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On today's YBYG, host Mike McGrath answers your holiday related gardening questions as well as suggests a few more last-minute gift ideas.
- Added: Dec 18, 2019
- Length: 54:58
The scientific name for Mearns quail is Cyrtonyx montezumae. The genus refers to its big claws for scratching around in desert soils. It has big fe...
- Added: Dec 12, 2019
- Length: 05:07
On today's YBYG, Mike McGrath reveals ways to severely reduce the number of ticks in your yard as well as how to guarantee you won't get bitten. Pl...
- Added: Dec 11, 2019
- Length: 54:58
Would you pay eight-thousand dollars to impress your friends with a pineapple? No? Well, the Victorians did.
- Added: Nov 24, 2019
- Length: 08:19
When the US and Canadian governments decided the border between our two countries, a few places got left on the "wrong" side of the line. Those pla...
- Added: Nov 24, 2019
- Length: 08:03
Author Garth Stein talks with Sarah Bearup-Neal.
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- Added: Nov 19, 2019
- Length: 54:30
- Purchases: 1
The photos are mine and of the plant Pseudognaphalium leucocephalum. It sure is nice to have some white flowers mixed in with the oceans of yellow ...
- Added: Nov 13, 2019
- Length: 05:13
Xanthisma gracilis is an annual and found all over the southwest and into Mexico as well. Duh. A common name is slender goldenweed or spiny zinnia....
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 05:14
The 29th Ig Nobel Prize ceremony took place on September 12 at Harvard University.
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 16:33
A Fresh Look! Mike McGrath talks about what to do if the spirit of Martha Stewart is haunting you to pick up your pruners and landscape & why your ...
- Added: Oct 22, 2019
- Length: 54:59
We’re talking all things compost on this episode of You Bet Your Garden with Mike McGrath! He’ll walk us through compost conundrums and queries & a...
- Added: Oct 15, 2019
- Length: 54:59
On this episode of You Bet Your Garden, Mike McGrath explains why now is NOT the time to cut back overgrown plants, despite the fact that your cli...
- Added: Oct 08, 2019
- Length: 54:59
We take a fresh look! On this episode of You Bet Your Garden, Mike McGrath tells us why ivy growing up a tree may or may not be a reason insurance...
- Added: Sep 25, 2019
- Length: 54:59
On this episode of YBYG, host Mike McGrath helps us name that pest and tell us what to do if Sawflies are wilting down your willow trees. Plus, we ...
- Added: Sep 18, 2019
- Length: 54:59
Ralph, the philosophy professor, tries to apply logic to everything.
- Added: Sep 17, 2019
- Length: 14:04
Deer need to eat 6-10 pounds of greenery a day, but what plants can you grow in your garden that aren’t on their list of top options? On today’s ep...
- Added: Sep 11, 2019
- Length: 54:59
More Jimmy Nistico and Jazz Express, Hacksaw Tom hosts. Continuing our monthly live concert, we hear the long-time horn man leading a quintet along...
- Added: Aug 14, 2019
- Length: 58:00
On this episode of You Bet Your Garden, host Mike McGrath tells us if service berry deserves tough love if its been growing in a nursery bed for a ...
- Added: Aug 06, 2019
- Length: 54:59
The shade loving Hosta plant was the hot topic in a recent show, but we’re changing our tune. Instead of learning how to eradicate the plant, host ...
- Added: Jul 23, 2019
- Length: 54:59
Mike McGrath talks to Special Guest author Summer Rain Oaks, "Plant-fluencer"!! And as always, YOUR FABULOUS Phone Calls!!
- Added: Jul 10, 2019
- Length: 54:59
Big word for a genetic mutation where an animal is split with one side being entirely female and the other male. This can happen in some species of...
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- Added: Jul 04, 2019
- Length: 05:14
- Purchases: 1
A collaborative "Short List" poem which sheds light on the thoughts, secrets, senses of humor and lives of eight and nine-year-olds. Can you figure...
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- Added: Jul 03, 2019
- Length: :48
- Purchases: 1
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
Medical science on the fly. Turns out you only need to pull a few G's to loosen that stubborn kidney stone.
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- Added: Jun 26, 2019
- Length: 03:24
- Purchases: 1
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