Yard and Garden with Nicole
Recording of the Yard and Garden radio show from Ol' Red 99.5 FM through the growing season. The host is Nicole Stoner with Nebraska Extension and features a different guest host each week. The show features recordings of call-in questions from the listeners as well as discussions on yard and garden topics of the day.
Episodes
88 episodes
June 27, 2025 Yard and Garden
In this episode Kyle Koch, Extension Educator and Insect Diagnostician from UNL, joins Nicole Stoner from Nebraska Extension to discuss weed management, squash bugs, physiological leaf curl, and tree pruning, among other topics.
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Season 2025
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Episode 14
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1:10:17
June 20, 2025 Yard and Garden
In this episode Steve Karloff, District Forester with the Nebraska Forest Service, and Payton Smidt, Gage County Summer Intern and UNL Student, join Nicole Stoner from Nebraska Extension to discuss watering trees, hosta slugs, Emerald Ash Borer...
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Season 2025
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Episode 13
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1:09:57
June 13, 2025 Yard and Garden
In this episode Ian Peterson Extension Educator in Dodge County joins Nicole Stoner from Nebraska Extension to discuss lawn weeds, vegetable gardens, drought effects on trees, and fungus gnats, among other topics.
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Episode 12
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1:13:44
June 6, 2025 Yard and Garden
In this episode Dana Freeman, Urban Ag and Local Foods Instructor for Nebraska Extension, joins Nicole Stoner from Nebraska Extension to discuss lawn weeds, bagworms, winter injury, and rose care, among other topics.
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Episode 11
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1:08:00
May 30, 2025 Yard and Garden
In this episode Kyle Broderick, Plant Pathology Extension Educator at UNL, joins Nicole Stoner from Nebraska Extension to discuss environmental damage, tree injury, aphids, and weed management, among other topics.
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Episode 10
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1:10:35
May 23, 2025 Yard and Garden
In this episode Jody Green, Urban Entomologist Extension Educator in Douglas and Sarpy Counties, joins Nicole Stoner from Nebraska Extension to discuss when to plant, growing onions, chiggers, and termites, among other topics.
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Episode 9
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1:08:21
May 16, 2025 Yard and Garden
In this episode John Fech, Extension Educator in Douglas and Sarpy Counties joins Nicole Stoner from Nebraska Extension to discuss tree suckers, transplanting, and windbreak renovation, among other topics.
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Episode 8
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1:08:38
May 9, 2025 Yard and Garden
In this episode Carol Waters and Scott Evans from Nebraska Extension to discuss vegetable gardens, lawns, and fruit trees, among other topics.
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Episode 7
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1:07:08
May 2, 2025 Yard and Garden
In this episode Andrew Campbell from Campbell's Nursery joins Nicole Stoner from Nebraska Extension to discuss vegetable gardens, pruning, and transplanting, among other topics.
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Episode 6
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1:09:49
April 25, 2025 Yard and Garden
In this episode Chelsea Tietjen and Myah Vrbka Instructors from Southeast Community College join Nicole Stoner from Nebraska Extension to discuss lawn irrigation, mowing, and thatching, flower garden selection and peaches, among other topics. &...
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Episode 5
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1:08:39
April 18, 2025 Yard and Garden
In this episode Graham Herbst from the Nebraska Forest Service joins Nicole Stoner from Nebraska Extension to discuss henbit, staking trees, and what to grow underneath trees, among other topics.
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Episode 4
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1:08:05
April 11, 2025 Yard and Garden
In this episode George Pinkerton, Co-Owner of Roseland Nursery joins Nicole Stoner from Nebraska Extension to discuss Spring lawncare, irrigation, and tree selection among other topics.
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Episode 3
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1:10:35
Yard and Garden Extra - March 28, 2025
In this episode of Yard and Garden Extra, John Fech, Extension Educator in Douglas/Sarpy County Extension, joins Nicole Stoner to discuss spring lawn and garden cleanup and which things we should wait a little longer to cleanup and manage in th...
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Episode 2
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12:09
Yard and Garden Extra - March 6, 2025
New Podcast recording called "Yard and Garden Extra" will fill in time between Yard and Garden episodes. Carol Waters, Commercial Fruit and Vegetable Production Extension Educator with Nebraska Extension, joins Nicole Stoner on this episo...
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Episode 1
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28:10
September 20, 2024 Yard and Garden
In this episode Jay Seaton from the Nebraska Forest Service joins Sarah Browning from Nebraska Extension to discuss fall and winter watering and other fall lawn and garden activities, among other topics.
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Season 2024
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Episode 17
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1:02:44
September 13, 2024 Yard and Garden
In this episode Steve Karloff from the Nebraska Forest Service joins Nicole Stoner from Nebraska Extension to discuss transplanting, hardiness zones, and tree care, among other topics.
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Season 2024
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Episode 16
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1:06:56
July 26, 2024 Yard and Garden
In this episode Laurie Stepanek from the Nebraska Forest Service joins Nicole Stoner from Nebraska Extension to discuss reseeding a lawn, proper irrigation, fall gardens, and juglone toxicity, among other topics.
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Season 2024
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Episode 15
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1:12:21
July 19, 2024 Yard and Garden
In this episode Jennifer Morris from the Nebraska Forest Service joins Nicole Stoner from Nebraska Extension to discuss lawn weeds, fruit trees, fall gardens, and curing onions, among other topics.
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Episode 14
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1:07:41
July 12, 2024 Yard and Garden
In this episode Bob Henrickson, Horticulture Program Coordinator from the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum joins Nicole Stoner from Nebraska Extension to discuss herbicide drift, crabgrass, blossom end rot, and Japanese beetles, among other topics....
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Season 2024
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Episode 13
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1:11:14
June 28, 2024 Yard and Garden
In this episode Scott Evans, Horticulture Program Coordinator from Douglas & Sarpy County joins Nicole Stoner from Nebraska Extension to discuss Rhubarb, herbicide drift, sedges, and asters yellow, among other topics.
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Episode 12
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1:10:48
June 21, 2024 Yard and Garden
In this episode Kyle Broderick, Plant Pathology Extension Educator from UNL joins Nicole Stoner from Nebraska Extension to discuss canker on fruit trees, asparagus, pine wilt, and environmental stress to plants, among other topics. ...
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Episode 11
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1:07:54
June 14, 2024 Yard and Garden
In this episode Ian Peterson, Extension Educator from Dodge County joins Nicole Stoner from Nebraska Extension to discuss herbicide injury, weed control in strawberries, and squirrel damage on fruit trees, among other topics.
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Episode 10
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1:10:26
June 7, 2024 Yard and Garden
In this episode Kyle Koch, Extension Educator and UNL Insect Diagnostician joins Nicole Stoner from Nebraska Extension to discuss mulching, lack of peach blossoms, and peonies, among other topics.
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Season 2024
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Episode 9
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1:07:00