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  • 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
  • When planning out your garden, give some consideration to your goals, and consider the ways that your choice of plants, and the variety you choose, will interact with each other. Knowing what you’re after will help you select the proper vegetable variety selection for your garden every year!
  • Hello everyone, this is Clifton Butt, an English teacher at Tascosa High School in Amarillo, Texas. I'm here to briefly discuss George Saunders' tremendous 2017 novel Lincoln in the Bardo.
  • Probably my favorite book of the last 8 months I learned about on this program, Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. But in a totally different direction Powers and Thrones by Dan Jones is a close second. Jones calls it A New History of the Middle Ages. And that it is.
  • With the heavy winds we get on the High Plains, tree damage is not uncommon. But it's hard to tell if your tree will still grow the way you'd like it to, after having branches torn off or broken during a storm. This week, we'll talk about what you can do to help your trees recover, and how to improve your chances of success.
  • I’m Traci Brimhall for the HPPR Radio Readers Book Club’s Summer Reading List.I haven’t revisited the story of Huck Finn since I read it in high school and watched my brother play the irascible Tom Sawyer in a school musical.
  • How do we come to terms with the people and events in our life that defy convention? How do we navigate the complexities of love, trauma, and grief as we narrate our own journeys?
  • Container vegetable gardens can be a good way to grow, but it's important to consider the ways that growing this way can differ from in-ground gardening...some of the same pitfalls will still apply, but perhaps not always in the same way. This week, we'll talk about what to consider when planting in containers.
  • Hi there! I’m Sara Crow, co-owner of Crow & Co. Bookstore in Hutchinson, Kansas. Because of my work, of course, I end up reading a lot of books every year, and I absolutely MUST talk about my favorite read for this summer: Tita Ramirez’s brand new book releasing July 9, Tell it to Me Singing.
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