HeyJaredThe Daily Grateful with Michael Crose
Join Michael Crose on The Daily Grateful, where self-help meets the moments that matter most. Each episode blends practical wisdom for personal growth with thoughtful conversations about the topics shaping our world right now.
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Prune or Perish (opens the original)
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Garden Geek Michael Crose returns for a gloriously unfiltered fall shrub tutorial that spirals into a scam-call showdown, a Beatles-vs-Beach-Boys debate, and his son Zack's one-track podocarpus obsession. Underneath the chaos is real advice: how to evaluate shrubs for stragglers, pests, and disease before you prune; why he ditches mulch entirely, insisting it locks nutrients away from roots; a homemade dish-soap trick for stubborn dry soil; and his case for deep, infrequent watering over daily h
Soil Snake Oil (opens the original)
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Garden Geek host Michael Crose takes aim at the flood of "not-quite-fertilizer" products marketed to homeowners — humic acid amendments, kelp extracts, biochar, and other soil boosters that legally can't be labeled fertilizer because, well, they aren't. Michael shares a cautionary tale from his organic lawn care days in the '80s, when he sank serious money into a Texas company's "miracle" products, only to discover via a truck driver's MSDS sheets that the liquid "fertilizer" was just molasses,
Ficus Feelings: Why Your Houseplants Are Basically Divas (opens the original)
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In this episode of Ask the Garden Geek , Michael Crosedives into the wonderfully dramatic world of houseplants — and trust him,they're more temperamental than your ex. Michael shares decades of hard-wonwisdom, starting with the golden rule: light matters more than water, and it'sthe reason most houseplant deaths happen in the first place. Get ready for the legendary saga of the ficus benjamina — aplant so sensitive it'll drop every leaf just because you moved it six inchesto the left. Michael re
Title: Fall Shrub Care 101: Pruning, Feeding & Planting Tips (opens the original)
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In this episode of Ask the Garden Geek, Michael Crose walks you through everything your shrubs need as summer turns to fall. He covers how to properly evaluate your shrubbery — checking for insect damage, disease, dieback, and plants that have outgrown their space — before you ever pick up the pruning shears. Michael shares his approach to pruning (an art form, in his opinion), why he skips mulch entirely to keep micronutrients available to plants, and his method for training shrubs to develop d
What is fertilizer? (opens the original)
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Beyond the big three, Michael dives into crucial secondary micronutrients like calcium for cell walls, magnesium, sulfur, and iron. Drawing from personal anecdotes—from growing high-calcium tomatoes for his daughter to recovering his own health with vital minerals—he highlights how trace elements make all the difference for plant vitality. Plus, get his honest take on classic products like Super Thrive!
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