Episodes

2 hours ago
2 hours ago
Mountain Gardeners Ken and Lisa Lain search all over for the newest, healthiest, most spectacular plants to add to your garden paradise each year, and this summer brings some beautiful additions – stunning and colorful crepe myrtles, luscious lavenders, multi-colored rose varieties, and so much more.
🌺Ken & Lisa Lain, the Mountain Gardeners
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2 days ago
2 days ago
There’s nothing better than cooking with produce fresh from your garden! And there’s nothing like the frustration when your veggies shrivel and your tomatoes rot! Mountain Gardener Ken Lain shares how to avoid these garden veggie pitfalls and grow the biggest, healthiest and most nutritious garden veggies ever. Learn the right soils, fertilizers, watering schedules and pest control for the best garden veggie yield ever!
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Ken Lain, The Mountain Gardener
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3 days ago
🪻 Q and A: Garden Lavender Dos & Don’ts
3 days ago
3 days ago
Lavender is a beautiful addition to your garden landscape, and caring for it is easy if you know the dos and don’ts. Mountain Gardeners Ken and Lisa Lain share the colors and varieties of lavender that will add beauty and fragrance to your garden, and best practices for planting, watering and care!
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🌹Ken & Lisa Lain, The Mountain Gardeners
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4 days ago
🌻 Simple Steps to Heal Your Sick Garden
4 days ago
4 days ago
You put a lot of effort into your garden, so when leaves begin to curl, your tomatoes have issues, your veggies shrivel and die, and your flowers wilt, it’s disappointing and frustrating. Mountain Gardener Ken Lain shares simple steps for how to help your garden plants thrive again!
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🥕Ken Lain, The Mountain Gardener
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5 days ago
5 days ago
Hey garden enthusiasts, Ken & Lisa Watters Lain, The Mountain Gardeners here!
Get ready to catch Ken and Lisa's gardening bug! They're bursting with knowledge and passion for growing beautiful things, and they're ready to share it all with you.
Don't miss out on this chance to level up your gardening game!
Included in This Week’s Show:
🪴Why Plants Need Summer Food to Thrive
🌳 Q and A: Arborist Guide to Healing Really Big Trees
🌸 The Secret to Forcing Plants to Bloom Again
🪴The Best Sedums of Summer
🌺 Plants that Grow with Less Effort
🌻 Sip & Shop with Watters Garden Center on July 24th!
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🎙️Ken & Lisa Lain, The Mountain Gardeners
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6 days ago
6 days ago
What’s more fun than an after-hours gathering with fellow gardeners and sharing your favorite summer gardening stories, sipping sangria and sampling cheeses while seeing what’s new and exotic at the Garden Center? Join us on July 24th from 4-6 pm for Sip & Shop at Watters Garden Center!
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7 days ago
🌺 Plants that Grow With Less Effort
7 days ago
7 days ago
We all love a beautiful landscape, but the required planting, care, watering, and feeding might be more than we have time for with our busy lives. You can still have a colorful landscape and enjoy its beauty if you plan for easy-to-grow and easy care plant varieties, and Mountain Gardener Ken Lain tells you today about easy care landscape plants such as Cotoneaster, Silverberry and Sumac.
🌺Ken Lain, The Mountain Gardener
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Thursday Jul 10, 2025
🪴The Best Sedums of Summer
Thursday Jul 10, 2025
Thursday Jul 10, 2025
Perennial Sedum are known for their distinctive fleshy foliage and come in a vast range of shapes and sizes—from upright varieties to low-growing groundcovers that put on a spectacular show of colorful foliage and blooms from late summer to fall. They’re a great addition to any landscape. Mountain Gardeners Ken and Lisa Lain tell us the best, most beautiful sedum and how to plant and care for them!
🌼 Ken & Lisa Lain, the Mountain Gardeners
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Wednesday Jul 09, 2025
🌸 The Secret to Forcing Plants to Bloom Again
Wednesday Jul 09, 2025
Wednesday Jul 09, 2025
If you’ve enjoyed spectacular blooms on your favorite garden plants, you’ll want to see them bloom throughout the summer and into the fall. Mountain Gardener Ken Lain shares how to force your colorful, blooming plants to make another display!
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Ken Lain, The Mountain Gardener
#WattersGardenCenter, #GardeningTips, #TheMountainGardener, #KenLain, #WattersOrganicFertilizer, #FlowerReblooming, #ExtendedGardenBlooms, #GardenFlowerCare

Tuesday Jul 08, 2025
🌳 Q and A: Arborist Guide to Healing Really Big Trees
Tuesday Jul 08, 2025
Tuesday Jul 08, 2025
If you have a big, beloved tree in your landscape and it’s beginning to look sick and stressed, it’s a real worry. Can you save it and make it thrive again? Mountain Gardeners Ken and Lisa Lain tells us how to tell if your tree can be saved, and what steps to make it happen! Learn how to identify problems in big trees, and how to care for them and bring them back to beauty.
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🌹Ken & Lisa Lain, The Mountain Gardeners
#WattersGardenCenter, #GardeningTips, #TheMountainGardener, #KenLain, #HealingBigTrees, #BigTreeCare, #TreeCareinArizonaHighlands

Monday Jul 07, 2025
🪴Why Plants Need Summer Food to Thrive
Monday Jul 07, 2025
Monday Jul 07, 2025
Your plants in the Central Highlands of Arizona have a lot to overcome in the summer – heat, growth, wind, occasional torrential rain, and pests. Feeding your plants with a great, organic fertilizer will make sure they’re strong enough to face the challenges and thrive through the summer months. Mountain Gardener Ken Lain tells us what kind of fertilizers are good for your summer garden, and how to best apply them.
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🥕Ken Lain, The Mountain Gardener
#WattersGardenCenter, #GardeningTips, #TheMountainGardener, #KenLain, #WattersPlantFood, #WattersOrganic Fertilizer, #SummerGardenCare

Sunday Jul 06, 2025
Sunday Jul 06, 2025
Hey garden enthusiasts, Ken & Lisa Watters Lain, The Mountain Gardeners here!
Get ready to catch Ken and Lisa's gardening bug! They're bursting with knowledge and passion for growing beautiful things, and they're ready to share it all with you.
Don't miss out on this chance to level up your gardening game!
Included in This Week’s Show:
🪻Lavender - The Fantastic Five for a Fabulous Fragrant Gardens
🌳 Q and A: What is Better - Single or Multi Trunk Aspen?
🪴Organic Plant Foods for Healthier Plants in the Garden
🐇 Rabbit Proof Plants Perfect for Every Garden
🪻Lush Lavender Secrets to Keep them Blooming all Season
🌸 What’s Causing My Flowers to Stop Blooming and Disappear?
Subscribe to The Top 10 Gardener Podcast today and get your hands dirty with expert tips and tricks. You'll find it on all your favorite podcast platforms. To Watch the Entire Podcast Show, Tap or Click on the Link Below Subscribe for Top 10 Gardener updates!
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🎙️Ken & Lisa Lain, The Mountain Gardeners
#WattersGardenCenter, #WattersGardencenterAZ, #TheMountainGardener, #GardeningTips, #KenLain, #AspenTreeCare, #LavenderVarieties, #LavenderSecrets, #RabbitproofPlants&Flowers, #SummerGardenPests #WattersFreeGardenClasses

Saturday Jul 05, 2025
🌸 What’s Causing My Flowers to Stop Blooming and Disappear?
Saturday Jul 05, 2025
Saturday Jul 05, 2025
If you’re wondering what’s eating the flowers and plants you’ve worked all spring and summer to plant and care for, Mountain Gardener Ken Lain has the answers for you! Learn about common pests such as caterpillars and tomato worms and how to keep them off your plants and veggies.
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#WattersGardenCenter, #GardeningTips, #TheMountainGardener, #KenLain, #FreeGardenClasses, #WattersFreeGardenClasses, #GardenQuestions

Friday Jul 04, 2025
🪻Lush Lavender Secrets to Keep them Blooming all Season
Friday Jul 04, 2025
Friday Jul 04, 2025
You’ve learned about the five kinds of lavenders, and perhaps added some of them to your garden. They’re beautiful and hardy, but a little extra care will ensure they’ll provide a lovely backdrop in your garden into the fall. Learn from Mountain Gardener Ken Lain how to keep these garden staples blooming and thriving into the fall!
🌺Ken Lain, The Mountain Gardener
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Thursday Jul 03, 2025
🐇 Rabbit Proof Plants Perfect for Every Garden
Thursday Jul 03, 2025
Thursday Jul 03, 2025
Rabbits are cute, but they can decimate your garden, especially if you have a lot of these critters in your landscape! Now you can enjoy the wildlife and your garden at the same time!
Mountain Gardeners Ken and Lisa Lain tell us the best, most beautiful plants that the rabbits will leave alone!
🪴Ken & Lisa Lain, the Mountain Gardeners
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#WattersGardenCenter, #GardeningTips, #TheMountainGardener, #KenLain, #RabbitProofPlants, #FlowersRabbitsLeaveAlone, #Wildlife&Flowers