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A rebroadcast with Kerry Ann Mendez, the flower garden guru. This week, she tells us how to get our perennial beds and borders ready for spring, and start

new ones.

Joel Karsten is an advocate of "straw bale" gardening -- he's planting

vegetables right into decomposing bales of straw with great results.

Gregg Tepper, Director of Horticulture for Mt. Cuba Center, talks about one of America's most beautiful native and natural public gardens.

A rebroadcast with wildlife biologist Patrick Carr on the bear facts about the state of the largest land mammal in the Garden State.

Kathy Salisbury, the President of the Native Plant Society of New

Jersey, talks about threatened species, parkland and inner city kids

in the Garden State.

I learn about new (to me) "citrus caviar" and talk about more discoveries in the kitchen "hort lab."

Our guest is Carole Sevilla Brown, a Conservation Biologist who firmly believes that helping wildlife begins in our own backyards.

A rebroadcast with Kathy Tracey from Avant Gardens, who shares some of the new super plant-eye-candy that were available in 2012.

A new book, The Hamptons & Long Island Homegrown Cookbook, features restauranteurs and the farmers who grow for their tables.

David Culp, vice president of the wholesale perennial nursery, Sunny

Border, talks about plants and his garden at Brandywine Cottage.