Mountain Gardener with Ken & Lisa

Best Easy to Grow Roses and How to Make the Bloom

This week we go deep into the best irrigation techniques at the leading edge of Monsoon season.  We cover roses, the best varieties, local favorites and how to force blooms the rest of the year. Monsoon rains start our second planting season and we cover why and how to get the most out of your local landscapes.  You'll be a blooming pro after this weeks show. 

Right and Wrong way to Beautiful Container Gardens

We go deep into the best tips, tricks, and techniques that make container gardening in pots easy.  You will know exactly how to garden in containers, the soils, food and sizes that make gardening not only fun but stylish.  

Shade Trees and Summer Success

The mountains rains of summer makes July the ideal season to plant new trees.  It's also the time to feed everything in the yard.  We explore all the right and wrong season to plants and why July is Best.  You'll be a garden pro after this weeks show.

Best Summer Foods that Help Heat Stressed Plants

You will know the inner most workings of plant foods, the good, the bad and the organic.  Your plants will be super happy after this weeks podcast. 

Perennials and the Best Summer Planting Season

Some plants prefer the heat of the summer planting season.  We go deep into the best summer planting technique, correct irrigation, and the plants you just can't kill, no matter the heat.  The the plants that are stressed out by summer heat we share the insiders tips and tricks that brings your gardens back to health again.  You'll be a summer planting pro after this weeks show.

Perennial Flowers are Best Planted in June and Why

Perennial Flowers (those that come back every year) show their colors at the garden center in June. It's also the best month to plant perennials as the soil warms up in Summer.  You will be a perennial pro after this weeks show.  

Best of the Summer Blooming Shrubs that Love, Love, Love Heat

Some plants just love the heat, and this week's bloomers reach the height of their beauty as the season heats up.  These nifty nine prefer being planted during the heat of the summer as well.  You'll be a summer blooming pro after this weeks show.  

Best Memorial Trees that Live Longer than Thier Mountain Gardeners

This Podcast we simply Remember those we have lost and celebrate the birth, wedding and other memorial trees that bring fond memories flooding back from the gardens.  We cover the Best Memorial Trees by month.  Each is long-lived, easy to care for and outshine other trees in the month you wish to remember a long-lost pet, friend, the birth of a child or the memorial tree to the veteran the paid the ultimate price.  You'll be a Memorial Day pro after this weeks show.  

Better Gardens with Raised Beds and Containters

With this podcast, we cover better gardening with raised beds and container gardens.  Some of you should simply give up growing in the crummy soil you home was built on and start over with your own raised garden and fresh new soil  We go deep into the best materials, soil, and techniques that have lasting results.  You'll be a garden pro after this weeks show.  

Designing Better Container Gardens and Hanging Baskets

We go deep into better design ideas that make your container gardens and hanging baskets the best they've looked in years.  Designer, Lisa Lain, explains the best ideas for more beauty this year.  You will be a designer garden pro after this weeks show.  

Growing Tomatoes the Size of Your Head

We go deep into growing tomatoes that really do taste better.  If you grow your own groceries this is a must listen podcast that will up your harvest this year.  You will be a vegetable pro after this weeks show.  

Getting Bigger Blooms from You Flowers

Gardeners are ready to be outdoors with the planting season upon us. In this podcast, we cover the tips, tricks, and techniques that get the most fragrance and blooms from you blooming plants this year.  The advice in this weeks show would even grow a record-setting tomato.  You are going to be a blooming pro after this weeks show.  

 

 

Best Native Hardy Plants of Arizona

We go deep into what makes native so tough and why you want some in your own yard.  More than just cactus, and agave, we cover mountain hardy evergreen pine and fir to the javelina proof perennials.  You'll be a native plant pro after this weeks show.  

Best Flowering Shrubs that Announce Spring

Not all shrubs are created equal when it comes to spring flowers.  This podcast we go deep into the mountain spring shrubs that announce spring, plus a whole lot more.  You'll be a landscape pro after this weeks show. 

Growing Better Mountain Herbs

Herbs gardens are easier to grow than other parts of the country.  Lavender and rosemary, to thyme and basil all, grow better at the higher elevation and the intense mountain sunshine.  Plus, in the dryer climates of northern Arizona, there are few disease issue that humid climate has.  Spring is the ideal time to plant herbs.  You will be an herbal pro after this weeks show.