In this exciting episode of the podcast I talk to you all about what I'm doing this weekend which is appearing at a super duper pooper okay more of the pooper part later event in Orlando Florida called Podcast Expo. I also talked about my lawn and how where I live it is actually spring and that's very exciting and I went out and mowed the yard yesterday and spread two bags of poop on it. My neighbor was a little nervous about me doing this because he didn't know what the poop was going to smell ...
Mar 05, 2020•15 min
In this flashback episode from the old Home and Garden Radio Show, I did on the accent Radio Network you will hear long time listener oh, the Mad Dog from Michigan not tell us how he paid his house off in 5 years. then I had a guest that was sent by a publicist that I really didn't want to interview but it turned out pretty good. His name is Dr. John Steyer A Turfgrass expert from Wisconsin that I can now find nowhere on the internet. His website that he listed is also nonexistent on the interne...
Feb 27, 2020•28 min
In this episode of Ask The Garden Geek we talked about pesticide safety for homeowners and people who like to do their own pest control with the host of The Pest Geek Podcast Franklin Hernandez is the founder of NaturePest and a Certified Pest Control Operator in General Household Pests and Lawn and Ornamental Pest Control in the State of Florida as well as a Certified Horticultural Specialist From Miami Dade College. He is also also a State Certified Best Management Instructor. Franklin and I d...
Feb 24, 2020•19 min
Okay I know we're in the middle of February but before you know it before you can even imagine it, spring will be here. I just happened to know you're going to want to go out and cut something with your chainsaw Or your hedge trimmers. In this episode I talked about fixing to get ready for spring.
Feb 15, 2020•13 min
In this edition of the podcast we talked about pesticides, we talked about the history we talked about development and where pesticides are today. We talked about chemical pesticides as well as Organic pesticides including the Botanicals. We also talked about the importance of understanding toxicity both chemical and organic and natural pesticides have a certain amount of toxicity and just because something is natural does not mean that it cannot kill you. It should be noted that I recorded the ...
Feb 10, 2020•26 min
Many people today want to use natural organic fertilizer on their lawns. In this Edition we talked about the different types of fertilizer. What makes up a fertilizer and what makes a fertilizer organic. We talked about the main elements as well as the minor elements of fertilizer both chemical and organic.
Jan 31, 2020•20 min
In this episode we talked about the fact that is cold even in Florida and we talked about making plans for spring. This will include moving plants around adding new plants and getting ready for the nutritional needs of all of our plants as we move into this most wonderous time of year.
Jan 23, 2020•14 min
For the second year in a row I have received zero catalogs from seed companies which is very distressing because over the years I used to get 30 to 40 seed catalogs every December and January and I ordered from every one of them. In this edition of the podcast I guess we talk about transitions and how some things I guess are just not as popular as they once were.
Jan 17, 2020•12 min
This is show 1769.
Jan 10, 2020•16 min
In this absolutely fabulous edition of the podcast Michael tries again to swear but he can't bring himself to do it. We speak a little bit about the Christmas holiday with grandchildren and kids and hamburgers and rocket launchers made for kids and Michael confesses that his yard is full ff weeds because he did not do what he was supposed to do. Here how he solves the situation and how he used a natural insecticide to get rid of nasty yard insects during the summer.
Jan 03, 2020•12 min
This year I step into the studio totally unprepared simply because the month just creeped up on me. So following tradition I have nothing about gardening to say. Instead I talked about my journey to my new podcast that I am working on.
Dec 20, 2019•27 min
In this holiday kind of addition of the podcast I talked about the care and feeding of your Christmas tree if you get a real Christmas tree. If you follow this wonderful advice chances are reasonably good that when it's all over with you won't have all of these pine needles all over your floor. Then just for fun I opened up my mail and pulled out a book called Nature's Best Hope and kind of went through a little bit and decided to give it away but only to a woman who is of dating age for me. No ...
Dec 12, 2019•20 min
In the Spellbound Edition we talk about transplanting trees this time of year as well as shrubs. I go through in great detail telling you how to successfully transplant small trees and shrubs from one location in your yard or from your yard to someone else in such a way that the plants will Thrive once spring comes.
Dec 07, 2019•12 min
In this episode we talked about Thanksgiving being over with and what do we do between now and the first of the year. This is the time of year when I like to plan my landscape for next year. by the way a Shameless plug if I met one of the best ways to plan your landscape for next year and keep track of it as the years go on is with my brand new gardening Journal. It is available here . https://www.amazon.com/Ask-Garden-Geek-Journal-Make/dp/1687248176/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=michael+crose&qid=157...
Nov 30, 2019•17 min
And today is ever so exciting episode of the podcast I talked about something really cool called microgreens and I tell you what they are how to make them how to grow them and all kinds of fun stuff so listen up you're going to learn something .
Nov 23, 2019•8 min
For this episode of the podcast I chose to give you the entire last broadcast radio show that I have done which airs on November 16th 2019. After 35 years of weekend radio on a national basis heard on radio stations all across the fruited plain the radio show came to an end finally this week. I am not sad about this because the podcast which I enjoy doing more continues and now every week there will be a specially-made show for you on some aspect of gardening. Please indulge me for this show as ...
Nov 15, 2019•40 min
In this ever so exciting episode of the podcast I talked about a couple that I met this week who wanted to prune their trees and they needed advice. What I didn't mention is that the wife as it turns out is actually a well-known pornstar. I had no idea who she was until her husband gave me her business card. I still have no idea who she is and the last thing that she appeared to be to me what's a pornstar. She is actually the one who climbed up into the tree and did most of the pruning. I was ve...
Nov 08, 2019•19 min
On today's exciting podcast Michael talks about nematodes in houseplants as well as Lawns and Gardens. There are several types of nematodes but they are divided into two classifications and Michael talks about both of them. There are endoparasitic nematodes and exto parasitic nematodes. listen to this week's exciting Ask The Garden Geek Podcast to know everything you need to know.
Nov 01, 2019•19 min
It's fall and it's time for fertilizer and while I get millions of questions or it seems like millions of questions about what kind of fertilizer to use I've decided to teach you all about fertilizer so you can figure out what kind of fertilizer you need. We talked about macronutrients and minor nutrients.
Oct 25, 2019•19 min
In this exciting episode of the podcast we answer questions from a lady in California all about trees and apricots and just all kinds of stuff we talked about soil we talked about calcium we talked about bone meal we talked about Organics and what you didn't find out is it she doesn't like Roundup.
Oct 18, 2019•11 min
In today's exciting episode Michael talks about his daughter's desire to grow pumpkins 2 weeks before Halloween and how he had to tell her it wasn't going to happen. But he did make the offer of growing watermelons for next summer in the backyard and went into a little detail about that.
Oct 11, 2019•12 min
In this exciting edition of the show I'm going to not talk about gardening but instead I'm going to talk about podcasting because soon the radio show will disappear and this is what will be left and it's going to be terrific.
Oct 04, 2019•25 min
In this exciting episode Michael talks all about poop. Poop as a natural fertilizer, poop as a potting soil and what kind of poop works best as a fertilizer and what kind of poop works worst.
Sep 27, 2019•12 min
In this exciting episode Michael talks about growing pumpkins in Florida. His daughter Cassie is now living here and has decided that she wanted to grow pumpkins for her three children. What you must understand about Cassie is it if you tell her she can't do something she figures out a way to do it so we explore just how to grow pumpkins and bananas and baking and all kinds of other stuff.
Sep 20, 2019•20 min
In this exciting episode Michael Crose talks about bed bugs and how expensive it is to make them go away. He then talks about a low-cost solution that you can do yourself for under $50. German cockroaches are another big problem that people have in homes and in this episode Michael updates us with all of the new products that he recommends for getting rid of German cockroaches in your home.
Sep 13, 2019•19 min
In this exciting episode of Ask The Garden Geek, the podcast Michael talks about podcasting how's that? He talks about the transition of the radio show into a podcast which will permanently happen in November and explained a few things about how radio works and how podcasting works. Then by golly he got to some gardening questions in particular how to get rid of spider mites on houseplants without spraying pesticides all over the house. Oh and because this is a podcast and not a radio show he ac...
Sep 06, 2019•18 min
In this exciting episode of ask the garden geek I go into great detail about fertilizer. What exactly is fertilizer, what does it contain and what does it do. I talked about major elements and minor nutrients including minerals in both plants and soils and our bodies.
Aug 29, 2019•19 min
In this exciting episode of the podcast we talked about a garden journal you to record and keep track of your landscape. Most people use journals to write down their private thoughts and talk about the people that they love that they don't want the other people that they love to know that they love and you know stuff like that. Not here, we instead keep a record of everything that's going on in our landscape. I have done this for years and I was just looking back at my journal that I started 13 ...
Aug 23, 2019•15 min
in this somewhat awesome podcast I talk about mold that you see in your garden on certain plants and on potted plants on the soil. We talked about the cause, and we talked about the cure. Next we talked about how to get your house plants ready for fall and winter so you don't have to mess with them in the spring.
Aug 16, 2019•19 min
In this exciting episode we talked about starting a new lawn not in the spring but in the fall. We do this by using grass plugs. They can be St Augustine grass plugs, Bermuda grass plugs, Zoysia grass plugs, Centipede grass plugs or even Buffalo Grass plugs. If you follow these simple instructions in the spring you'll have the beginnings of a beautiful new lawn and by June you will have a beautiful new lawn.
Aug 09, 2019•19 min•Ep. 11
