Episodes
Tuesday Jun 24, 2025
🌺 Q and A: How to Keep Flowers Blooming Through Summer
Tuesday Jun 24, 2025
Tuesday Jun 24, 2025
It’s so satisfying to see your garden work coming to fruition with big, colorful blooms, but it’s sometimes hard to keep them blooming through summer’s heat, wind and dry conditions. Mountain Gardeners Ken and Lisa Lain share with us how to keep your garden vibrant, healthy and colorful through the summer, and answer more garden questions!
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🌹Ken & Lisa Lain, The Mountain Gardeners
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Monday Jun 23, 2025
🌳 How to Bring Your Stressed Trees Back to Life
Monday Jun 23, 2025
Monday Jun 23, 2025
Arizona’s Central Highlands have challenging weather conditions of wind, drought and poor soils that can stress your trees. Learn this week from Mountain Gardener Ken Lain how to give your trees a new lease on life, and the best trees to plant for our unique climate and soils!
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🥕Ken Lain, The Mountain Gardener
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Sunday Jun 22, 2025
Sunday Jun 22, 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:
🪴 Top 10 Vines that Cover Fast
🌳 Q and A: Top 10 Screening Plants for Windy Locations
🫛Growing Better Beans & Peas in the Garden
🌺 Top 10 Shrubs for Summer Sizzling Fragrance
🌳 Top 10 Trees for Fast Shade in the Backyard
🐛Garden Alert: Pests are Ready to Destroy Your Plants!
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🎙️Ken & Lisa Lain, The Mountain Gardeners
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Saturday Jun 21, 2025
🐛Garden Alert: Pests are Ready to Destroy Your Plants!
Saturday Jun 21, 2025
Saturday Jun 21, 2025
Are you seeing signs of destruction in your garden? Curling leaves and flowers, something eating your fruits and vegetables, plants and leaves not thriving? It could be the army of pests just waiting to feast on all of your hard work! Mountain Gardener Ken Lain shares all of the hungry pests wreaking havoc on your garden – aphids, thrips, worms, squash bugs, and more. But the good news is that Ken has the answers to solve your pest problems so your garden will thrive again!
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Friday Jun 20, 2025
🌳 Top 10 Trees for Fast Shade in the Backyard
Friday Jun 20, 2025
Friday Jun 20, 2025
In Arizona’s sometimes brutal heat, great shade trees can make your yard a comforting oasis. If you’ve moved to a new or different home, or you’d like to have more shade in your landscape, Mountain Gardener Ken Lain tells us the best quickly growing shade trees and how to plant and care for them.
🌺Ken Lain, The Mountain Gardener
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Thursday Jun 19, 2025
🌺 Top 10 Shrubs for Summer Sizzling Fragrance
Thursday Jun 19, 2025
Thursday Jun 19, 2025
If you love sitting in your garden and enjoying the fruits of your labors, why not add more color and fragrance to the landscape? Mountain Gardener Ken Lain shares the top 10 shrubs that add spectacular color and fragrance to your garden!
🌺Ken & Lisa Lain, the Mountain Gardeners
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Wednesday Jun 18, 2025
🫛Growing Better Beans & Peas in the Garden
Wednesday Jun 18, 2025
Wednesday Jun 18, 2025
There’s nothing better than cooking with produce fresh from your garden! Mountain Gardener Ken Lain shares how to grow the biggest, healthiest and most nutritious beans and peas in your garden. Learn the right soils, fertilizers, watering schedules and pest control for the best bean and pea yield ever!
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Ken Lain, The Mountain Gardener
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Tuesday Jun 17, 2025
🌳 Q and A: Top 10 Screening Plants for Windy Locations
Tuesday Jun 17, 2025
Tuesday Jun 17, 2025
Looking to screen out the neighbors, create a private, relaxing area in your backyard, or add beauty to your landscape, but your location is subject to the Central Highlands’ constant winds? Mountain Gardeners Ken & Lisa Lain have answers for you! Learn which hardy and wind resistant screening plants will quickly create the effect you want.
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🌹Ken & Lisa Lain, The Mountain Gardeners
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Monday Jun 16, 2025
🪴 Top 10 Vines that Cover Fast
Monday Jun 16, 2025
Monday Jun 16, 2025
Do you have areas beyond your landscape that you would like to screen out, or would you like to create a private spot in your yard where you can sit and relax in a green oasis away from the world? Today, Mountain Gardener Ken Lain shares which vines will not only quickly cover fences or trellises, but add fragrance and beauty to your landscape.
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🥕Ken Lain, The Mountain Gardener
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Sunday Jun 15, 2025
Sunday Jun 15, 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:
🍅 How to Prevent Soil Sunburn while Promoting more Tomatoes and Peppers
🌸 Q and A: Top 10 Perennial Groundcovers for Hillsides
🌼 Flower Power Plant Food Promotes Really BIG Flowers
🌻 Perennials That Love Blooming in Summer
🌺 Why June is Perennial Month for the Garden
🌻 🌻 The Best Garden Club in Arizona!
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, #SummerGardening, #ContainerGardenTips, #Perennials, #HillsideGroundcover, #Pollinators, #ContainerFlowers, #FloweringShrubs, #SummerPerennials
Saturday Jun 14, 2025
🌻 The Best Garden Club in Arizona
Saturday Jun 14, 2025
Saturday Jun 14, 2025
It only happens every two years, so save the date for the 2025 Alta Vista Garden Club Tour! You’ll have the opportunity to visit and tour four specially curated Prescott area gardens and see what other experienced gardeners are doing in their garden spaces. And, expand your knowledge by joining the Watters Garden Center Garden Club and learn all the secrets of gardening in our unique climate! Find out about garden clubs and more garden wisdom today from Mountain Gardener Ken Lain!
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Friday Jun 13, 2025
🌺 Why June is Perennial Month for the Garden
Friday Jun 13, 2025
Friday Jun 13, 2025
What’s not to love about colorful, hardy blooms that come back year after year? Mountain Gardener Ken Lain tells us about the perennials that show off in June and make you want to live in your garden! You’ll learn about the best flowers, and how to water and fertilize for the best blooms.
🌼 Ken Lain, The Mountain Gardener
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Thursday Jun 12, 2025
🌻 Perennials That Love Blooming in Summer
Thursday Jun 12, 2025
Thursday Jun 12, 2025
As summer heats up, you’ll want to spend more time in your garden. A landscape full of thriving and colorful flowers is sure to enhance your outdoors time and impress your summer guests! In this episode, Mountain Gardeners Ken and Lisa Lain share the perennial flowers most likely to spice up your summer landscape!
🌺Ken & Lisa Lain, the Mountain Gardeners
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Wednesday Jun 11, 2025
🌼 Flower Power Plant Food Promotes Really BIG Flowers
Wednesday Jun 11, 2025
Wednesday Jun 11, 2025
Looking for the biggest boost for your garden flowers and vegetables? Watters’ specially formulated Flower Power fertilizer will keep your flowers and veggies producing wildly all summer! Mountain Gardener Ken Lain gives us all the particulars on this magic garden formula in today’s show! You’ll want to pick some up, then sit back and enjoy the results!
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Ken Lain, The Mountain Gardener
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Tuesday Jun 10, 2025
🌸 Q and A: Top 10 Perennial Groundcovers for Hillsides
Tuesday Jun 10, 2025
Tuesday Jun 10, 2025
Hillsides present a challenge to gardeners – watering is more difficult and finding the right groundcover that you don’t have to replace every year can be tough. Mountain Gardeners Ken and Lisa Lain talk about the top 10 perennials that can solve this landscape dilemma, and answer more garden questions from local gardeners in this week’s edition!
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🌹Ken & Lisa Lain, The Mountain Gardeners
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