Episodes
Friday Jul 25, 2025
🌳 Fast Growing Plants for Thick Privacy Screens in the Landscape
Friday Jul 25, 2025
Friday Jul 25, 2025
Sometimes improving your landscape means a screen between your home and the neighbors, or an unsightly part of your yard. Mountain Gardener Ken Lain shares the fastest growing, thickest plants and how to care for them to add privacy and beauty to your landscape.
🌺 Ken Lain, The Mountain Gardener
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Thursday Jul 24, 2025
🌼 Best Summer Flowers for the Perennial Gardens
Thursday Jul 24, 2025
Thursday Jul 24, 2025
Summer is in full bloom, and so are perennial flowers at Watters Garden Center! Mountain Gardeners Ken and Lisa Lain tell us the most spectacular perennials for the summer garden. They’re in full bloom right now and the best part is that they’ll winter over and delight you again next season!
🌺Ken & Lisa Lain, the Mountain Gardeners
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Wednesday Jul 23, 2025
🐜 How to Keep Tiny Black Ants out out of Your Kitchen and Home
Wednesday Jul 23, 2025
Wednesday Jul 23, 2025
Ants build hills in your landscape and trails in your kitchen, and they can inflict some painful stings. Mountain Gardener Ken Lain shares how to keep those tiny, annoying black ants out of your home and garden!
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Tuesday Jul 22, 2025
🌳 Q and A: Top Shade Trees for the Verde Valley
Tuesday Jul 22, 2025
Tuesday Jul 22, 2025
While gardening in the Verde Valley is in many ways similar to the Prescott area, but there are some differences that challenge gardeners. The Verde Valley climate is warmer, and growing healthy shade trees can help beat the heat. Mountain Gardeners Ken and Lisa Lain talk about the best shade trees for the Verde Valley and how to help them thrive
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🌹Ken & Lisa Lain, The Mountain Gardeners
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Monday Jul 21, 2025
🐌 Organically control Snails, Slugs and Ants the Easy Way
Monday Jul 21, 2025
Monday Jul 21, 2025
After all the care you put into your garden, you’ll want to make sure snails, slugs and ants don’t come to munch on your flowers and veggies! Snails and slugs can do some real damage, and ants can sting and create trails through your garden. Mountain Gardener Ken Lain shares the effective steps to quickly evict snails, slugs and ants!
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🥕Ken Lain, The Mountain Gardener
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Sunday Jul 20, 2025
Sunday Jul 20, 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:
🌻 Simple Steps to Heal Your Sick Garden
🪻 Q and A: Garden Lavender Dos & Don’ts
🍅 Shriveling Vegetables and Blossom End Rot in the Garden
🌼 Hottest New Plants at Watters Garden Center
🌿 Interview with Chris Shipley, Civano Growers
🪴View Our Best Garden Events on Social Media!
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🎙️Ken & Lisa Lain, The Mountain Gardeners
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Saturday Jul 19, 2025
🪴View Our Best Garden Events on Social Media!
Saturday Jul 19, 2025
Saturday Jul 19, 2025
From free garden classes tailored to the Central Highlands of Arizona, beautiful plants chosen to suit our local garden conditions, special sales and rollouts of new plants and flowers, fun garden events at the garden center, and a garden club just for you, Watters Garden Center has everything to help you enjoy your garden more than you ever have before, and meet garden friends that share your passion. Mountain Gardener Ken Lain shares how to access all of the great garden news and wisdom available from Watters!
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Thursday Jul 17, 2025
🌼 Hottest New Plants at Watters Garden Center!
Thursday Jul 17, 2025
Thursday Jul 17, 2025
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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Wednesday Jul 16, 2025
🍅 Shriveling Vegetables and Blossom End Rot in the Garden
Wednesday Jul 16, 2025
Wednesday Jul 16, 2025
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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Tuesday Jul 15, 2025
🪻 Q and A: Garden Lavender Dos & Don’ts
Tuesday Jul 15, 2025
Tuesday Jul 15, 2025
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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Monday Jul 14, 2025
🌻 Simple Steps to Heal Your Sick Garden
Monday Jul 14, 2025
Monday Jul 14, 2025
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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Sunday Jul 13, 2025
Sunday Jul 13, 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:
🪴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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Saturday Jul 12, 2025
🌸 Sip & Shop with Watters Garden Center on July 24th!
Saturday Jul 12, 2025
Saturday Jul 12, 2025
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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Friday Jul 11, 2025
🌺 Plants that Grow With Less Effort
Friday Jul 11, 2025
Friday Jul 11, 2025
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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