In Lorena, Texas, Elizabeth Simcik DeMaria’s dreamy garden charms abundant wildlife and imaginative souls. Her desserts are just as popular when she joins husband Jeff and son Blake at the family’s Waco restaurant, Tony DeMaria’s Barbecue. When she and Jeff married, they also fell in love with five acres of pasture land. -We moved out…
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Gardening Under Lights with Leslie Halleck |Central Texas Gardener
Are you ready to garden under lights? Well, I hope so cause we’re joined by Leslie Halleck, author of a brand new book Gardening Under Lights and welcome to Central Texas Gardener. – Thank you so much for having me, I’m excited to be here. – [Tom] This is a topic, seems like it’s growing…
Plant Propagation| Leslie Halleck| Central Texas Gardener
– Are you ready to be a plant parent? Well, you will be in about 10 minutes, because our guest, Leslie Halleck, is the author of “Plant Parenting”. And welcome back to Central Texas Gardeners, great to have you. – Thank you so much, I’m so excited to be here again. – Plant propagation, a…
Homemade fungicides | John Dromgoole | Central Texas Gardener
Hello gardening friends! Welcome to Backyard Basics, I’m John Brown well I’m in the kitchen right now kinda there’s a lot of things that we can do at home to work as a fungicide on our plants. We begin to see fungal problems. And let me show you what one looks like actually. This is…
Panayoti Kelaidis, Denver Botanic Gardens |Central Texas Gardener
– Today we’re talking with Panayoti Kelaidis, or AKA, PK. – That’s right. – For short. You’re the senior curator and director of Outreach at the Denver Botanic Gardens? – I am indeed. – One of your specialities is really the cultivation of native alpine and zeric species? – Absolutely, yeah. When I started at…
Squash Vine Borer Control |Trisha Shirey |Central Texas Gardener
Many gardeners are reluctant to grow squash because of the dreaded squash vine borer. Squash has been genetically modified now to enable commercial growers to avoid problems with vine borers, but you want to grow your squash organically like I do I’m sure. The squash vine borer moth is black and orange with clear wings,…
Texas Sabal Palm Fronds Yellowing |Daphne Richards |Central Texas Gardener
– Drought and heat take a toll on our trees. Vincent Campos has a sabal palm and is concerned about the yellowing fronds. Vincent notes that they water with drip irrigation on a regular basis and use a slow release palm tree food every three months. Overall, these trees look really healthy to me. The…
Pretty, Winter Edibles to Grow |Molly Pikarsky |Central Texas Gardener
– When planting winter flowers, we often think of the tried and true superstars like violas, pansies and ornamental kale. These are fantastic choices, but you can get creative with some of the winter edibles and plant a knockout flower bed or container that will endure all winter. I have had wonderful success with some…
Tomato Superstars |Bill Adams |Central Texas Gardener
Alright thanks so much for sharing your garden with us and right now get your taste buds ready because we’re going to talk tomatoes and we have the expert with us. Bill Adams is joining us. Bill is a garden author, extraordinaire, spent 30 years is an AgriLife Extension agent in harris county in houston…
Tennis court turned into delicious, soothing gardens: Suzanne Novak and Bill Nemeth
These days Suzanne Novak and Bill Nemeth volley tips about their orchard or the vegetables and roses in raised limestone beds. But when they bought their house above wild basin in the 90s, this was all a regulation tennis court. – We don’t play tennis. Our dogs played on it, and our daughter learned how…