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You Bet Your Garden

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You Bet Your Garden

Find out how wood mulch can actually be useful in your landscape

Mike McGrath explains how to prune hydrangeas and fruit trees, picking the right grass for your climate, composting wit ...

Air Date: May 17, 2014

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You Bet Your Garden

What’s the difference between straw and hay?

What’s the difference between straw and hay? Mike McGrath reveals how one makes a nice mulch and the other is seed fo ...

Air Date: May 10, 2014

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You Bet Your Garden

How to make compost WITHOUT fall leaves

Mike McGrath shares tips for gardening in the Northwest, using sheep for weed control, how to care for a row of blue sp ...

Air Date: May 3, 2014

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You Bet Your Garden

Does your lawn have mysterious runways and chewed up plants? We may have the answer.

Mysterious runways in your lawn? Missing Spring bulbs, and plants chewed close to the ground? Mike McGrath, host of You ...

Air Date: April 26, 2014

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You Bet Your Garden

You won’t believe what you CAN put in your compost pile

Mike McGrath explains how to treat an infested Harry Lauder’s Walking Stick bush, what to do to prevent a major slug ...

Air Date: April 19, 2014

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You Bet Your Garden

Did this miserable winter wipeout mildew and blight?

Mike McGrath chats with listeners about tamarind trees, how to build and fill a raised bed garden, how to plant for pri ...

Air Date: April 12, 2014

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You Bet Your Garden

Planting in memory of a loved one and caring for orchids

Mike McGrath explains how to avoid verticillium wilt, the basics of starting a successful strawberry patch, ridding woo ...

Air Date: April 5, 2014

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You Bet Your Garden

Brighten your landscape with forsythia

Mike McGrath explains how to divide hardy hostas, tips and tricks for planting garlic, how to avoid noxious lawn treatm ...

Air Date: March 29, 2014

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You Bet Your Garden

Plants that ignite the senses

Mike McGrath explains the benefits of ladybugs, how to turn a peach pit into a peach tree, why it’s best to keep ...

Air Date: March 22, 2014

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You Bet Your Garden

The magnificent monarch may be fighting extinction

Mike McGrath guides listeners in the patience required for growing asparagus, reviving a withering cherry laurel, start ...

Air Date: March 15, 2014

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You Bet Your Garden

Winter damage: Can this plant be saved?

Has this miserable winter done damage to your poor plants? Mike McGrath discusses how to tell if those precious plants ...

Air Date: March 8, 2014

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You Bet Your Garden

Have a beautiful lawn, naturally

One of the biggest myths in America is that lawns need to be chemically drenched to look good. Mike McGrath reveals the ...

Air Date: February 28, 2014

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You Bet Your Garden

Let worms turn your garbage into black gold

Mike McGrath explains how to transplant a potted hydrangea to your garden, what conditions raspberries require to thriv ...

Air Date: February 22, 2014

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You Bet Your Garden

Ways to perk up your raised beds

Does the soil in raised beds get old and tired over time? Mike McGrath, host of You Bet Your Garden, will look at the p ...

Air Date: February 15, 2014

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You Bet Your Garden

Valentine’s gifts for your special gardener

Mike McGrath explains how to update the soil in your raised bed, the best way to save a river birch tree, tips for gar ...

Air Date: February 8, 2014

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