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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Earwigs can climb up your flowers or veggies and feed on the foliage, but they're also likely to eat insects, dead plants and table scraps, too. The pincers look daunting, but they're mostly used as defense against attacks from other insects. -
Pick-your-own strawberry farms are great, but what's even more fun is growing strawberries yourself. Strawberries are one of the easiest fruits to grow and there are types for every garden. -
Growing basil is easy, if you remember a few qualities of this plant. -
Dahlias start out slowly in our cool spring soils, but pick up speed in summer. By August, whether you grow the small, low growing types or the large dinner plate dahlias, they all put on quite a flower show. -
Wondering what to grow around perennials and under trees and shrubs in a shady area? I've got two options, but you'll need to know how to keep them from growing too aggressively. -
Many gardeners are familiar with raised vegetable beds, but you can also plant annual and perennial flowers, herbs, berry bushes and even small trees in raised beds. -
Modern varieties of blackberries are disease free, produce fruit in summer and fall and some have thornless canes. -
There are some newer daylily types with better flowering habits. And those flowers: they're edible and delicious in salads or stuffed like squash blossoms. -
Beets aren't just those red ball-shaped roots in grocery stores. Here are a few varieties that are easy to grow and delicious to eat. -
I often field questions for what to plant in a mossy, shady spot under trees. My answer is moss.
