Home and How To

Healing Plants & Edibles for Us and Wildlife

Central Texas Gardener takes brand-new and seasoned gardeners down a sustainable garden path with organic techniques, water-wise plants, and homegrown food. Get design inspiration, hands-on how-to, and behind-the-scenes tours of Texas gardeners at home.

Season 21 Episode 22 | 26m 46s | CC

Have you ever bought tea tree oil for its antiseptic healing? What about growing your own? Jay Beard from Lone Star Nursery picks a few under-the-radar edible and beneficial plants for us and the Monarch butterflies. On tour, the Compost Pedallers cycle to recycle household scraps to fuel local food. John Dromgoole shows how to nourish soil with edible summer cover crops.

Central Texas Gardener

Watch more episodes

26:46

Central Texas Gardener

Garden Conservancy Tour 2015

Get ideas for your low-water design, whatever your style.

26:46

Central Texas Gardener

Wrangling Water and Erosion

Rain’s a good thing unless its overflow heads for your house instead of the garden.

26:46

Central Texas Gardener

Garden Design for the Future

Landscape architect students illustrate designs that face the future. On tour, a multil...

Support for CTG is provided by: Lisa & Desi Rhoden, and Diane Land & Steve Adler. Central Texas Gardener is produced by Austin PBS, KLRU-TV and distributed by NETA.

Subscribe to Our Newsletters

Get trusted Colorado stories, programs, and events from Rocky Mountain PBS straight to your inbox.

Set Your Preferences >