WJOY's "In The Garden"

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By: WJOY Burlington, VT

Charlie Nardozzi, nationally recognized garden writer, speaker, radio, and television personality, joins WJOY morning show host Ginny McGehee every Thursday morning to talk everything gardening!

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In the Garden (7-9-2026)
#2618
Last Thursday at 2:47 PM

This week on the WJOY In the Garden Show, Charlie Nardozzi tackles Hydrangeas that won't bloom, how to cut back your Hollyhocks, pruning raspberries, Verbascum flowers and more!


In the Garden (7-2-2026)
#2617
07/02/2026

This week on the WJOY In the Garden show, get Charlie's answers on controlling slugs on Basil, sowing carrots, pruning Spirea, where to place those Japanese Beetle traps, treating tomatoes for blossom end rot and more!


In the Garden (6-18-2026)
#2616
06/18/2026

On this week's WJOY In the Garden podcast, hear Charlie's answers to your questions about strawbale gardening, pinching back perennials, digging up and resetting tulip bulbs, protecting tomatoes from blight, and fighting off those pesky caterpillars chewing your hollyhock leaves.


In the Garden (6-11-2026)
#2615
06/11/2026

This week on the WJOY In the Garden show, listen as Charlie and Ginny answer your questions on the use of cardboard in the garden, how to fix beans that aren't germinating, controlling slugs, cutting back Phlox, pinching annuals, and the proper care of Peonies.


In The Garden (6-4-2026)
#2614
06/04/2026

On this week's WJOY In the Garden show, Charlie Nardozzi is back!  And he's answering your questions about growing Balloon Plants, thinning grapes and plums, propagating Rhododendrons, controlling mosquitos and repotting Philodendron house plants. 


In the Garden (5-28-2026)
#2613
05/28/2026

This week on the WJOY In the Garden show, Leonard Perry describes how to create critter baffles, growing healthy Maple Trees, echinacea, and how to test your soil.


In the Garden (5-21-2026)
#2612
05/21/2026

This week on the WJOY In the Garden show get your questions answered on Petunia varieties.  It's the bees knees!  New pest protections for both garden and gardener, the latest tomato varietals, and everything you wanted to know about compost but were afraid to ask on the radio!


In the Garden (5/14/2026)
#2611
05/14/2026

On this week's episode, Ginny & Charlie discuss transplanting cucumbers, planting strawberries, growing hollyhocks, how to care for your amaryllis, rose pruning, and the right kind of shrubs to plant in wet areas.


In the Garden (5/7/2026)
#2610
05/07/2026

This week on the WJOY In the Garden podcast, hear Charlie answer your questions on eating Hosta and daylilies, moving daffodil bulbs, why tulips don't bloom, repairing dog urine spots in the lawn, container gardening, and dividing perennials.


In the Garden (4-30-2026)
#2609
04/30/2026

This week on the In the Garden podcast Eric and Charlie discuss hardening off seedlings for replanting, growing asparagus, spring weeding, groundcover under trees, and nitrogen in compost.


In The Garden (4-23-2026)
#2608
04/23/2026

This week on the AM 1230 WJOY In the Garden show, Charlie & Ginny take your calls about overseeding lawns, planting peas and lettuce, creating successful railing planters, controlling crabgrass, and fertilizing geraniums. 


In the Garden (4-16-2026)
#2607
04/16/2026

This week on In the Garden, Charlie talks about protecting bulbs from critters, fencing against deer, growing corydalis, warding off Boxelder Beetles, and the right kind of tomatoes for paste.


In the Garden (4-9-2026)
#2606
04/09/2026

On this week's In the Garden Replay, hear Charlie answer your questions on raised beds, inoculants for bean seeds, uncovering perennial flowers and roses, and planting peas.


In the Garden (4-2/2026)
#2605
04/02/2026

This week on the WJOY In the Garden show, hear about growing Witch Hazel, protecting bulbs from critters, pruning raspberries, making a Hugel Mound Garden, and the care of Easter lilies.


In the Garden (3-26-2026)
#2604
03/26/2026

On this week's In the Garden show, hear Charlie's answers to your questions on fertilizing and pruning blueberries, soil testing, pruning Hydrangea and Rose of Sharon, flowering annual vines, and bird protection.


In the Garden (3-19-2026)
#2603
03/19/2026

This week on the WJOY In the Garden show, Charlie & Ginny answer your questions on using seed tape on lawns, pruning flowering shrubs like Hydrangeas, pruning big trees, growing Clivia houseplants and more!


In the Garden (3-12-2026)
#2602
03/12/2026

This week on the AM 1230 WJOY In the Garden show, Charlie answers your questions on pruning and propagating houseplants, pruning trees, Spring ephemerals, crop rotations in the vegetable garden, and removing burlap from trees.


In The Garden (3-5-2026)
#2601
03/05/2026

On this week's Premiere Episode of the 2026 Gardening Season, Charlie answers your questions on growing grass in shady areas, growing Brussels Sprouts, caring for houseplants, and the continuous vegetable garden book.


In the Garden (11-20-2025)
#2533
11/20/2025

This week on the Season Finale of WJOY's In the Garden show, Leonard Perry answers your questions on the care and feeding of holiday plants including the many Poinsettia varietals, Christmas Cactus, houseplants and pests, and fall pruning tips.


In the Garden (11-13-2025)
#2532
11/13/2025

This week in the WJOY In the Garden podcast, hear Charlie answer your questions about protecting Rhododendrons, late-fall bulb planting, care for living Christmas trees, protecting Brussels Sprouts and the proper care of your Amaryllis plant.


In the Garden (11-06-2025)
#2531
11/06/2025

On this week's thrilling episode of In the Garden, Charlie answers your questions on watering Christmas Cactus, protecting roses, overwintering rosemary, pruning lilacs, and protecting veggies.


In the Garden (10-30-2025)
#2530
10/30/2025

This week on WJOY's In the Garden, Charlie answers your calls on watering houseplants, overwintering hibiscus indoors, growing garlic in elevated beds, carting for your Christmas cactus, and the true story behind the Jack O'Lantern!


In the Garden (10-23-2025)
#2529
10/23/2025

This week on the WJOY In the Garden show, Charlie takes your questions about planting bulbs, leaving the leaves, layering bulbs in pots, canning pumpkins and more!


In the Garden (10-16-2025)
#2528
10/16/2025

This week on the show, Charlie and Ginny chat with listeners about winterizing roses, digging up gladiolas, shielding geraniums from the cold, and pruning maple trees—plus, an in-studio guest asks about cutting back hydrangeas! 


In the Garden (10-9-2025)
#2527
10/09/2025

On this week's jam-packed episode of WJOY's In the Garden, Charlie answers your questions on everything from overwintering mums and geraniums, to getting that Christmas Cactus to bloom on time, to harvesting Butternut Squash, to why growing Horse Radishes is fun and useful! 


In The Garden (10-2-2025)
#2526
10/02/2025

On this week's In the Garden Replay, learn about pruning Forsythia, dividing peonies, trimming sage, harvesting butternut squash, over wintering pepper plants and more!


In The Garden (9-25-2025)
#2525
09/25/2025

This week on the In The Garden podcast, Charlie answers your questions on picking and saving tomatoes, transplanting Shasta daisies, rose hips, fighting caterpillars and more!


In the Garden (9-18-2025)
#2524
09/18/2025

This week on the WJOY In the Garden podcast, listen and Ginny & Charlie talk about planting blueberries, cover crops, Chrysanthemums, and caring for cemetery plantings. 


In the Garden (9-11-2025)
#2523
09/11/2025

This week on WJOY's In the Garden show, Leonard Perry was in for Charlie answering your question on garden tools for pruning, birds in the garden, fall planting, bulbs, and house plant replanting and care in the fall.


In the Garden (9-4-2025)
#2522
09/04/2025

On this week's In the Garden show, Charlie tackled your questions about the best flowers for making bird seed, the best berries for birds, removing oregano and so much more!


In the Garden (8-28-2025)
#2521
08/28/2025

This week on our In the Garden podcast, Charlie answers your questions about black leaves on lilacs, when to bring in those houseplants, sowing fall veggies, self-sowing sunflowers, and hardy hibiscus!


In the Garden (8-21-2025)
#2520
08/21/2025

On this week's In the Garden podcast, Charlie tackles dividing perennials, picking cucumbers, overwintering Hibiscus, resetting tulips, dying lilacs, and Champlain Valley Fair judging with Charlie!


In the Garden (8-14-2025)
#2519
08/15/2025

This week on the WJOY In the Garden show, Charlie & Ginny answer your question on pruning zucchini, redoing a lawn, pepper sunburn, overwintering canna lily, fertilizing hanging baskets, and even this year's Champlain Valley Fair.


In the Garden (8-10-2025)
#2518
08/07/2025

This week on the In the Garden replay, Charlie & Ginny tackle your questions about Red Leaf Lily Beetles, wasps in pots, Cucumber Beetles, caring for Norfolk Island Pines, when to water and more!


In the Garden (8-3-2025)
#2517
07/31/2025

On this week's In the Garden Replay, Charlie & Ginny take your questions on renovating strawberry beds, which annuals you should be planting now, deadheading daylilies, peppers that aren't producing, and how to transplant peonies.


In the Garden (7-24-2025)
#2516
07/25/2025

On this week's WJOY In the Garden podcast, Charlie and Ginny tackle curling tomato leaves, squash growing poorly, jumping worms, Hydrangea not blooming, self-sowing lettuce, and deer repellents.


In The Garden (7-17-2025)
#2515
07/17/2025

This week on the WJOY In the Garden replay, Ginny & Charlie answer your questions on redoing container gardens, squashing Squash bugs, how to handle beetles eating peppers, controlling Bishop's weed, and picking basil.


In the Garden (7/10/2025)
#2514
07/10/2025

On this week's WJOY In the Garden show, Ginny & Charlie discuss those tomatoes not ripening, renovating strawberry beds, pollinating squash, sawflies, what's eating your roses, and things to do with lettuce.


WJOY's In the Garden (7/3/2025)
#2513
07/03/2025

This week on WJOY's In the Garden replay, Charlie answers your questions on tomato pests, slugs on Basil, tomatoes not setting fruits, controlling Japanese Beetles, and pruning lavender and more!


In The Garden (6/26/2025)
#2512
06/26/2025

On this episode, Ginny & Charlie discuss roses, slugs on peppers, edible daylilies, and problems with hibiscus plants.