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Jackass clover is Wislizenia refracta and the botanical name of clammy weed is Polanisia dodecandra. They are both in the Cleome family Cleomaceae....

  • Added: Sep 21, 2020
  • Length: 04:36
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The Utah Board of Water Resources proposes to construct, operate and maintain the 141-mile long Lake Powell Pipeline, a project that would convey w...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2020
  • Length: 18:53
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You know you haven’t been hiking or botanizing out in the desert or grassland enough when you look to the roadsides for interesting plants, but I’l...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2020
  • Length: 05:13
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On this episode of YBYG Mike takes you to the 3rd season into the Fall with tips for autumn. Plus your fabulous phone calls!!

  • Added: Sep 09, 2020
  • Length: 54:58
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Hummingbird trumpet has had quite a few botanical names and I’m still not sure that I got the current botanical right in this episode. I called it ...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 05:01
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On this episode of YBYG, Mike gets you ready to save your seeds for next years garden. Plus your fabulous phone calls!!

  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 54:58
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At my age I should probably being thinking more of getting rid of clutter rather than adding to it. I tell our daughters that some day they can hav...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2020
  • Length: 05:17
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On this Centennial Episode of YBYG Mike takes a fresh look at the most sought after question of the week; Can Porch Painting to make Ghosts AND Was...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2020
  • Length: 54:58
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It is Garlic planting time and on this episode of YBYG, Mike takes you through the steps to get the Happiest Garlic Harvest, EVER!! And your fabulo...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2020
  • Length: 54:58
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Many years ago when I was running a nursery in Tucson, Arizona I was invited by a landscape architecture firm to supply the all plants for a landsc...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2020
  • Length: 04:48
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The scientific name for our gopher snake (or gophersnake. I’ve seen it written both ways) is Pituophis catenifer. The genus name looks like a combi...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2020
  • Length: 05:30
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In this episode of You Bet Your Garden Mike teaches you "When to Pick your Produce. Plus your fabulous phone calls!!

  • Added: Aug 12, 2020
  • Length: 54:58
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Since producing this episode of Growing Native we have encountered Jatropha macrorhiza a couple more times. A recent sighting was over near the New...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2020
  • Length: 05:17
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In this new episode of YBYG Mike covers 4 topics in the Question of the week; Tomato Rot, Compost, Woodchips & Cuke FREE Cucumbers!! Plus your fab...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2020
  • Length: 54:58
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Raspberries are in the rose family, Rosaceae, the genus Rubus and with six species in Arizona. Five are native species and one introduced. Rubus id...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 05:17
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Phemeranthus aurantiacus, the former Talinum aurantiacum, is now in Talinaceae, the flameflower family, “a family of two genera and 28 species.” Th...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2020
  • Length: 04:45
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On this fresh look at an episode of You Bet Your Garden, host Mike McGrath takes you through ALL the HAPPY TIPS to get your tomatoes in the ground!...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2020
  • Length: 54:58
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From our secure, undisclosed Mojave Desert radio studio, tonight we bring you our 100th episode, with strange tales of the Amboy Ghost Lights and a...

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  • Added: Jul 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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San Miguelito (Antigonon leptopus) is quite the Mexican native plant. I read that it’s found in habitat not only in Sonora and Chihuahua and southw...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2020
  • Length: 05:19
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On this "Fresher Look" at an episode of You Bet Your Garden, host Mike McGrath reveals rosemary's true abilities of alertness and memory. Plus, he ...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2020
  • Length: 54:58
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I think that the common name of orange sneezeweed may be a bit misleading. The flowers we saw and photographed were more on the yellow side, but th...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2020
  • Length: 05:18
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The Bighorn Fire in the Catalina Mountains near Tucson, AZ. started on June 5th of 2020 and as I sit and write this a few weeks later on June 30th ...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2020
  • Length: 05:16
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On this episode of YBYG Mike warns of LAWN CLIPPINGS that may contain remaining chemicals that can hurt your Compost piles and your Plants!! Plus ...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2020
  • Length: 54:58
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On this episode of YBYG Mike McGrath answers a 4 part Question of the Week! With Deer & Evil Squirrels, Cartoon Dice, Killing a Lawn softly, and ...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2020
  • Length: 54:58
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The miller moths that showed up at our little homestead are the adult of the army cutworm (Euxoa auxiliaris) and they migrate from lower areas and ...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2020
  • Length: 05:26