Hot Gardening How-Tos
How To: Use accessories to maximize space in your greenhouse
Use accessories to maximize space in your greenhouse. Never mind your budget--you can always improvise.
How To: Learn garden reflexology
Learn tips on how to do your own at-home garden reflexology. Make mosaic pathways that are good for your feet to walk on.
How To: Find solutions to deer problems in your garden
Plant certain varieties of trees and flowers in your garden to keep away deer. Check out this video to help combat your deer problems in the garden. What should you do about your roses? Watch and see!
How To: Use hydroponics for your homemade garden system
Make your own DIY Hydroponics System! This no-messing-around video is really helpful and instructive.
How To: Do garden sketching
Learn from garden artist Rene Eisenbart how to do marvelous garden sketching. Get the right tools and keep it simple.
How To: Make a lavender wreath
Check out this video to learn how to make a lavender wreath for springtime.
How To: Make an outdoor sedum wreath
Want to learn how to build a sedum wreath? Check out this video to learn what to do with moss, for starters.
How To: Make a vertical stack pot arrangement
Make a vertical stack pot arrangement with advice from Donna.
How To: Use self-watering plant containers
This video from Garden Time show a few of the different types of self-watering enclosures for plants and how to use them.
How To: Keep heucheras beautiful and healthy
This video from Garden Time shows the different types of heucheras and how to keep them full of color and not to bushy.
How To: Renew and update hanging plant baskets
This video from Garden Time tells the basics to keep your hanging baskets looking great and full of great colorful plants.
How To: Get rid of roof moss
This video from Garden Time shows how to get rid of that pesky roof moss and the products needed to get the job done.
How To: Get rid of moss on your lawn
This video from Garden Time teaches you how to get rid of that pesky lawn moss and shows you how to keep it gone.
How To: Prune your roses for more flowers
This video from Garden Time shoes how to prune your roses so they stay healthy and can produce more flowers.
How To: Divide hosta plants
This video from Garden Time shows how to divide and separate your hostas and replant them correctly.
How To: Grow and care for hellebores
This video from Garden Time talks about the certain kinds of hellebore plants and gives some information on how to properly care for them.
How To: Make dried fruit ornaments
This video from Garden Time shows you how to make dried fruit ornaments for the birds outside your home.
How To: Grow and take care of winter orchids
This video from Garden Time provides you with the knowledge to grow and take care of your own winter orchids.
How To: Use vertical gardening in the city
See how Patti Moreno, the Garden Girl, uses vertical gardening in her Urban Sustainable Living Garden.
How To: Plant fuchsias
We 'dig down deep' to get a lesson on planting hardy fuchsias. Step by step instructions will give you color every year.
How To: Preserve hydrangeas
Saving the color of summer is easy... if you have hydrangeas and follow a few simple tips.
How To: Prepare for indoor fall house plants
Time to bring in your indoor plants before the frost gets them. Here are some tips to get them ready for the transition.
How To: Propagate house plants with stem cutting
Propagation is a great way to get the most out of your house plants, by providing new plants for future use. Here we demonstrate stem cutting, for use on all climbing and trailing plants such as Devils Ivy. Propagate house plants with stem cutting.
How To: Propagate house plants using leaf lamina cuttings
Propagating can help get the best out of your house plants, by giving you new plants for future use. Here we demonstrate leaf lamina cutting, which is used on the likes of Cape Primrose and Gloxcinia. Propagate house plants using leaf lamina cuttings.
How To: Prune spring roses
Feb and early March are the perfect time for pruning your roses for bountiful blooms this summer. We have tips for helping remove dead, damaged and diseased branches.
How To: Harvest walnuts
Wonder where those delicious walnuts come from and how they get them out of their shell. We went to a harvest to check them out.
How To: Grow shrooms
Don't overlook the mycodome, it can grow some robust shrooms. This video shows you how.
How To: Make a tabletop biosphere
In this video, Bre Pettis from MAKE magazine will show you how to make a tabletop biosphere. You need a jar, aquatic plants, shrimp, amphipods, dechlorination chemicals, and chicled salt.
How To: Build a hydroponic garden
This video is an outline of the equipment and steps necessary to build your own DIY hydroponic garden.
How To: Compost organically at home
This how-to video by the nonprofit group Kitchen Gardeners International shows you step-by-step instructions for successful organic composting.
How To: Remove okra stalks from a vegetable garden
Removing Okra stalks from you vegetable garden can be quite difficult. Here is the easy way to do it.
How To: Collect okra seeds from your garden
How to collect/harvest okra seeds from you garden.
How To: Create an indoor garden
Patti, the Garden Girl, shows you how to build your own seed starting system in this video series. This system would cost twice as much to buy already made. It is simple and very effective.
How To: Propagate a holiday cactus
Watch this demonstration on propagating a holiday cactus.
How To: Propagate through leaf cutting
Watch this video to learn how to propagate carnivorous plants through leaf cutting.
How To: Get rid of indoor gnats
Indoor gnats, which are also known as fungus gnats, are not only annoying. Their larvae feed on plant stems and roots and can cause considerable damage to seedlings and small plants. Luckily, you can get rid of these obnoxious little pests without using harsh chemicals.
How To: Plant tulips
Learn how to plant tulip bulbs correctly and protect them from critters. A garden expert gives detailed instructions.
How To: Keep cut flowers fresh
The key to keeping fresh cut flowers perky for a week or more without floral preservatives (which contain biocides that kill bacteria and fungus) is to keep the water fresh and the stems free of air pockets so they can continue to draw up water.
How To: Make a terrarium
Terrariums are mini indoor gardens that are perfect for people who want to decorate their home or office with houseplants, but don't have a lot of time to care for them. I love them because I can create a desert themed one with cacti and succulents or make a tropical themed one filled with plants like African violets and ferns.
How To: Create seed-starting pots or peat pots from newspapers
Instead of buying expensive peat pots to plant your seeds in, make these spiffy planting pots by rolling recycled newspaper around a glass or jar. The finished pots are sturdy and will break down quickly once they've been planted in the soil.