The Garden Show with Charlie Dobbin
Gardening
Zoomer Radio’s Garden Show host is noted author, columnist, radio and HGTV personality Charlie Dobbin. She’ll update you with each week’s gardening tips and professional advice, while taking your calls and having some fun with gardening as well. Every Saturday from 9-10am on Zoomer Radio AM740 and FM96.7
Location:
Toronto, ON
Genres:
Gardening
Description:
Zoomer Radio’s Garden Show host is noted author, columnist, radio and HGTV personality Charlie Dobbin. She’ll update you with each week’s gardening tips and professional advice, while taking your calls and having some fun with gardening as well. Every Saturday from 9-10am on Zoomer Radio AM740 and FM96.7
Twitter:
@zoomerradio
Language:
English
Contact:
AM 740 550 Queen Street East, Suite 205 Toronto, Ontario M5A 1V2 1-866-740-4740
Email:
david@zoomer.ca
Episodes
Invasive Weeds & English Ivy + Fruit Tree Tips From An Expert!
3/1/2025
Colin Campbell joins show from the 'hood' to share tips on apple tree care, Maple madness and more. Meanwhile callers have cut tulips falling over, weeds in vegetable gardens, squirrels stripping lilac bushes and English ivy taking over. Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer Radio
Duration:00:43:32
Happy Orchids, Ferns, Amaryllis, Hibiscus and Birds!
2/22/2025
Plants are thriving with the longer days and callers need advice. To re-pot or not very overgrown Amaryllis? What about orchids that have formed "pips" (baby plants) on flower stems? Dean and Charlie weigh in on the power of a heated bird bath. And Sue has been saving wood ashes and eggshells all winter. What to do with them? Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer Radio
Duration:00:43:08
It's Flag Day!
2/15/2025
60 years ago the red & white maple leaf flag was raised over Parliament Hill. Proud to be a Canadian during turbulent times! Meanwhile, it's time to prune Forsythia for indoor forcing. How to propagate African violets, Virginia creeper and let's talk succession planting in preparation for summer! Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer Radio
Duration:00:43:37
Llama Poo, Bark-Eating Squirrels and More!
2/8/2025
Fireplace ash for the garden (how much?), thistle infestation in raised garden beds (how eradicate?), super-long English ivy stems (how propagate?) and Amaryllis still dormant! Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer Radio
Duration:00:42:55
Orchids, Mums & Amaryllis
2/1/2025
Keeping Amaryllis healthy and blooming for many years is easy - fertilizing, re-potting and more. We discuss soggy orchid care plus a caller is searching for specific Chrysanthemums. Another caller has a good suggestion! Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer Radio
Duration:00:39:12
Uruguay Calling
1/25/2025
We chat about Robbie Burns Day and Scottish thistles. Watering orchids, Christmas cactus failing, box tree moths, and a caller from Uruguay tells us about Lady of the Night (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) blooming recently. The fragrance is magnificent! Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer Radio
Duration:00:43:00
Native Plants, Rosemary and Snowmobiles in the Garden!
1/18/2025
Rick Gray, co-author of The Gardener's Guide to Native Plants of the Southern Great Lakes Region, joins us on the show. We discuss milkweed tussock moths, the region this book is relevant to, promoting insects and birds in our gardens, and when volume 2 & 3 will be published to include native trees. NativePlantGardener.ca for more info. Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer Radio
Duration:00:43:29
Orchids, Amaryllis and More!
1/11/2025
We talk orchids with Terry Kennedy, orchid expert and co-owner of Orchids in Our Tropics. Callers are interested in best media, best fertilizer and how the heck do you know when to water an orchid?!? Shrub suggestions for a bay window, geranium propagation, and more about Amaryllis. Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer Radio
Duration:00:44:16
Fertilizer - When, What and How?
1/4/2025
Orchids, Amaryllis, Dahlias and palms. All need attention now! Plus how to find OMAFRA factsheets on the web. Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer Radio
Duration:00:44:50
Walnut Woodchips and Smelts in Trenches for Raspberries
12/28/2024
Marked down Amaryllis, winter mulch on roses and lavender, potted spruce on the 9th floor, and raspberries that don't provide fruit. We discuss OMAFRA factsheets, and frankly, just how hard they are to access! Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer Radio
Duration:00:44:06
Winter Solstice means more light is on the way!
12/21/2024
Old roses, Poinsettia defoliation, propagating Christmas cactus, and saving eggshells for the garden. All this and more! Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer Radio
Duration:00:43:41
Sprouts, Birds, Seeds and Tillandsia This Week!
12/14/2024
Callers are few; so Charlie & Dean chat about growing sprouts and microgreens, frozen jade plants and birds. Superhero caller Jean uses this opportunity to call twice in one show! Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer Radio
Duration:00:44:33
To Tarp the Vegetable Garden or Not?
12/8/2024
Propagating figs, moving old roses and droopy Poinsettias. It doesn't get more fun than this! Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer Radio
Duration:00:43:56
It's Winter Bloom Season!
11/30/2024
More about leaving the leaves on the lawn, overwintering tropical Agapanthus and Dipladenia, fall mums, Poinsettia care and of course, Amaryllis. Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer Radio
Duration:00:42:48
Birds & Squirrels - Love Them or Not?!?
11/23/2024
Paul Oliver from the Urban Nature Store joins the show to share tips and information about caring for our feathered friends. Callers need how to overwinter water lilies, force bulbs indoors, and care for tropical Hibiscus. Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer Radio
Duration:00:43:04
Mulch, Weeds, Peonies and Cyclamen. Winter is coming!
11/16/2024
Can there be too many leaves on the garden beds? What about storing calla lilies overwinter? Will roses survive after being stripped by Japanese beetles earlier in the season? And lots more... Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer Radio
Duration:00:42:44
Leave the leaves? And more on Pruning!
11/9/2024
Pruning Rose of Sharon, Bougainvillea, a cedar hedge, and Clematis. Great tip to repel squirrels, and should we put small rocks in the bottom of pots when planting? Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer Radio
Duration:00:42:57
Pesky Roots, Squirrels and Cats!
11/2/2024
Callers have tips for controlling cats indoors and squirrels outdoors. Roots growing into raised gardens, storing tender bulbs overwinter and indoor tropical plants defoliating. Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer Radio
Duration:00:43:33
Overwintering Tender Bulbs
10/26/2024
Caring for Dipladenia, Lisianthus, and Dahlia tubers over the winter is topical. Keeping a plant-eating cat under control, and Hydrangeas with no flowers are also covered this week on the Garden Show. Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer Radio
Duration:00:43:18
Winter is Coming! Fertilizers, transplanting and indoor plant care are all addressed this week.
10/19/2024
This week it's all about fall lawn fertilizer, pruning Holly and Dogwood, transplanting and insects on plants coming indoors for the winter. Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer Radio
Duration:00:43:01