Ep. 260- March Q&A Week: Moles, Voles, Wisteria, and Water Pipes

This week, Nathan answers all the questions that have been burning through your March gardens! Do you have moles? Do you have voles? Is there a difference and what can you do about them? Nathan helps Lee Ann deal with those irritating mammals

Flowers., Moles, Pesticides, Podcast, Pruning, Q&A, Weeding, VolesNathan WilsonMarch 30, 2024voles, moles, Repellex, MoleMax Bonide, invasive wisteria, getting rid of wisteria, eliminating wisteria, organic weed control, Planting on a water lineComment

Ep. 258- Preparing Your Winter Garden for Spring

Is it still winter? Has spring started yet? Some days are hot. Some nights are cold. This week, Nathan talks about preparing your winter garden for spring. He walks you through several gardening tasks, discusses the best (and worst) time to perform them, and

Design, Fertilizing, Perennials, Planting, Propagation, Pruning, WeedingNathan WilsonMarch 16, 2024garden planning, garden design, fertilizing in spring, pruning plants, watering the garden, weeding garden beds, mulching, propagating plants, planting a shrubComment

Ep. 244- Budget-Friendly Hacks for the Garden

This week, Nathan helps you grow more while saving more! Nathan's budget-friendly hacks will help you get more plants in your garden without spending your life savings. He also talks about how repurposing containers and mulch bags

Compost, Cut Flowers, DIY, Plants, Perennials, Podcast, Propagation, Vegetable Gardening, WeedingNathan WilsonDecember 9, 2023garden hacks, budget-friendly, save moneyComment

Ep. 243- Organic Winter Weed Control

This week, Nathan helps you alleviate those pesky winter weeds...organically! From preventing them to eradicating them, he gives you several helpful options to getting rid of weeds. From pre-emergent options, like flame weeding and

Weeding, Products, PodcastNathan WilsonDecember 2, 2023winter weeds, organic weed killer, organic weed controlComment

Ep. 161- Choking Out Pests...Early!

Let Nathan help you get ahead of the pests this spring! Usually pests in the garden become a major problem because we fail to take necessary measures in preventing them. This week, Nathan gives you a surefire method to reducing pest issues before they become

Insects, Pesticides, Plant Disease, Plants, Podcast, Vegetable Gardening, WeedingNathan WilsonApril 23, 2022pest control, scouting, disease control, insect control, weed controlComment

Ep. 143- Invasive Trees in the News

This week Nathan goes to the news outlets to reveal that invasive species are finally being talked about! The article from USA Today that Nathan works through reveals how South Carolina is working to ban a once beloved garden tree…the Bradford Pear.

Plants, Podcast, WeedingNathan WilsonDecember 11, 2021bradford pear, callery pear, invasive plantComment

Ep. 135- 9/11 Memorial Garden, Preventing Weeds, and More Fall Garden Plants

This week on New Southern Garden, we remember the events and lives lost on September 11 twenty years ago. Nathan talks about a beautiful memorial garden, The Garden of Reflection, located in Pennsylvania. Be sure to check out images and

Design, Flowers., History, Lawn, Planting, Plants, Podcast, WeedingNathan WilsonSeptember 11, 20219/11, September 11, The Garden of Reflection, preventing weeds, preemergents, mulching, fall garden, fall planting, fall vegetablesComment

Ep. 119- The Perennial Garden: Maintenance

As we continue talking about the perennial garden, we must accept the fact that these living plants will need some attention and maintenance. Nathan gives you tips and ideas to help maintaining the perennial garden seem more fun than drudgery. Watering,

Compost, Perennials, Pruning, Techniques, WeedingNathan WilsonMay 22, 2021perennial garden, perennials, weeding, fertilizing, organic fertilizer, manure, compost, watering, watering plants, pruning perennials, deadheadingComment

Ep. 91- Q&A Week- Blackberry, Rose Sawfly, and East Asian Joro Spider

This week, Nathan's back to answering your questions! David from Alabama asks about the best way to build a bed for blackberries and how to keep them disease-free and growing great! Nathan discusses a nemesis of roses known as the Rose

Fruit Trees, Insects, Pesticides, Plant Disease, Planting, Plants, Podcast, Q&A, Roses, Weeding, TechniquesNathan WilsonOctober 31, 2020blackberry, blackberries, planting, roses, rose, sawfly, spider, Halloween, East Asian Joro Spider, Bt, BacillusComment

Ep. 88- Killing Bradford Pear, Empress Tree, and Chinaberry

Continuing the topic from the previous episode, Nathan describes some beautiful but terrible trees that have proven to be invasive species. Bradford Pear trees scatter across the south in our gardens, but now they are filling our woodlands

Pesticides, Plants, Podcast, WeedingNathan WilsonOctober 10, 2020invasive weeds, invasive plant, invasive tree, bradford pear, chinaberry, empress tree, paulownia, princess tree, weeds, organic, glyphosate, triclopyrComment

Ep. 87- Killing Kudzu, Privet, and English Ivy

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