Podcast Episodes

Reducing the Wildfire Threat to Your Home & Yard

In today’s “Beyond the Garden Basics” podcast, we talk with Douglas Kent, author of “Firescaping: Protecting Your Home with A Fire-Resistant Landscap…

3 years, 4 months ago

How Safe are Organic Garden Chemicals?

America’s Favorite Retired College Horticulture Professor, Debbie Flower, discusses garden chemical safety, including: when organic controls can be h…

3 years, 5 months ago

How to Grow Citrus Indoors

Growing Citrus Trees Indoors

Here in California, or if you live in Arizona or Texas or Florida, you get to grow citrus in your backyard, year round. F…

3 years, 5 months ago

Fresh Corn Soup Recipe

Fresh Corn Soup (plus the cob)

Recipe by Andi MacDonald, Sacramento Co. Master Gardener and Professional Chef

Serves 4

During the dog days of summer, th…

3 years, 5 months ago

Grow A Yardful of Phytonutrients

In today’s newsletter podcast, we continue our chat with Dr. Laura Varich, from FreshPhysician.com , a conversation that we began on Episode 228 of t…

3 years, 5 months ago

Cation Exchange Capacity for Gardeners

Debbie Flower, America’s Favorite Retired College Horticulture Professor, brought up the subject of “Cation Exchange Capacity” back in Episode 193 o…

3 years, 5 months ago

Plant Hormones

In today’s newsletter podcast, America’s Favorite Retired Horticultural Professor, Debbie Flower, explains plant hormones, and how they can help you …

3 years, 6 months ago

All About Imidacloprid

A question into the Garden Basics with Farmer Fred podcast raised more questions for myself and Debbie Flower, America’s Favorite Retired College Hor…

3 years, 6 months ago

Kaboom! Sudden Tree Limb Failure

It happens without warning every summer. A tree branch from an oak, eucalyptus, elm, ash, or other large, old tree crashes to the ground on a warm, n…

3 years, 6 months ago

Roses That Can Take the Heat

“Of all flowers, methinks rose is best”. Shakespeare said that. He lived in Stratford-upon-Avon, about halfway between London and Birmingham, England…

3 years, 6 months ago