New Southern Garden Nathan Wilson
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Each week our host, Nathan Wilson, brings you current gardening topics, how-to’s, and answers your landscape questions. From vegetables to trees and shrubs, soil and seed-starting, Nathan brings you time-tested and researched information to make your southern garden successful. Things are changing in the south, so should the way we garden. Let’s grow something new…together.
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Ep. 262- Notes on Growing Fruits
This week, Nathan talks about some of the easiest and more challenging fruits to grow in your home orchard! From blueberries to blackberries and apples to muscadines, Nathan gets you started on your fruity journey.
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Ep. 261- Native Plants for Your Water Gardens
This week, Nathan goes to the water garden to help you plant some wonderful native plants directly into the muck! The southeast has some wonderful plants that thrive in the wettest conditions. Nathan talks about both plants that grow in the water and plants that grow along the banks and marginal areas. Fragrant white waterlily, American lotus, Pickerelweed, and buttonbush have no problem being nearly submerged, but beardtongue, blazing star, swamp milkweed, and cardinal flower love to be right on the edge of the pond. If you don't have a water garden, no problem, you can start one today with something as simple as a bucket!
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Ep. 260- March Q&A Week: Moles, Voles, Wisteria, and Water Pipes
This week, Nathan answers all the questions that have been burning through your March gardens! Do you have moles? Do you have voles? Is there a difference and what can you do about them? Nathan helps Lee Ann deal with those irritating mammals in the landscape. Invasive wisteria is taking over Joshua's garden, but Nathan has both organic and non-organic options to help control it. Lastly, Kaye wants to build an arbor near a water line but wonders if the vines planted by the arbor will do damage to the water pipes. Nathan gives two situations that might be a concern and recommends certain plants to grow over water lines and some that should be planted elsewhere. Be sure to send us your gardening questions for our April Q&A week episode!
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Ep. 259- Spring Blooming Perennials for Shady Spots
If you're growing under shade, you might think that you are limited in what you can grow. Even though that's partially true, shade creates an opportunity to grow a unique group of plants that you rarely, if ever, see in sunny sites. This week, Nathan helps you turn your shade "crisis" into a wonderful opportunity! He talks about a number of blooming perennials that are outstanding in the shade, including barrenwort, lungwort, bleeding heart, brunnera, heuchera, astilbe, polemonium, and lamium. With a list like this, you'll quickly be able to brighten up even the darkest spots in your garden!
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Ep. 258- Preparing Your Winter Garden for Spring
Is it still winter? Has spring started yet? Some days are hot. Some nights are cold. This week, Nathan talks about preparing your winter garden for spring. He walks you through several gardening tasks, discusses the best (and worst) time to perform them, and encourages you to do several that are timely right now! From planning and designing to weeding and feeding, Nathan helps you prepare your garden for spring!
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Ep. 257- Pruning Talk!
This week, Nathan talks about pruning! As the growing season gets closer and closer, it's time to take a serious assessment of what might need to be pruned in your garden. Nathan hits on all the major points when it comes to pruning to get you pruning at the right time, using the right equipment, where to make a cut, and more!
Customer Reviews
Carolina Girl
Love your show. I’m a Garden Center owner and love learning anythig new about Gods loved plant world. You never know it all or you forget it at my age lol.
Great for brown thumbs!
I’ve always tried growing plants but usually fail at it! Nathan gives you detailed information on new (and old) plants that has helped my garden so much! He really helps clarify some of the most complicated things too. Glad to have found this gardening gem even though I’m not in “the south.”
Toxic Chemical cheerleading
How people so knowledgeable about the plants cannot figure out how to grow them without toxic and persistent chemicals and poisons is just baffling.
There are so many options out there that don’t require the use of these.
This was sad.
I was looking forward to a show about Southern regions gardening as there aren’t many to choose from compared to the Northern and Western regions.