Local Host Stephen Brueggerhoff • Thursdays, noon – 1 p.m.
Garden Success with Stephen Brueggerhoff is a call-in gardening show airing each Thursday from noon to 1:00pm on KAMU-FM. Stephen, an extension specialist in horticulture at Texas A&M Agrilife, serves as your garden consultant, answering questions to help you grow a bountiful garden and beautiful landscape in the Brazos Valley. Stephen will give you time-saving tips, guide you to the best plants selections and provide proven pest management strategies including both conventional and organic techniques.
Call in your lawn and garden questions at 979-845-5689, or e-mail them during the show to: gardensuccess@tamu.edu. Listen to past episodes below.
Episodes
Garden Success – 4/24/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff April 24, 2025 Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses water needs for fruit trees, honeysuckle vine, oak tree flowering, upcoming local events, container bougainvillea plants, how often to replace potting soil, and edible flowers.
Garden Success – 4/17/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff April 17, 2025 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 – 4/10/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff April 10, 2025 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 – 4/3/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff April 3, 2025 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 – 3/27/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff March 27, 2025 Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses spring gardening tips, Texas' spring wildflowers, upcoming local events, and bamboo in home landscaping.
Garden Success – 3/20/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff & Dr. Kevin Ong March 20, 2025 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 – 3/13/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff March 13, 2025 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 – 3/6/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff March 6, 2025 Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses tomatoes in-depth, upcoming local events, his favorite fig varieties, and when to prune peach trees.
Garden Success – 2/27/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff February 27, 2025 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 – 2/20/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff February 20, 2025 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 – 2/13/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff February 13, 2025 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 – 2/6/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff February 6, 2025 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 – 1/30/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff January 30, 2025 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 – 1/23/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff January 23, 2025 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 – 1/16/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff January 16, 2025 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 – 1/9/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff January 9, 2025 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 – 1/2/2025: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff January 2, 2025 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 – 12/26/2024: A Conversation with Dr. Tim Hartmann December 26, 2024 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 – 12/19/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff December 19, 2024 Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses how to protect plants from squirrels and freezing temperatures, planning for spring tomatoes, germinating seeds, and more.
Garden Success – 12/12/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff December 12, 2024 Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses winterizing lawns, bradford pears, poinsettias, christmas cactus, chinese pistache, planting fruit trees, upcoming local events, and more.
Garden Success – 12/5/2024: A Conversation with Dr. Kevin Ong December 5, 2024 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.
Garden Success – 11/28/2024: A Conversation with Nick McKenna November 28, 2024 Stephen Brueggerhoff is joined by Nick McKenna, Assistant Athletic Director for Sports Field at Texas A&M Athletics, and they discuss Nick's background, his time working at Virginia Tech, the scope of his responsibilities at Texas A&M, differences between a residential lawn and his sport fields, involvement with state and national organizations, standards and specifications of sports fields, maintenance throughout seasons, challenges with local water quality, experiments with automation, the types of grass used by A&M Athletics, and more.
Garden Success – 11/21/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff November 21, 2024 Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses night blooming cactus care tips, mulberry tree varieties for Brazos county, propagating peggy martin roses, nut sedge removal, covering materials for garden pathways, a listener's pictures of their successful datil pepper plants, and more.
Garden Success – 11/14/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff November 14, 2024 Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses today's amazing weather, how to prune Aprium & Nectaplum, Crimson Bonfire, Fish Fertilizer, growing Broccoli & Cauliflower from seed, succulent plant suggestions, Asparagus, Crape Myrtles, transplanting a Live Oak tree, and more.
Garden Success – 11/7/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff November 7, 2024 Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses the return of rain to the Brazos Valley, ground cover plants in Aggie Park, Honey Crisp apples, best practices for planting fruit trees, woodpecker damage, and more.
Garden Success – 10/31/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff October 31, 2024 Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses powdery mildew on tree leaves, transplanting cedar saplings, a live oak tree with bare limbs, upcoming local events, mealy bugs on hibiscus, burford hollies, and more.
Garden Success – 10/24/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff October 24, 2024 Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses a gardenia with yellowing leaves, when to establish pampas grass, banana tree fruiting & other care tips, upcoming local events, meyer lemon and orange frost satsuma with insect leaf damage and yellowing leaves, recommended vining plants for a shaded arbor, and more.
Garden Success – 10/17/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff October 17, 2024 Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses regulations surrounding importing seeds from overseas, broccoli plants, citrus quarantine restrictions, treating pests on iris, upcoming local events, weed control and removing unwanted trees in lawns, and more.
Garden Success – 10/10/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff October 10, 2024 Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses gardenia leaves looking unwell, citrus leaf miners, spotting on peach leaves, figs, upcoming local events, cucumbers, spider mites, nut sedge, pruning vincas, when to prune roses, and more.
Garden Success – 10/3/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff October 3, 2024 Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses red wasps, sap seeping out of a tree, upcoming local events, cat-safe houseplant suggestions, why painting tree wounds can be harmful, pecan season, and more.
Garden Success – 9/19/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff September 19, 2024 Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses Roundup-resistant weeds, establishing a fall garden, butterflies, deer repellant, crabgrass, turfgrass, upcoming local events, redbud trees, roses with fungal pathogens, and more.
Garden Success – 9/12/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff September 12, 2024 Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses the Waller salt mine, shrub identification, earth kind landscaping, a call about tomatoes with fungal pathogens, scarlet pea, a call about when to trim a live oak tree, broadleaf weed control, a rose with browning leaves, upcoming local events, a pest insect on a pumpkin plant, and more.
Garden Success – 9/5/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff September 5, 2024 Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses Frogfruit, a call about stopping a tallow stump from resprouting, crape myrtle bark scale, identifying an oak tree with pictures of leaves and acorns, info on the Brazos Valley Bee School, upcoming local events, rain & fungal pathogens, pruning roses, and more.
Garden Success – 8/29/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff August 29, 2024 Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses raising vegetable plants from seed in-depth, upcoming local events, a listener question about oak tree viability, and more.
Garden Success – 8/22/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff August 22, 2024 Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses listener questions about Miracle Gro application amounts, where to locate seed-free compost for their lawn, Cobalt St. Augustine turf, chinch bugs, gray leaf spot, the best times to water turf, upcoming local events, lichen, squash bugs, and more.
Garden Success – 8/15/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff August 15, 2024 Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses galls on trees, oak wilt, pruning oak trees, cultivating palm trees, pruning roses, shasta daisies, upcoming local events, identifying an oak tree, crape myrtle bark scale, and more.
Garden Success – 8/8/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff August 8, 2024 Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses working in his garden, preparing soil for planting, no-till & till soil prep methods, crop rotation, upcoming local events, pole beans, and more.
Garden Success – 8/1/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff August 1, 2024 Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses the recent Agrilife Extension conference, Jujube trees, fall garden plants, upcoming local events & programs, local parks, diagnosing a sample of yellowing turf, planting Cobalt St. Augustine plugs in an existing lawn, Yaupon trees possibly putting oak and other trees at risk in a yard, treating winter squash & pumpkins with powdery mildew on leaves, environmental stressors on trees, and more.
Garden Success – 7/25/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff July 25, 2024 Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses melons, a yellowing lawn, figs, upcoming events, lawn overwatering, jujube trees, replacing oak trees that have died, seed starting heat mats, and more.
Garden Success – 7/18/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff July 18, 2024 Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses different types of grasses, the Texas state grass, Texas Superstar plants, upcoming local events, listener questions about removing grass around an oak tree without harming the tree, when to pick a ripe watermelon, and more.
Garden Success – 7/11/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff July 11, 2024 Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses Yaupon and Nellie R Stevens hollies, heat mats for starting plants, grass identification, starting tomatoes, smaller okra varieties for a raised bed, controlling nematodes, lawn mowing tips, upcoming local events, and more.
Garden Success – 7/4/2024: Q&A With Stephen Brueggerhoff July 4, 2024 Stephen Brueggerhoff discusses suggested plants around a shaded fountain, tips for gardening in summer heat & efficient watering, upcoming local events, red white & blue plants for July 4th, struggling bell pepper, cucumbers, fall tomatoes, online resources, basil, eggplant, seed saving, and more.
Garden Success – 6/27/2024: Q&A With Skip Richter & Stephen Brueggerhoff June 27, 2024 Skip Richter and co-host Stephen Brueggerhoff discuss holes in canna leaves, gardening in galvanized stock tank, eggplant pest problems, Skip's new bird bath, bees & wasps, upcoming local events, grape identification, lawn weed strategies, BV Water Smart, and Skip's departure from Garden Success.
Garden Success – 6/20/2024: Q&A With Skip Richter & Stephen Brueggerhoff June 20, 2024 Skip Richter and guest Stephen Brueggerhoff discuss oak tree health, hornbeam trees splitting, sap leaking from a tree's trunk, Skip & Stephen's favorite trees, upcoming local events, beneficial nematodes, Yaupon trees, tomatoes, and more.
Garden Success – 6/13/2024: Q&A With Skip Richter & Stephen Brueggerhoff June 13, 2024 Skip Richter and guest Stephen Brueggerhoff discuss greenhouse tomatoes, frogfruit, cold damage to trees, how to remove a dying red cedar tree, trimming sago palms, how to treat for fire ants in a vegetable garden, and upcoming local events.
Garden Success – 6/6/2024: Q&A With Skip Richter & Stephen Brueggerhoff June 6, 2024 Skip Richter and guest Stephen Brueggerhoff discuss figs, listener questions about roses, snail control, cucumbers, potato storage, and more.
Garden Success – 5/30/2024: Q&A With Skip Richter May 30, 2024 Skip Richter discusses recent rains and the mosquitos they brought, benefits of mulching for the summer, webworms, listener questions about plant propagation, plant identification, why a fig is not producing fruit, and more.
Garden Success – 5/23/2024: Q&A With Skip Richter May 23, 2024 Skip Richter discusses listener questions about a young montezuma cypress, found red milkweed, suggested flowering plants for summertime, pampas grass mowing advice, and more.
Garden Success – 5/16/2024: Q&A With Skip Richter May 16, 2024 Skip Richter discusses summer squash planting, crape myrtle varieties, powdery mildew protection, mulching for weed control, shade tolerant grasses, trees leaking sap attracting butterflies and wasps, protecting peach fruit from squirrels, a meyer lemon with iron deficiency, and more.
Garden Success – 5/9/2024: Q&A With Skip Richter May 9, 2024 Skip Richter discusses listener questions about how to find and plant palmetto grass, a beekeeper asking about the timing of our nectar flow, how to landscape for bees, how to plant vitex, redbud drought damage, and more.
Garden Success – 5/2/2024: Dr. Juliana Rangel, Associate Professor of Apiculture in the Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University May 2, 2024 Skip Richter discusses issues facing bees, the science of apiculture, and the Texas A&M Honeybee Lab with Dr. Juliana Rangel, Associate Professor of Apiculture in the Department of Entomology at Texas A&M University.
Garden Success – 4/25/2024: Q&A With Skip Richter April 25, 2024 Skip Richter discusses listener questions about fire ants, rose rosette, seed onion bulbs, as well as general information about lawn care and A&M Agrilife Extension resources.
Garden Success – 4/18/2024: Q&A With Skip Richter April 18, 2024 Skip Richter discusses How to select the right fertilizer for your lawn or trees, soil testing information, listener questions about dwarf yaupon & fuzzy black caterpillars, and more.
Garden Success – 4/11/2024: Q&A With Skip Richter April 11, 2024 Skip Richter discusses listener questions on an oak tree with separating bark, what's happening with juniper trees around town, lawn weed identification & treatment plans, and other information including how to evaluate your lawn's irrigation system to ensure adequate watering with minimal wasted water.
Garden Success – 4/4/2024: Q&A With Skip Richter April 4, 2024
Garden Success – 3/28/2024: Q&A With Skip Richter March 28, 2024
Garden Success – 3/21/2024: Q&A With Skip Richter March 21, 2024
Garden Success – 3/14/2024: Q&A With Skip Richter March 14, 2024
Garden Success – 2/29/2024: Q&A With Skip Richter February 29, 2024
Garden Success – 2/22/2024: Q&A With Skip Richter February 22, 2024
Garden Success – 2/15/2024: A Conversation with Charlie Hall February 15, 2024
Garden Success – 2/8/2024: Wine & Grapes February 8, 2024
Garden Success – 2/1/2024: A Conversation with Dave Appel February 1, 2024
Garden Success – 1/25/2024: A Conversation with Jay White January 25, 2024
Garden Success – 1/18/2024: A Conversation with Meng Meng Gu January 18, 2024
Garden Success – 1/11/2024: 50 Gardener Mistakes January 11, 2024
Garden Success – 1/4/2024: A Conversation with Sandy Dillard January 4, 2024
Garden Success – 12/28/2023: Common Gardening Mistakes December 28, 2023
Garden Success – 12/21/2023: Q&A With Skip Richter December 21, 2023
Garden Success – 12/14/2023: Answers To Common Questions December 14, 2023
Garden Success – 12/7/2023: Seasonal & Evergreen Tips December 7, 2023
Garden Success – 11/30/2023: Q&A With Skip Richter November 30, 2023
Garden Success – 11/23/2023: Holiday Season To-Do List and Gift Ideas November 23, 2023
Garden Success – 11/16/2023: Q&A With Skip Richter November 16, 2023
Garden Success – 11/9/2023: Q&A With Skip Richter November 9, 2023
Garden Success – 11/2/2023: A Conversation with Paul Winski November 2, 2023
Garden Success – 10/26/2023: Q&A With Skip Richter October 26, 2023
Garden Success – 10/19/2023: Q&A With Skip Richter October 19, 2023
Garden Success – 10/5/2023: Q&A With Skip Richter October 5, 2023
Garden Success – 9/28/2023: A Conversation with Michael Potter, Montgomery County Horticulture Agent September 28, 2023
Garden Success – 9/21/2023: Q&A With Skip Richter September 21, 2023
Garden Success – 9/14/2023: Q&A With Skip Richter September 14, 2023
Garden Success – 9/7/2023: Q&A With Skip Richter September 7, 2023
Garden Success – 8/31/2023: Q&A With Skip Richter August 31, 2023
Garden Success – 8/24/2023: Q&A With Skip Richter August 24, 2023
Garden Success – 8/17/2023: A Conversation with Dr. Tim Hartmann August 17, 2023
Garden Success – 8/10/2023: A Conversation with Morgan Abbott August 10, 2023
Garden Success – 8/3/2023: Q&A With Skip Richter August 3, 2023
Garden Success – 7/27/2023: Q&A With Skip Richter July 27, 2023
Garden Success – 7/13/2023: Q&A With Skip Richter July 13, 2023
Garden Success – 7/6/2023: Q&A With Skip Richter July 6, 2023
Garden Success – 6/29/2023: Q&A With Skip Richter June 29, 2023
Garden Success – 6/22/2023: Q&A With Skip Richter June 22, 2023
Garden Success – 6/15/2023: Q&A With Skip Richter June 15, 2023
Garden Success – 6/8/2023: Q&A With Skip Richter June 8, 2023
Garden Success – 6/1/2023: Q&A With Skip Richter June 1, 2023
Garden Success – 5/25/2023: Q&A With Skip Richter May 25, 2023
Garden Success – 5/18/2023: Q&A With Skip Richter May 18, 2023
Garden Success – 5/11/2023: Q&A With Skip Richter May 11, 2023
