Container for a Sunny Deck

Kelley Hafer's family enjoys lounging by their backyard pool but plants have had a hard time surviving the heat and glare. Walter teaches Kelley the finer points of container design ("Uppy, Downy, All Aroundey!") but they do it in the shade of the porch!

Lemon Plants

For some reason, many plants have a lemon fragrance. Master herb grower Patricia Collins brings several to show Walter AND she brings cookies flavored with the lemon balm plant.

Cabbage Aphids

Walter receives an interesting email via the RM2 Garden Satellite Receiver: how to control "lice"on cabbage. Is it time to hit the garden panic button? Walter considers the problem and decides that the panic button shall remain un-punched!

Bottle Bushes & Other Garden Art

Do you have haints in your garden? Do your tomatoes look poorly? Does your squash vine wilt? Walter shows how to build a bottle shrub that is guaranteed to keep haints, elephants, and alligators out of your landscape. And if you’ve ever wanted to inexpensively decorate an agave or aloe plant... why not use a Styrofoam egg carton? Walter says this will bring more comments than ANY other plant you have!