In 1919, William Randolph Hearst approached architect Julia Morgan about building “something more comfortable” than the tent he was used to camping in atop the family-owned hill in San Simeon. What happened next was, well, history. Join Joe Truskot & Steven E. Popp as we talk with former State Parks employee Rick Becton, who spent a decade […]
11 Jun 2026
Poisonous Garden Plants
Gardens are bursting with growth and color! How many of those flowers, along with the other plants in our gardens that we may love and cherish, contain dangerous, often lethal, naturally occurring poisons?Many common flowers, fruits, and even vegetables (along with certain weeds and wild plants) may pose serious health and safety hazards to you, […]
22 May 2026
Poisonous Plants in Your Garden
Gardens are bursting with growth and color! How many of those flowers, along with the other plants in our gardens that we may love and cherish, contain dangerous, often lethal, naturally occurring poisons?Many common flowers, fruits, and even vegetables (along with certain weeds and wild plants) may pose serious health and safety hazards to you, […]
14 Apr 2026
Growing up at a Family Nursery
Jeff Nilsen, owner and proprietor of Bokay Nursery on Hitchcock Road in Salinas, has never lived a day when he wasn’t involved in the nursery. His grandfather purchased and developed it into a Salinas institution before he was born. Nilsen shares the evolution of the nursery and landscape business in an informative and fun conversation […]
7 Dec 2025
Marco Poehler: Life in a Colombian Nature Preserve
Until recently, Colombia was the 13th largest importer of agricultural commodities to the US. Top among them are coffee, tea, and spices, live trees and nursery plants, bananas and plantains, and snack foods. All totaling more than 2.7 billion annually. In this rebroadcast show from 2022 our guest Marco Poehner, who spends about half of […]
30 Nov 2025
Hilarious Chat About Holiday Plants
“People who garden always have something good to look forward to,” Dr. Martin Quigley. Join him, Steven E. Popp, and Joe Truskot — the “In The Garden” guys for their fun take on pine trees, poinsettias, and the holiday color palettes. Living things can create new holiday memories with their beauty, their scents, and their […]
5 Sept 2025
Watsonville’s Whiskey Hill Farm Explored
In The Garden, KSQD’s weekly garden show, airs a conversation from February 8, 2025, with Dave Blume of Whiskey Hill Experimental and Educational Farm. Dave’s energy is infectious, and his nontraditional agricultural methods are jaw-dropping and inspirational; 9 to 10 a.m., Saturday, September 6, 2025, Hosted by Steven E. Popp and Joe Truskot with Dr. […]
30 May 2025
Libri horti in perpetuum
Steven E. Popp and Joe Truskot discuss influential garden books and share insights from their experiences with plants in this interview.
21 Apr 2025
Growing Avocados on California’s Central Coast
Ellen Baker and Freddy Menge discuss the avocados they grow at Epicenter Avocado Nursery in La Selva, California, south of Santa Cruz. They appeared on KSQD;’s weekly garden show “In The Garden” with Steven E. Popp and Joe Truskot, 9 to 10 a.m., March 29, 2025
2 Feb 2024
Let’s Talk Mushrooms
Mushrooms Rebroadcast featuring Veleny Pierce on KSQD’s In The Garden with Steven E. Popp and me. Learn about this incredibly useful organism from a pro, 9 to 10 a.m., Saturday, February 3, 2024 on 90.7 – 89.7 – 89.5 FM and ksqd.org. Originally aired on Saturday, January 6, 2023.
29 Jan 2024
Put a Plant In Your Parlor
They add oxygen to the air, absorb sound, thrive on carbon dioxide, and, perhaps most meaningfully help you express your aesthetic. In The Garden hosts Steven E. Popp and Joe Truskot tell all the secrets of living with healthy houseplants.
6 Mar 2023
King of Cimbidiums Andy Easton talks orchids
Internationally recognized orchid hybridizer Andy Easton joins Joe Truskot and Steven E. Popp on KSQD’s weekly garden show, “In The Garden.” Andy was visiting California from his new home in El Retiro, Colombia.
22 Jan 2023
The Good Greenhouse
Steven E. Popp describes the benefits of growing plants under glass and explores the commercial greenhouses we see in the local landscape and also the small ones in backyards.
17 Jan 2023
Pruning time for roses is here
Join Joe Truskot and Steven E. Popp, hosts of KSQD’s In The Garden for their January 14, 2023 show on the basics of pruning. You’ll learn four reasons why it’s important to prune and also the four “D’s” of pruning. Plus inside information on getting more and bigger blossoms in the spring. It’s a fun […]
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