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Plain Gardening: Goldenrod
This is the season for goldenrod, a beautiful plant that once was Alabama’s state flower. Goldenrod looks like a plant that would be a terrible allergen, but Gardening expert Bill Finch says that...
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Digging Your Garden
We went through the end of September, all of October, and now the beginning of November with zero rainfall along the Gulf Coast. Bill Finch says the ground is now hard as a rock, and it’s fall...
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Plain Gardening
Gardening expert Bill Finch says the secret to his lush kale, chard, and broccoli is trickle watering. In any drought, you want to conserve water, and Bill says this method does just that while...
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Plain Gardening: Bellingrath Gardens Fall Mum Show
Gardening expert Bill Finch says Bellingrath’s display of cascading chrysanthemums is the biggest anywhere! This year’s warm fall has brought the mums out a little later than usual, so now that...
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Plain Gardening: Poinsettias
What do you do with poinsettias after the holidays are over? Throw ‘em out? Gardening Expert Bill Finch says no! He keeps his, and even borrows poinsettias from other folks because they grow so well...
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Plain Gardening: Seeds
Annual plants like Mexican Sunflower and Coleus won’t survive a Gulf Coast winter, but gardening expert Bill Finch says you can take lots of 2016 plants into 2017 by gathering seeds and clippings now....
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Plain Gardening: Is It Dead Yet?
We’re in the time of year we call the “Gulf Coast roller-coaster of weather”; temperatures swing from very cold to very warm and back again. That causes lots of dead-looking foliage, especially...
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Plain Gardening: Camellia Collection
This week’s episode of Plain Gardening takes place at a world-famous Gulf Coast garden that few locals have seen. Bill Finch takes us through the Camellia Collection at Mobile Botanical Gardens. For...
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Plain Gardening: The Fringe Tree
Stokely’s Garden Express presents Plain Gardening with John Nodar and Bill Finch! In this week’s episode, one of Bill’s favorite trees… the Fringe Tree!
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Plain Gardening: The Alabama Bluebonnet
In Plain Gardening Sponsored by Stokely’s Garden Express, John Nodar and Bill Finch take a close look at the lupin, also known at the Alabama Bluebonnet!
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PLAIN GARDENING: Give Peas a Chance
Let there be peas on Earth! It’s harvest time for our pea-pickin’ gardening expert Bill Finch. A few weeks ago, we built a trellis on Plain Gardening, and now that trellis is covered in peas. We...
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PLAIN GARDENING: Cucumber Blossoms
Bill Finch with the Mobile Botanical Gardens tells you how to take care of your cucumber blossoms.
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PLAIN GARDENING: Snakes
Bill Finch from the Mobile Botanical Gardens discusses the snakes you might discover in your garden.
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Plain Gardening: “The moss is killing my grass!”
This week, Plain Gardening visits the home of News 5 Chief Photographer Gary “Bubba” Arnold. Bubba’s dealing with an issue that bothers lots of folks in our well-treed corner of the world: it’s hard...
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Midtown Fancy Gardening
Today’s Plain Gardening takes you to a beautiful spot in Midtown Mobile, one of the nine gardens that are in the Gallery of Gardens benefiting Mobile Botanical Gardens this weekend. Gallery of...
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Plain Gardening: Bill Finch shares some ‘strange plants’
MOBILE, Alabama (WKRG) – It’s spring, and almost everything is in bloom! Except Gardening Expert Bill Finch says spring is long past for the Gulf Coast and we’re well into American Summer—that time of...
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Plain Gardening: Plush Lawns
MOBILE, Alabama (WKRG) — Is your yard dead? With big bare spots where even weeds won’t grow? You’re not alone. Gardening Expert Bill Finch says while new sod can make a difference, that difference...
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Plain Gardening: Crepe Myrtle Bark Scale Disease
Look around. Chances are, if you’re outdoors on the Gulf Coast, you’ll see a crepe myrtle tree. Gardening Expert Bill Finch says he read an article written 100 years ago in which the authors...
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Plain Gardening: Resurrection Fern
(WKRG)-A question from a Plain Gardening viewer to gardening expert Bill Finch: “what’s that pinkish-brownish crunchy stuff on my oak trees?” Bill says the answer is Resurrection Fern. For the...
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Plain Gardening: Spanish Moss
(WKRG)- This edition of Plain Gardening starts with a wizard-like Gardening Expert Bill Finch with his head draped in Spanish moss. My mom said Spanish moss had bugs in it, and wouldn’t let me bring...
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