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Bloomers in the Garden

Len Schroeder and Julio Zamora

Bringing the Greater Philadelphia and South Jersey region practical advice in maintaining your gardens, landscapes and yards. Subscribe to the show to keep up with seasonal advice for your garden!

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57:47

Bloomers in the Garden • 2.8.25 • Valentines Day...

Bloomers in the Garden ·

2025/02/07

Bloomers in the Garden • 2.8.25 • Valentines Day Roses • Stink Bugs • Spring Cover Crop Benefits • "A Moose-Loose-In-Da-Hoos!" • House Plant Rant | Rabbits Foot Fern It’s Valentines Day Friday! Are you getting or giving Roses to your Sweetheart? We’ll tell you how to make them last in our 1st segment!!! I don’t know about you but I’m finding stink bugs in the house! It seems they’re waking up after a long winters rest! Our 2nd segment is going to be a real Stinker. Adding Organic Matter to your

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58:05

Bloomers in the Garden • 2.1.25 • Clarkson’s Farm •...

Bloomers in the Garden ·

2025/01/31

Bloomers in the Garden • 2.1.25 • Clarkson’s Farm • PHS Gold Medal Plants • Stone Veneers, Cold Calamity • Pond Problems • & More! During the bone chilling cold I discovered a TV Show on Prime Clarkson’s Farm. If you remember Jeremy Clarkson from the English version of Top Gear, he’s started a 1000 acre farm with NO experience! In our 1st segment we’ll try to get you hooked! Each year the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society introduces new plants in their Gold Medal Plant Program. Hear all about

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58:12

Bloomers in the Garden • 1.25.25 • 2025 Vegetable...

Bloomers in the Garden ·

2025/01/23

Bloomers in the Garden • 1.25.25 • 2025 Vegetable Trends • Caller Maryanne • How are your Houseplants? • Caller Watering • Lived In Gardens • & More!! In our 1st segment we’re going to continue to examine Gardening Trends for 2025. What will be the hot Vegetables to grow inthe Garden? One of our interactive listeners, Maryanne from North Jersey called the Bloomers in the Garden Hotline and brought a little Spring to a bitterly cold January! Hear her call in our 2nd segment. How are your house

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59:15

Bloomers in the Garden • Hotline Calls: Joel's...

Bloomers in the Garden ·

2025/01/16

Bloomers in the Garden • Hotline Calls: Joel's Outdoor Plants Now Inside • Caller Harold Veggie Wash Spray • Professor Steve's Well Wishes • Living Fences Trend • Edimentals & More! 1. Joel is a listener from East Orange, NJ and he called the “Bloomers in the Garden hotline”. He asked about caring for outdoor plants he bought indoors! Hear all about it in our 1st segment!! 2. Over the next few weeks we’re going to be examining “Gardening Trends for 2025”. “Living Fences” is not new but is under

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57:59

Bloomers in the Garden • 1.1125 • MANTS Show •...

Bloomers in the Garden ·

2025/01/10

Bloomers in the Garden • 1.1125 • MANTS Show • Natives • "Not More Roses" • Finally, No New Hydrangeas! 1. This past week we attended MANTS, the Mid-Atlantic Nurseryman’s Trade Show! MANTS has become the place where new plants, products and concepts are launched. In our first segments we’ll share with you what we saw and heard. 2. At MANTS there was a lot of discussions on where we how things were in 2024 and where we’re going in 2025. We’ll share with you what the Industry Professionals had to say

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57:26

Bloomers in the Garden • 1.4.25 • Elections Have...

Bloomers in the Garden ·

2025/01/03

Changes are Coming in 2025! As they say “Elections have conequences”... these will reach right in to your garden! It’s all about the soil! Enriching your soil will increase the quality of your plants and volume of your crop’s yield. When you Grow your own food for your family, you want Organic Fertilizers that work. We made it easy. Insects will come but keeping your garden organic with effective insect control can be tough! We have the best choices for organic insect control! Wondering what you

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57:55

Bloomers in the Garden • 12.28.24 • Winterizing Your...

Bloomers in the Garden ·

2024/12/26

If you have a Water Garden you need to winterize it now! Hear what is essencial to do in our first segment! It’s inevitable the snow will come and bend over your shrubs! We have simple rules to follow to protect your plants. Hear them all in our 2nd segment!! Pest’s are looking at your home as a warm winter vacationing spot! We’ll explain what you can do to prevent or eliminate these snow- birds from invading your home in our 3rd segment. Shortly you will be taking your Christmas tree out of

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58:02

Bloomers in the Garden • 12.21.24• "Here Come's The...

Bloomers in the Garden ·

2024/12/20

Today is the first day of Winter! In our first segment we’re going to discuss the the Winter Solstice! Did you get a Poinsettia for Christmas? In our 2nd segment we’re going to discuss caring for poinsettias in the home!! Depression era children and grand children can remember the stories of getting citrus in thier stockings. We’re going to discuss growing citrus as a house plant in our 3rd segment!! Scale are an insect pest on indoor and outdoor plants.It can be particularly difficult to

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58:20

Bloomers in the Garden • 12.14.24 • Mary's Yews Call...

Bloomers in the Garden ·

2024/12/13

Mary's Yews Call • Pro. Steve's Lawn Fertilizer Call • Keep Your Cut Christmas Tree Fresh • Gifts for Gardeners • The Burrrrrds & The Breeze (Cold Weather Help) Mary called the Bloomers in the Garden Hotline and has questions about her yews! Not me but Yews as in the shrub Taxus Yews! Hear all about it in our first segment! Professor Steve called the Hotline and asked if it is too late to put down lawn fertilizer! Hear our advice in our 2nd segment!! Do you have your Christmas Tree up? If you

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58:23

Bloomers in the Garden • 12.7.24 • The Poinsettia...

Bloomers in the Garden ·

2024/12/06

Bloomers in the Garden • 12.7.24 • The Poinsettia Show • The History • The Flower • The Care On todays show we’re going to tell you a plant story! It contains an Aztec King, an American Spy, and seems to touch every continant! The story continues with a foreign Ambassador and the questionable influence of a Presidential election! It weaves itself right here through Philadelphia where it was in- troduced by Ann Bartram of Bartram Gardens. During the roaring twenties the tale heads west right to

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58:05

Bloomers in the Garden • 11.30.24• The Beauty of...

Bloomers in the Garden ·

2024/11/29

Bloomers in the Garden • 11.30.24• The Beauty of Amaryllis • Thanksgiving Christmas vs Christmas Cactus • Fresh Christmas Greens • Balled & Burlapped Christmas Trees • Bringing a Fig Tree Indoors?!? • and More! Do you love Amaryllis as much as I do? This beautiful Flowering Bulb has a story almost as beautiful as the flower! Learn all about Amaryllis during our 1st segment! Christmas Cactus are a popular Holiday Plant. Hear about the differences from Thanksgiving Cactus vs Christmas Cactus and

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57:45

Bloomers in the Garden • 11.23.24• 'Leave' the Leaves...

Bloomers in the Garden ·

2024/11/22

Bloomers in the Garden • 11.23.24• 'Leave' the Leaves or Let Them Be??? • Rabid Fox Updates • Fall Mulch & NJ Restrictions • Favored Firewood • Thanksgiving Gifts & More!!! With the rain this week the leaves are really falling now! You can’t let them just sit on your lawn hear all about it in our 1st segment! We have an update to our red fox segment last week. Dangerous situations have been reported hear all about it in our second segment. Don’t get too comfortable! Winter cold is coming and your

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58:22

Bloomers in the Garden • 11.16.24 • Pack up the...

Bloomers in the Garden ·

2024/11/14

Bloomers in the Garden • 11.16.24 • Pack up the Hummingbird feeder for Winter? • Stolen Magnolia Seed Heads • Hotline Caller Jimmy's Fig Trees • Len's Got a Fox! • Caller Suzanne's Creepy Crawlies Are you worried that by keeping your Hummingbird feeder up you’re prventing your Hummingbirds from migrating? We’ll fill you in whether to fill up your Hummingbird Feeder or pack it away for the winter in our 1st segment! Do you have a Southern Magnolia? Are the seed heads disappearing? You have a thief

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58:05

Bloomers in the Garden • 11.9.24 • Holly, But No...

Bloomers in the Garden ·

2024/11/08

If your hollies are not producing berries whe have to have “the Talk”! We’ll explain in our 1st segment! It’s time to winterize your fig tree. We’ll explain what you’ll need to to in our second segment. Are you looking to attract more wild birds? We’ll help you out with some great tips in our 3rd segment. We have an update on the glow in the dark firefly petunias hear all about it in our 4th segment. So What’s in a name? Ever wonder where plants get thier name! Find out where the Annabelle

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58:45

Bloomers in the Garden • 11.2.24 • Hotline Call:...

Bloomers in the Garden ·

2024/11/01

1. In our 1st segment we received a call to the Bloomers in the garden hotline from Doug from Bristol PA. Doug’s wife purchased a rose that she wants to plant in a pot. We’ll explain in our 1st segment! 2. Before you put away that mower there are a few things to take care of. We’ll tell you what they are in our second segment. 3. We received a text to the Bloomers in the Garden Hotline asking about over wintering Cannas! It is a perplexing problem which we will ex- plain in our 3rd segment. 4. We

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56:57

Bloomers in the Garden • 10.26.24 • Storing Your...

Bloomers in the Garden ·

2024/10/25

Bloomers in the Garden • 10.26.24 • Storing Your Summer Bulbs In Winter • Daffodils & Narcissus • Tulip Time! • What’s a Pip?!? • & More! The Brightest Bulb may actually be in the Ground!! Today's show is all about Flowering Bulbs!! In our 1st segment we'll be explaining the differences between Summer Flowering and Spring Flowering bulbs in our 1st segment. Once you know which are Summer Flowering bulbs you're going to have to dig them up and store over the winter! We'll tell you how during our

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58:14

Bloomers in the Garden • 10.19.24 • Fall Planting |...

Bloomers in the Garden ·

2024/10/18

Bloomers in the Garden • 10.19.24 • Fall Planting | Onions & Garlic • Winterizing Your Roses • The Benefits of Planting Cover Crops • Moving Trees & Shrubs in Fall • Wild Birds & Suet & More It is time to plant Onions and Garlic for the most flavorful crop you'll harvest in spring!! We'll tell you how during our 1st segment! Enjoy your roses final blossoms for the year. Listen what to do when those final petals fall in our 2nd segment! Planting A Garden cover crop improves you garden soil in

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58:12

Bloomers in the Garden • 10.12.24 • Controlling Weeds...

Bloomers in the Garden ·

2024/10/11

Bloomers in the Garden • 10.12.24 • Controlling Weeds in Mulch (Hotline Text) • Yellow Leaves & Mulch Problems • With a Name Like Pansy, They've Gotta Be Tough! • Creepy Crawlers | Spiders and Crickets • Gaultheria Wintergreen & More! A listener texted the Bloomers in the Garden Hotline and asked about controlling weeds growing in their mulch!! Hear how to clean up your landscape beds for the winter! Sometimes you can over mulch! Do you have plants that look yellowish even though you put down

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58:10

Bloomers in the Garden • 10.5.24 • Pumpkintown...

Bloomers in the Garden ·

2024/10/04

Bloomers in the Garden • 10.5.24 • Pumpkintown USA•Pumpkins & Squirrels•Pruning Hydrangeas Like A Pro!•Fall Pond Prep•Bringing Your Houseplants & Tropicals Back Indoors It's Pumpkin Season and during our first segment we're going to give you a quick primer on Pumpkins before you head out to the Pumpkin patch!! We received a question how to keep squirrels from eating the pumpkins on your front porch! Hear how during our 2nd segment! It seems like every couple weeks we're talking about how

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57:54

Bloomers in the Garden • 9.28.24 • Scorch Viburnum...

Bloomers in the Garden ·

2024/09/27

Bloomers in the Garden • 9.28.24 • Scorch Viburnum Hotline Text • Crabgrass Swan Song • Trees Fall Color Transitioning • Nature's Animal Pests • Listener Harold New DIY Carnivorous Plant Feeding Hack We received a text from a listener who has leaf scorch on their newly planted viburnums. Hear what they can do in our first segment. Is your Lawn turning in to a patchwork of spots oor blotches of red, purple or brown. We'll tell you what is happening during our 2nd segment! Your lawn is not

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