Zoomer Radio’s Garden Show host is noted author, columnist, radio and HGTV personality Charlie Dobbin. She’ll update you with each week’s gardening tips and professional advice, while taking your calls and having some fun with gardening as well. Every Saturday from 9-10am on Zoomer Radio AM740 and FM96.7
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Listeners ask about roses: super tall this year, early defoliation and how to avoid disease in the future? Lawns: when & what order to apply(1) nematodes,(2) fall fertilizer,(3) topdressing and seed?When to prune Magnolia and 'Bloomerang' lilac also topical this week.Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer Radio…
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Autumn Is All About Repair and Rejuvenation!
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Though it's not technically autumn, the shorter days and cooler weather has us all in a fall kind of mind. Now is the perfect time for lawn repair, old privet hedge rejuvenation, and Iris division.Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer RadioAv Zoomer Podcast Network
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How do you keep fall mums alive over the winter?
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Propagating beets, growing dormant perennials and overwintering Hydrangeas in pots are a few of our topics today on the Garden Show.Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer RadioAv Zoomer Podcast Network
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Callers are interested in tomato blight, slugs, fall fertilizing and black spot on roses. Charlie is all about eating peppers, eggplants, carrots, tomatoes and herbs. Time for a BLT!Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer RadioAv Zoomer Podcast Network
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How to Control Plants Out of Control!
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Trumpet vine, goutweed and lily of the valley roaming the neighborhood. Slugs galore, diseased roses and more. All on the Garden Show this week!Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer RadioAv Zoomer Podcast Network
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How Important is Organic Matter in Soil?
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Potting mix toxicity for cats, carrots going to seed, early defoliation of trees, and a long-time gardener wants to know about amending her soil. And more, of course, about Hydrangeas!Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer RadioAv Zoomer Podcast Network
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Green Tomatoes and Pesky Mosquitoes!
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Lots of rain means lots of mosquitoes. One caller has a novel solution. Tomatoes with no flowers and chipmunks tunneling beneath the air conditioner. What to do? Listen to this week's episode of the Garden Show.Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer RadioAv Zoomer Podcast Network
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When to harvest garlic, how and when to prune rose of Sharon, including a lecture on appropriate soil amendments. Is it ok to add eggshells, wood ash and coffee grounds to your garden soil? Find out on this week's episode of the Garden Show.Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer RadioAv Zoomer Podcast Network
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Will Boxwood Survive in the Long Term?
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Yellow leaves on Katsura, box tree moth persistence and a tiny Redbud in a pot are all covered this week. Plus, how to feed Venus flytrap? Hollyhock from seed, pesky deer flies and more on the Garden Show!Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer RadioAv Zoomer Podcast Network
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Squirrels stealing peaches, aphids on petunias, scale on Magnolia and fungus on cherry trees. It's that time of year when we look for solutions and plan to better prevent problems next season.Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer RadioAv Zoomer Podcast Network
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Spotty leaves, Wilting Clematis, not Mention Hungry Rabbits!
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Overgrown tropicals, Hydrangea leaf-tiers and white fly on Hibiscus. Disappearing trilliums and beans being munched by rabbits. It's a busy show full of pesky pests!Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer RadioAv Zoomer Podcast Network
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Poison ivy, invasive lawn weeds, Lily leaf beetles and horse tails (Equisetum) - all really not wanted. What to do? Listen up tips and tricks this week on The Garden Show!Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer RadioAv Zoomer Podcast Network
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From Plumeria, peony and Dipladenia not blooming, to boxwood and dogwood failing to thrive, to well preserved refrigerated tulip bulbs - the garden show is full of fun and entertaining information this week!Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer RadioAv Zoomer Podcast Network
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What to do in a small yard with a 15 year old Autumn Blaze maple tree? Lovely tree with no room to really expand. Ant hills, non-blooming Lilacs, Hibiscus and orchids, and how come mushrooms are growing in the lawn? Busy show this week!Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer RadioAv Zoomer Podcast Network
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The Box Tree Moth is wreaking havoc on many gardens in southern Ontario and beyond. We discuss identifying the pest, pesticides (BTK) to control, and callers chime in with best replacements for boxwood. Overgrown lilac, and the search for Campanula isophylla also covered this week on the Garden Show.Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer Radio…
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Watering, Pruning, Transplanting and More!
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Paul Gellatly aka The Tattooed Gardener.ca joins Dean and Charlie in studio for a rollicking show. The 'piss-off plant' (Plectranthus caninus) is said to keep cats and other mammals away. Pruning Hydrangeas, whether to dead-head petunias and controlling what might be Robber Flies are all discussed.Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer Radio…
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Lots going in in our gardens - transplanting rhubarb, black spot on roses (so early!), whether to change potting mix from year to year, cutting back perennials, making and using compost, and 30 year old Wisteria that needs a new support. Whew!Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer RadioAv Zoomer Podcast Network
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