Mid-American Gardener: Best tomato practices, repelling small wildlife, mulch, and more
You have to repel the wildlife just to GET the tomatoes these days.
Mid-American Gardener: Planting pineapples, fire blight, crabapple suckers, and more
Can you really grow pineapple in Zone 5b?
Mid-American Gardener: Dandelions, ornamental grasses, bagworms, and more
What's a bagworm, anyway?
Mid-American Gardener: Transplanting rhubarb, avoiding vine borers, attracting pollinators, and more
Can you attract bees with white clover?
Mid-American Gardener: Pinching back mums, ground-dwelling bees, mothballs in the garden
What is mushroom compost and why use it?
Mid-American Gardener: Tomatoes, barbecue rosemary, butterfly bushes
Can eggshells really help grow better tomatoes?
Mid-American Gardener: Bleeding hearts, prayer plants, snow mold
What'sthat white web-like stuff on the grass?
Mid-American Gardener: Managing tall fescue grasses, burning ornamental grasses, Japanese maples
The color of Japanese maples is as beautiful in the spring as in the fall.
Mid-American Gardener: Japanese beetles, soil amendment, and much more
Little-known fact: Pumice stones can be used to amend clay-heavy soils.
Mid-American Gardener: Pruning crabapple trees, eliminating voles, organic potting materials
You can use a Mason jar filled with bait to help eliminate voles from your garden.
Air Dates and Times
| Channel | Day | Time |
|---|---|---|
| WILL-TV, Urbana | Thursday | 7 pm (live) |
| Saturday | 11 am (repeat) | |
| WTVP-TV, Peoria | Saturday | 11:30 am |
| WEIU-TV, Charleston | Sunday | 1:30 pm |
| WSEC-TV, Springfield | Saturday | 11 am |
| WQEC-TV, Quincy | Saturday | 11 am |
| WMEC-TV, Macomb | Saturday | 11 am |
| Lakeshore PBS, Chicago/Northwest Indiana | Friday | 1 pm |
Featured Entry
Propagation, Hail Recovery & Summer Garden Tips
In this episode of Mid-American Gardener, Tinisha is joined by horticulturists Karen Ruckle and Ella Maxwell for hands-on advice on how to keep your garden thriving all summer!
