Charlie Nardozzi
Host, Connecticut Garden JournalCharlie Nardozzi is a regional Emmy® Award winning garden writer, speaker, radio, and television personality. He has worked for more than 30 years bringing expert information to home gardeners.
Charlie hosts Connecticut Garden Journal on WNPR, All Things Gardening on Vermont Public Radio and has hosted New England Gardening with Charlie NardozziTV specials on CT Public.
Charlie delights in making gardening information simple and accessible to everyone. His love of the natural world also makes him an exciting public speaker and presenter. He has spoken, in-person and virtually, at national venues such as the Northwest Flower Show, Philadelphia Flower Show, San Francisco Flower and Garden Show, Master Gardener conferences, and trade shows. Regionally, Charlie has spoken at venues such as the Connecticut Horticultural Society, University of Connecticut Master Gardener Conference, Connecticut Flower and Garden Show and at many garden clubs throughout the state. He also leads international garden tours.
Charlie is a native of Waterbury, Connecticut and has been gardening in New England his whole life. Learn more about him at gardeningwithcharlie.com.
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Connecticut Garden Journal: While winter roars outside, grow lion’s mane and oyster mushrooms insideWant easy access to gourmet mushrooms? Grow them indoors with mushroom kits. There are now oyster, lion's mane, wine cap and shiitake mushroom-growing kits you can buy online. -
Drumroll please. . .after researching the new catalogues and websites of a few of my favorite national seed companies, I have compiled my 2024 list of new vegetables to grow. Here we go! -
January is time to go through all my old seeds, see what I need to replace and try some new varieties. This year let's keep our seed purchases local. There are vegetable and flower seed houses based in Connecticut offering a nice variety of seed to purchase. I'll share a few. -
So you decorated the house with gorgeous poinsettias or you were gifted a festive Christmas cactus or amaryllis. The holidays are over. Now what? -
Ecological or regenerative gardening focuses on the whole yard, including the soil, to create a habitat that's good for birds, wildlife and humans. -
Containers make it easy to plant a live Christmas tree in your yard once the holidays are over. It's a great tradition where you can grow a forest of holiday trees over time. -
The USDA Hardiness zone map was last updated in 2012 and now they have a new 2023 version. As you might expect with global warming, the hardiness zones have shifted. -
If you have dormant amaryllis bulbs in storage, now is the time to move them into a sunny, cool room. -
You can pot up a single, dramatic succulent such as an aloe vera or jade plant as a centerpiece for the holidays. -
Raised bed gardening is a great way to maximize your veggie and flower yields, contain gardens in a small space and define the garden so kids and pets don't run through it. Build your structures now for spring planting.
