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April showers bring May flowers, as they say, but those April rains and other harsh weather can be a real challenge for the home gardener. This week, we'll talk about the best ways to ensure that your plants have solid roots to withstand saturation, and how to help your plants breathe as well, for their best health.

Lawn weeds are a nuisance for anyone with a lawn, but they don't have to be! This week, we'll talk about the best ways to mitigate your weeds for a perfect, green lawn in your yard.

To end this set of readings with Plainwater by Anne Carson feels perfect. If not perfect, well, it still feels. Carson, once described by Bruce Hainley as “a philosopher of heartbreak” doesn’t just mix genres in her works but calls into question linguistic and cultural bedrocks that inform our reading of the continuity of human experiences.

Hello, Radio Readers! I’m Jane Holwerda and – believe it or not –it’s time to wrap up this most incredible of Spring Reads, “Water, Water, Neverwhere.”

While it's easy to remember that a plant's roots help to anchor it into the ground, one of the best reasons to help ensure a properly healthy root system is to help your plants get access to the most and best nutrients available. This week, we'll talk about how location and soil choice can help you get better yields this year!

Despite your best efforts, some of your gardening efforts can be partly or fully undone by pests or environmental issues in your neighbors'yards. But you can use their struggles to help prepare for, and prevent, such issues taking root in your gardens and yard, and we'll talk about how in this week's episode!

I’m Pat Tyrer from Canyon, Texas for the High-Plains-Public-Radio-Readers Book Club.Today I’ll be sharing some poetry, all tangentially connected to our spring theme of “Water, Water, Neverwhere.” I’ve included poems from famous poets as well as those from poets on the High Plains.

Luke talks about shooting and hunting with muzzleloader rifles in this week's High Plains Outdoors and discusses the rifles he prefers. Email Luke through his website www.catfishradio.org.

Don't take it too personally when one or more of your plants just...doesn't make it. It happens. In fact, it doesn't make you the plant murderer you might fear you've become. And in a way, it's almost freeing, as it's part of the natural cycle, and keeping this in mind, along with how much new life you're also bringing into the world, can help to deepen your relationship with your garden, and nature in general.

Join Luke and his guest guide Casey Laughlin with Chums On The Water www.chumsonthewater.com guide service. The topic this week is catching hybrid stripers (nicknamed "Wipers" in the midwest.) Warm weather puts these hard fighting great eating fish in the biting mode and fishing is very good right now at Lake Tawakoni, located about an hour east of Dallas. Many in HPPR coverage are stocked with hybrid stripers and this is a great opportunity to learn some fish catching tricks. Click to listen! Email outdoors writer Luke Clayton through his website www.catfishradio.org