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You Bet Your Garden airs Mondays @ 3 p.m. Wednesdays @ 5 p.m. and Saturdays @ 10 a.m.

Garden Guru, public radio host and former Organic Gardening Editor-in-Chief Mike McGrath tackles your toughest garden, lawn and pest problems every week.

The popular radio show, You Bet Your Garden® is an hour of "chemical-free horticultural hijinks." This weekly, nationally syndicated broadcast is hosted by Mike McGrath and produced in Bethlehem, Pa. 

This weekly call-in program offers ‘fiercely organic’ advice to gardeners far and wide.

Watch Saturdays at 10 a.m. on PBS39!

Have a question for Mike?  Call us anytime at 1-888-4YBYG44 (1-888-492-9444) or email YBYG@wlvt.org.

UPCOMING EVENTS with MIKE

Wednesday June 7th at 6:30 pm: Mike will appear at the Exeter Public Library in Reading to tell Tall Tales, answer your garden questions and sign books. Remember: Father’s Day is coming! Details here: https://www.berkslibraries.org/branch/exeter and https://www.facebook.com/events/782938136690009 

Monday July 31st at 7pm: Mike downa’ shore! Mike will be appearing for the Avalon Free Public Library at Surfside Park in Avalon New Jersey on Monday July 31 at 7 pm. It’s an ‘outdoor on the lawn event’ so bring blankets, chairs and maybe even a dinner-time picnic basket! The event is free and we can skedaddle indoors if weather is less than clement. You’ll find more information here: https://www.avalonfreelibrary.org/

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ABOUT THE HOST

MIKE MCGRATH

Mike is also host of the nationally syndicated weekly public radio show You Bet Your Garden. An hour of “chemical-free horticultural hijinks,” this popular program has been on PBS39 since 2018. From 1993 through 1997, Mike was the regular gardening expert on the weekend edition of The Today Show, Saturday mornings on NBC. He has also appeared on Nova, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, PBS Healthweek, CNN, FOX and as a regular contributor on the weekly PBS TV series Your Organic Garden and the Discovery Channel’s Home Matters.

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