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On the Question of the Week, Mike McGrath answers how to SAVE YOUR SEEDS!! And a fresh look at your FABULOUS Phone Calls!

  • Added: Jun 29, 2019
  • Length: 54:59
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On this episode of You Bet Your Garden, Mike McGrath reveals what is in your package of Preen, why its banned for use in the European Union. And th...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2019
  • Length: 54:59
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This week Mike McGrath interviews Lorraine Ballato, Author of "Success With Hydrangeas: A Gardener's Guide"!! And as always, guides your fabulous ...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2019
  • Length: 54:59
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Mike McGrath warns against handling plants when wet in the Question of the Week!! And as always, your warning Phone Calls!!

  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 54:59
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"What CAN you do with a Greenhouse during the Summer?" Mike McGrath finds out the answer on The Question of the Week!! And finds answers to your ...

  • Added: May 28, 2019
  • Length: 54:59
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Mike McGrath take a fresh look at an episode from last month highlighting International Compost Awareness!! And ofcouse your International Phone ca...

  • Added: May 22, 2019
  • Length: 54:59
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Mike McGrath warns against "Improving the Soil" in the hole while Planting Trees and Shrubs in the Question of the week!! And as always, your "impr...

  • Added: May 07, 2019
  • Length: 54:59
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Garden Guru Mike McGrath highlights INTERNATIONAL COMPOST AWARENESS WEEK with 2 special guests! And also highlights your FABULOUS Phone calls!!

  • Added: Apr 17, 2019
  • Length: 54:59
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Mike McGrath welcomes Sebastian Kretschmer of the United Nations as our special guest this week to talk about SUSTAINABLE Gardening systems around...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2019
  • Length: 54:59
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Regretfully, I traveled outside the levees and into the Forbidden Zone. I felt like Kurtz descending into the hellish desert of commercialism, co...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2018
  • Length: 02:55:19
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Desert anemone (Anemone tuberosa) is in the Buttercup Family. Buttercups are the genus Ranuculus and so the family name is Ranunculaceae. It’s prob...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2018
  • Length: 05:22
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Tumbleweed and careless weed are here to stay and though careless weed is an Arizona native (Amaranthus palmeri) it certainly appears, at least to ...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2018
  • Length: 05:19
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I’m not sure I can add a whole lot more about jojoba (Simmondsia chinesis) other than what you hear in this show, except that it is now in its own ...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2017
  • Length: 05:20
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It’s the way that folks at the Bisbee farmers Market say, “Oh, you grow the bellota.” that makes me think of that common name as an honorific name ...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 05:02
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Desert Rosemallow is the official common name I think, though I see it called Coulter’s Hibiscus as well.

  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 05:34
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Though Sonoran Desert millipedes are nocturnal, this is the time of year when you see them out and about on muggy overcast days.

  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 04:56
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How can sound heal a body? With our guides, Susan Rogers—who recorded albums for Prince and David Byrne—and hypnotherapist Daniel Ryan, we explore ...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 35:28
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Get a humorous account of the holiday season with Kansas blogger Jen Mann's book SPENDING THE HOLIDAYS WITH PEOPLE I WANT TO PUNCH IN THE THROAT. S...

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Last week Kolkata was busy celebrating a birthday with flowers, candles, cards and songs. It was Mother Teresa’s 106th birthday/ By the time the n...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
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An unusual and irreverent comic strip about a misfit cat served as inspiration to 20th century poet e e cummings.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2016
  • Length: :58
Caption: J. California Cooper, Credit: Ellen Banner / The New York Times
J. California Cooper loved playing with paper dolls--even as an adult.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
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Responding to his editor about why he wrote his most famous children's novel, E.B. White replied in characteristic good humor.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2016
  • Length: :58
Caption: Frank O'Hara
American poet Frank O'Hara got into trouble with his overbearing mother.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2016
  • Length: :58
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A Public Service Announcement For Neurotransmitters

  • Added: Jun 12, 2015
  • Length: 05:14
Caption: Marc Estrin
Writer Marc Estrin shares his pearls of wisdom from school. There were only three.

  • Added: May 13, 2015
  • Length: 04:22