Better Lawns and Gardens - Hour 2 Tom MacCubbin Bob Hotaling Vegetable Gardening May 17, 2025

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios.   Garden expert, Teresa Watkins has jetted off to the Chelsea Flower Show and Host Emeritus Tom MacCubbin and producer Lizzie Steele, are in the studio! Producer Lizzie Steele fills in Tom on how to keep her turkeys cool in the heat. Tom’s Dirty Word of the Day is Nematode. Tom interviews his good friend and UF/IFAS Master Gardener, Bob Hotaling about his summer vegetable harvest, how he makes his garden soil, and his best tips for growing tomatoes from seed. Garden topics and questions include controlling mealy bugs, new plants like borage, Elfin tomatoes, avocados, sago palm fertilizer, cutting back spiral ginger, a substitute for boxwood, keeping zoysia and grassy weeds out of the garden bed, new citrus varieties that are resistant to greening, and more. https://bit.ly/4diIsZH

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