This week, Nathan answers your gardening questions! Nancy asks if poppies can be grown in the south and if there are any perennial kinds. Even though the south isn't the best place to grow poppies year round, Nathan talks about five poppies
Read MoreThis week, Nathan helps you plan your 2024 vegetable garden by talking about the healthiest vegetables you could possibly grow. Of course, the whole point to growing vegetables is to eat them once they're harvestable. Why not grow the vegetables
Read MoreThis week, Nathan tackles the lackluster, yellowy, drying-back garden of summer. If the stresses of summer have got your plants looking a bit sad, Nathan explains a few simple and basic actions you can take to help restore your garden's beauty in the dead of summer!
Read MoreJust like people, plants deal with diseases. This week, Nathan gives you a three step program to follow when controlling plant disease. Prevention is always the key!
Read MoreIt's almost time to start fertilizing your garden babies! This week, Nathan gives you the scoop on the nutrient cycle, how plant nutrition actually cycles through animal life and back again. He also talks about the pros and cons to organic and commercial
Read MoreRoses are one of America's favorite garden flower! This week, Nathan talks about purchasing roses as bare root plants. He also talks about storing them for planting later and how to plant them. Growing roses from bare root plants opens the
Read MoreThis Independence Day weekend, Nathan helps you gain your freedom from spending money at the plant nursery! You can propagate your own plants with these simple garden activities. Nathan discusses the two main types of plant propagation: sexual and
Read MoreWinter is a great time to work on soil health! This week, Nathan gives you a simple way to test the components of your soil and discusses what you might find. Then, he talks about the main way to improve soil health: incorporating organic matter. From compost
Read MoreThis week, Nathan answers your gardening questions! He starts off by answering Shane's question about Japanese Pieris and ponders five different reasons why it might not be blooming. Then, Kathleen asks about plants that make great
Read MoreWhen and how to water is a very confusing subject! Unfortunately, there's no sure-fire template but this week Nathan gives you his tips and suggestions for watering container plants, newly planted plants, and more established plants. Hint: Mon
Read MoreAs spring develops, so does the variety of things we can begin to plant! This week, it should be getting warm enough to begin thinking seriously about planting tomatoes. Nathan gives the ins and outs on tomatoes and growing them in the
Read MoreThis week Nathan talks all about cucumbers! From their humble beginnings in India to growing them in your garden, this is a crash course on growing a favorite garden vegetable. Nathan discusses the botany of cucumbers, U.S. and worldwide production,
Read MoreOnions are highly favored crops because of their unique pungent flavor. This week, Nathan discusses the history of onions and their characteristics, their unique types and forms, and of course, how to grow them! Whether you like sweet or spicy, Nathan is here
Read MoreThis week, Nathan continues the journey into the veggie patch and talks about everything potatoes! Potatoes are an important crop around the world and a great, productive plant to grow in the early spring garden. Nathan discusses the origin, history,
Read MoreThis week, Nathan continues talking about growing vegetables, specifically carrots- Civilization's Favorite Root Crop! He discusses the history of the plant itself and the various types commonly grown. Carrots are easy and fun to grow and Nathan gives you
Read MoreThis week, Nathan dispels the myth that growing peonies in the South is impossible. We can grow peonies and we can grow them well! Listen as Nathan gives his top tips for success! Then, he turns his attention to the shape of flowers and their
Read MoreHellebores, or Lenten Rose, are unusual plants that keep their leaves all year and bloom in the dead of winter! If you don't have hellebores in your garden, you should! Nathan helps you get started with a full episode on the history, species, tips for growing,
Read MoreThis week, Nathan continues his chats on winter gardening! There are some essential garden plants that every Southern garden must include over winter. Namely, the camellia. Nathan discusses the two main groups of camellias found in our garden,
Read MoreMerry Christmas from New Southern Garden! If you haven't already shopped for the gardener in your family, you don't have many days left to decide what to get! Don't worry. Nathan gives you plenty of Christmas gifts for gardeners on today's program.
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