You Bet Your Garden
Hosted by Mike McGrath · WDIY 88.1 FM
4.6from 33 ratings
- 77
- Episodes
- 4
- Transcribed
- 33
- Ratings
- 2024
- First episode
About You Bet Your Garden
Garden Guru and former Organic Gardening Editor-in-Chief Mike McGrath tackled listeners' toughest garden, lawn, and pest problems in this hour-long program that aired on WDIY between 2024 and 2026.Mike McGrath has since ended the radio version of the program. The episodes that aired on WDIY are archived here as well as major podcasting platforms, including:SpotifyApple PodcastsPodbeanNPR.org
- Publisher
- WDIY 88.1 FM
- Category
- education · health & fitness · leisure
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 23 Sept 2024
- Latest episode
- 29 May 2026
Latest episodes
4 of 77 episodes have a transcript.
29 May 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Story Behind Haint Blue Paint | You Bet Your Garden
22 May 2026TRANSCRIPT
Sawflies: A Truly Weird Garden Pest | You Bet Your Garden
15 May 2026TRANSCRIPT
Helping Your Hopeless Hydrangeas | You Bet Your Garden
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The Story Behind Haint Blue Paint | You Bet Your Garden
Published 29 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I was just reading again an article from National Geographic about a guy who's trying to research the plants of the rainforest in Madagascar while it's still there. And he mentioned a rosy periwinkle that was more than just a pretty flower. It turned out to provide the cure for lymphoma, one of the juvenile cancers, Hodgkin's disease. Real easy to see, oh, it's a flower. Well, there's plenty of flowers in the world. Okay, guys, start cutting the trees. And instead go, you know, this may save some thousands, not only of lives, but of a terrible end of life. Sure. Yeah. We tend to forget that. not only nature, the diversity of it and how wonderful it is and intrinsically valuable, but we tend to forget what it can do for us, what it can do for us. […]
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- 33 ratings
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- YouTube
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