Garden Success with Stephen Brueggerhoff
Public media for Texas A&M University and the Brazos Valley
Garden Success โ 9/18/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses Obedient Plant, St Augustine grass encroaching on a Bermuda lawn, Blue Mistflower, upcoming local events, gardening tips for the end of September, Asparagus, and Broccoli.
Garden Success โ 9/11/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses sweet potatoes, turk's cap, a volunteer mulberry tree, butterflies, upcoming local events, Go-N-Grow gardens & College Station water rebates, mealy bugs, washing black mold off of plants, winterizing lawns and container plants, and sourcing valencia peanuts.
Garden Success โ 9/4/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses a listener's email about a tree having leaves with necrosis & a possible pathogen, transplanting container trees, Moringa tree suggested planting method & leaf harvest time, Indian Hawthorn, upcoming local events, pollinator-friendly plants, and native plants for landscaping.
Garden Success โ 8/28/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses figs, how fall is like a second spring, soil testing, raised beds, plants that can be planted in a fall garden, pecans, and upcoming local events.
Garden Success โ 8/21/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses Asiatic Jasmine, mushrooms growing alongside a tree, identifying a listener's variety of Southern Magnolia, an upcoming honeybee webinar, pruning roses, horticultural oils, an oak tree with decay, and an update on the harvest from his home garden including bell peppers and sweet potatoes.
Garden Success โ 8/14/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses jujube trees, asian jasmine, a post oak tree shedding bark, lightning damage to trees, cinch bugs, bee hotels, chinese pistache, water conservation, upcoming local events, changes to local farmers' markets.
Garden Success โ 8/7/2025: A Conversation with Dr. Juliana Rangel, Associate Professor of Apiculture in the Department of Entomology at Texas A&M
Stephen Brueggerhoff and Dr. Juliana Rangel, Associate Professor of Apiculture in the Department of Entomology at Texas A&M University discuss Dr. Rangel's history and duties with Texas A&M Entomology, education and research projects including how bees select between pollens, regulations regarding bees, foraging behavior, use of pollen by other pollinators, tips for making home landscapes attractive and beneficial for pollinators, concerns of commercial beekeepers, honeybee nutrition, beekeeping schools and clubs, and the new Texas A&M Agrilife Extension Apiculture Specialist.
Garden Success โ 7/31/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses salvia plants, canna lilies, bougainvillea, soil testing for PH, killing grass under trees without harming the trees, asparagus, pruning roses, cedar elms, and upcoming local events.
Garden Success โ 7/24/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses salvia plants, bell peppers grown in containers, citrus, a lawn with both St. Augustine and Bermuda grasses competing, upcoming local events, a tree in decline, mulberry trees, live oaks, and propagating plant cuttings.
Garden Success โ 7/17/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses his recent fig event, transplanting crape myrtles & figs, jalapeno and other peppers, upcoming local events, cantaloupe, sourcing worms, and planting ornamentals around a tree.
Garden Success โ 7/10/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses St Augustine, Bermuda, and Zoysia grasses, Figs, Japanese Maples, Turks Cap, caring for Crape Myrtles, general tips for July gardening, and a Sycamore sapling with brown leaves.
Garden Success โ 7/3/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses the morning rains, a vinca plant with fungal pathogens, cultivating cantaloupes and musk melons, tomatoes, sago palms, barrier plants, okra plants getting chewed on by animals, and upcoming local events.
Garden Success โ 6/26/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses recent rains in the Brazos Valley, splitting fruit as a result of the rains, Green Zebra tomatoes, Blue Belles, Caladiums, Zinnia flowers, upcoming local events, and tips to prepare for fall tomatoes.
Garden Success โ 6/19/2025: Q&A With Skip Richter
Guest host Skip Richter discusses reasons to leave grass clippings on the lawn after mowing, turf pests and diseases, filling in bare spots in turf, upcoming local events, fertilizing shrubs, sooty mold on crape myrtle, cycle & soak watering method, hypoxylon canker in white oak trees, southern peas, and warm season greens and okra.
Garden Success โ 6/12/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses the rains currently impacting the area, cucumbers & melons, indeterminate tomatoes, figs, peaches, jujube trees, garlic chives, and crape myrtle bark scale
Garden Success โ 6/5/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses his recent travel to Los Angeles & plants he saw while out there, tomatoes, upcoming local events, pruning, bee removal, volunteer plum trees, and fungal pathogens.
Garden Success โ 5/15/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff & Hannah Ayala
Stephen Brueggerhoff & Hannah Ayala, Head Diagnostician at the Texas Plant Disease Diagnostic Lab discuss plant samples accepted by the lab, common diseases the lab sees on a regular basis, how to submit samples, a fungal infection on a caller's grapevine, upcoming local events, and why to not move citrus, but rather buy locally.
Garden Success โ 5/8/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses recent rains in the Brazos Valley, yucca, figs, black wooly caterpillars, oleander, cold-hardy citrus, raspberries, and upcoming local events.
Garden Success โ 5/1/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses blackberries, peaches, oak trees, how often to replace soil in container plants, magnolia, fungicides, curly dock, upcoming local events, crape myrtle bark scale, and roses.
Garden Success โ 4/24/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses water needs for home fruit trees, honeysuckle vine, oak tree flowering, upcoming local events, container bougainvillea plants, how often to replace potting soil, and edible flowers.
Garden Success โ 4/17/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses salvias, vertical gardening, vining plant identification, wisteria, mulch suggestion for a caller, upcoming local events, and timing oak tree trimming to minimize oak wilt disease.
Garden Success โ 4/10/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses bluebonnets, other contenders for the Texas state flower, fruit tree pests including plum curculio, effectiveness of organza bags on growing fruit, tomato fertilization, spring lawn fertilization schedule, upcoming local events, and texas sage.
Garden Success โ 4/3/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses garden herbs, wildflower viewing, upcoming local events, firecracker plant, the Leach Teaching Gardens on Texas A&M's campus, rusty black haw, and yaupon holly.
Garden Success โ 3/27/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses spring gardening tips, Texas' spring wildflowers, upcoming local events, and bamboo in home landscaping.
Garden Success โ 3/20/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff & Dr. Kevin Ong
Stephen Brueggerhoff & Dr. Kevin Ong discuss common plant diseases, protecting plants from high winds, a caller's meyer lemon that has stopped producing fruit, fast growing trees & bushes for privacy, upcoming local events, and info about the Texas Plant Diagnostic Lab.
Garden Success โ 3/13/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses transplanting trees and other plants, re-potting plants, fruit tree planting and fertilization, upcoming local events, identifying a wax myrtle, fast growing trees, next week's special guest, and fall aster.
Garden Success โ 3/6/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses tomatoes in-depth, upcoming local events, his favorite fig varieties, and when to prune peach trees.
Garden Success โ 2/27/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses Texas A&M campus landscaping, native grasses, pre-emergent treatments for the lawn, transplanting vegetables into a bed that had been treated with a pre-emergent herbicide, upcoming local events, raised beds, soil testing, and organic herbicide.
Garden Success โ 2/20/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses palm tree biology and pruning advice, a follow-up on insect identification, upcoming local events, weed control in St. Augustine and Bermudagrass lawns, and reasons to go outside and enjoy nature.
Garden Success โ 2/13/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses the return of winter temperatures to the Brazos Valley, identifying pests on a listener's indoor pepper plants as well as providing treatment solutions, info on a presentation on heirloom bulbs, pruning climbing roses and crape myrtles, types of garden mulch materials and colorants, upcoming local events, and plum trees.
Garden Success โ 2/6/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses home canning of citrus, upcoming local events, identifying a plant with heart-shaped leaves, where to have mulch material tested, care & watering of potted bougainvillea, and more.
Garden Success โ 1/30/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses how he protected his plants from the recent freeze, anna apples, success in keeping a meyer lemon alive through the freeze, upcoming local events, cosmos, cauliflower, when to plant potatoes, and more.
Garden Success โ 1/23/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses identifying causes of plant tissue damage, when to start transplanting greenhouse plants, upcoming local events, trapping armadillos and other control methods, dwarf yaupon, and more.
Garden Success โ 1/16/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses preparing for next week's freeze, banana plants, service berry, botanical gardens, upcoming local events, growing citrus in the Brazos Valley, and when to prune crape myrtles.
Garden Success โ 1/9/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses freeze preparation for plants, turk's cap, winter pruning advice, landscape edging, helping a banana survive a freeze, canna lilies, upcoming local events, when to prune oak trees, thornless blackberries, and planting bulb onions.
Garden Success โ 1/2/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses freeze preparation for plants, what to do with a poinsettia after the holiday season, preparing for a spring garden, upcoming local events, how to prepare a sample for the Plant Disease Diagnostic Lab, where to drop that sample off, when to plant a mix of wildflower seeds, and more.
Garden Success โ 12/26/2024: A Conversation with Dr. Tim Hartmann
Stephen Brueggerhoff is joined by Dr. Tim Hartmann, Assistant Professor & Extension Specialist with Texas A&M Agrilife. They discuss Tim's background, his specialty in the field of fruit, and Tim's current active research.
Garden Success โ 12/19/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses how to protect plants from squirrels and freezing temperatures, planning for spring tomatoes, germinating seeds, and more.
Garden Success โ 12/12/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff
Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses winterizing lawns, bradford pears, poinsettias, christmas cactus, chinese pistache, planting fruit trees, upcoming local events, and more.
Garden Success โ 12/5/2024: A Conversation with Dr. Kevin Ong
Stephen Brueggerhoff is joined by Dr. Kevin Ong, Director of The Texas Plant Disease Diagnostic Laboratory & Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology about his background, The Texas Plant Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, plant breeding programs at Texas A&M with a spotlight on potatoes, how to grow disease-free plants, turf fungus & other pathogens & tips to prevent them, emerald ash borer, fungal disease in corn, citrus quarantine zones, and more.