It's always wonderful to see Heather Abraham and David Highfield at Pittsburgh Today Live.

We covered a lot of ground today, how to water the right way, deadheading and even how to start a garden in July.

I had a great talk with Linda Smith author of The Peach Thief, a book I loved. It’s set in the 1850’s and follows the adventures of Scilla Brown, a workhouse orphan in 1850s England posing as a boy to get a job in a wealthy earl's garden after being caught trying to steal a peach.

We had fun on PTL discussing ways to keep tomatoes healthy through the growing season. It’s been a cool, wet spring which can be problematic for the plants.

Joe Hamm passed away recently, he was a wonderful man who loved gardening and daffodils.

I love Rhonda Flemming Hayes’ book Garden for Life: Strategies for Easier, Greener, More Joyful Gardening as We Age.
She was my guest on The Organic Gardener Radio Show Sunday May 24, 2026.

Allium leafminer has infested my garlic. Here’s what I’m doing to try and save the plants.