Seasonal garden answers, one caller at a time.
Gardening With Angelo gives home gardeners timely, plainspoken advice for lawns, shrubs, perennials, trees, and vegetable beds. Its rhythm is seasonal and practical, moving from spring soil prep to fall cleanup through real caller problems.
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Gardening With Angelo is a seasonal garden help desk with dirt under its fingernails. The show works from the week’s conditions: warm spells, frost warnings, wet soil, dry fall color, spring growth arriving early, and winter damage finally showing on shrubs. Angelo Petitti anchors the format with direct, practical guidance, while Noelle is in for Angelo when he is away or under the weather. The pacing is steady and task-focused. Listeners call about boxwoods, hydrangeas, apple trees, golden cypress, irises, lilies, mums, lawns, soil tests, pests, and deer pressure. Answers usually come as a sequence of steps. Dig the new hole first. Prepare the soil. Watch the drainage. Feed at the right time. Do not cut too hard too late. Cover tender plants when frost threatens. Leave enough branches for recovery. The show’s strength is its timing. It treats April lawn care differently from fall lawn care, and it links crabgrass preventer to both the lawn calendar and signs like forsythia bloom. It also respects weather swings, especially the rollercoaster temperatures that make spring decisions tricky. Noelle’s episodes lean into soil testing, pH, nutrient levels, vegetable beds, grass seed, and pre-emergent lawn care. Angelo’s episodes often move through caller situations with a confident sense of what a plant can tolerate. A severely cut shrub may look woody at first, but the show explains when new growth should return and why timing matters. The advice is not abstract. It is built for yards, beds, garages, pots, and plants that have been through real weather. Gardeners looking for glossy inspiration may find it plain. Gardeners trying to decide what to prune, move, feed, cover, dry out, or leave alone will find a useful companion.
Made for: For home gardeners who want timely, usable advice on lawns, shrubs, perennials, trees, soil, pests, and seasonal cleanup. It especially fits people managing real yard problems week by week.
What sets it apart: The show stands out through its caller-driven specificity and tight connection to current weather, soil moisture, frost risk, and plant growth stages. It gives practical timing as much weight as plant knowledge.
Hear Gardening With Angelo Saturday mornings on Newsradio WTAM 1100.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Angelo Petitti turns callers' seasonal yard problems into specific guidance on planting, pruning, pests, frost, and overwintering.
Gardening With Angelo turns yard problems into live, season-aware troubleshooting. Angelo Petitti takes callers from broad worries to usable decisions, asking what they planted, when they plan to act, and what conditions they are dealing with.
Two nodes below a hydrangea bloom: suddenly your nervous pruning hand has a stopping point.
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Angelo Petitti covers early garden growth, planting boxwoods and preparing vulnerable plants for possible frost.
A warm week has brought garden growth forward, and Angelo Petitti turns that early start into a list of jobs. He recommends dividing perennials while the soil still has good moisture, with their new spots prepared before the plants come out.
Angelo walks Jeff through when and how to move his older hydrangeas.
Jeff has two jobs in his yard, starting with a couple of older hydrangeas that bloom blue and pink. Angelo tells him to wait until the end of the month or the first week of April to move them.
The host advises when to cut back an overgrown golden cypress and what to expect while it regrows.
A caller with an overgrown golden cypress wants to know whether it can be cut back hard. The host says it can, as long as enough branches remain for regrowth. He advises doing the work by mid-April, giving the plant time to put on new growth in spring.
Angelo closes his gardening season with winter advice on lawns, mums, irises, and potted lily bulbs.
As leaves come down, Angelo Petitti spends his last gardening show of the season on winter preparation. He recommends lowering the lawnmower to an inch and a half and explains how to keep spent porch mums for spring. The callers bring him more specific problems.
Keeping tropical plants above about 45 degrees and pruning hydrangeas according to type.
This episode tackles two familiar gardening decisions: where to keep tropical plants as temperatures drop and how far to cut back hydrangeas. The speakers advise keeping the tropical plants they discuss above about 45 degrees, either indoors or in a heated garage.
A caller asks how to treat a grub-damaged lawn while keeping visiting cats away from the treatment.
A caller wants to deal with grubs in a badly torn-up lawn without putting visiting cats at risk. The damage began in late summer and continued into fall, and she recently saw an animal digging in broad daylight. Angelo takes the pet concern first.
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Angelo discusses the impact of recent rain and humidity on gardens, advising on organic pest and fungus control for vegetables and flowers.
Gardening expert Angelo Petitti provides timely tips for lawn care, pruning spring-blooming shrubs, and maintaining mums and sedum for summer blooms.
Gardening expert Angelo Petitti provides tips on watering, pruning mums and tomatoes, and general garden care during a dry spell.
Gardening With Angelo, Season 31 episode 7, covers late-April garden timing after a warm week in Northeastern Ohio.
Noelle fills in for Angelo on Gardening with Angelo, discussing April lawn care tips including overseeding and crabgrass prevention.
A gardening expert discusses winter damage to evergreens and offers tips for spring cleanup.
Noelle fills in for Angelo and discusses the importance of soil testing before prepping garden beds in spring.
Noelle discusses spring lawn care, focusing on applying crab grass preventer timed with holidays and forsythia bloom.
Angelo Petitti uses March and early April to map out pruning for boxwoods, junipers, hollies, taxus, roses, and paniculata hydrangeas on WTAM 1100.
Spring lime, gypsum, and sulfur each solve different yard problems in Angelo Petitti's yard-care list.
Host Angelo Petitti opens Gardening with Angelo with fall prep advice, including lowering mower height to an inch and a half, saving spent porch mums by moving them against the house, and wrapping in-ground fig trees with mulch, insulation, and a breathing pipe to prevent rot.
Guest host Noelle fills in for Angelo Petitti on this fall-focused call-in gardening show, opening with lawn, leaf, and bed cleanup tips before taking listener phone calls.
["Gardening With Angelo opens with Angelo Patiti talking through wet spring soil, then telling listeners to split perennials once new growth reaches about 2 inches and to mulch the divisions.", "He also gives a storage-to-outdoors timeline for dahlias, gladiolas, and geraniums, and says blue hydrangea macrophylla get aluminum sulfate now and again when buds reach quarter size.", "The middle of the show turns into a spring pest-and-weed checklist: crabgrass control goes down in the next 2-3 weeks, weed and feed is called a waste of money, and spot treatments are named for chickweed, clover, bittercrest, wild garlic, and insects around foundations.", "Callers ask about clematis, coreopsis, painted fern, perennial hibiscus, lavender, holly, arborvitae, grubs, and squirrel damage, and Angelo answers with pruning windows, mulch depth, feeding products, and pet-safe timing."]