lawn seed-sational

181

Answering berry important questions

182

How can we help monarch butterflies?

183

Insert corny pun here

184

What to do when all h*ll oaks loose

185

Happy little trees

186

Stalk talk: caring for broccoli and cauliflower

187

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

188

Find the best groundcovers for your yard

189

Bonus episode: gardening and native plants

190

Ants in your plants

191

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

192

Peony for your thoughts

193

How to care for apple trees

194

You say tomato

195

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