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How To: Pick plants and trees at a nursery
How to pick plants and trees at a nursery
How To: Fertilize Aquatics
Video: . this video will show you how to make organic fertilizer balls for aquatic gardening.
How To: Easily plant potatoes in your garden
In this next gardening tutorial, you're going to find out how to plant your very own potatoes from scratch. It's a great way to save money and make sure that you a veggie that isn't covered in any sort of chemical.
How To: Process southwestern desert plants for eating
In this video, Ruth Greenhouse teaches us how to process native plants for eating. The Mesquite desert plant is a great fuel as well as good for beans in the summer months. One way to use the beans is to pick the dry beans when they are ripe (they will be tan) and you can grind the pod into a fine powder, which will make a flour that is healthy. You can mix this flour with water and it can be a healthy beverage. It can also be added to cookies and breads to make them sweeter. Another plant is...
How To: Grow a sustainable garden
The EcoGarden is designed to give back to nature and show people how easy it is to go green in their own backyard. All you need to remember is to plant, feed and protect to grow your own sustainable garden. This how to video teaches you how to care for your beautiful and eco friendly garden.
How To: Get more color in the garden
Danny Lipford shows how to grow a more colorful flower garden in early spring when there is not a lot of overall growth. He displays how he plants tulips and daffodils in the fall so that they bloom in the spring. He digs a troth about 6 feet long and 6 inches deep. After sprinkling bulb food in the troth, Lipford plants the tulip and daffodil bulbs, arranging them so each uniquely appears every other bulb. Lipford's assistant advises that he re-plants the tulips every year, since while they ...
How To: Create potting soil for cacti and succulents
This video teaches you how to create the perfect potting soil for your cacti or succulents. A blend for you beautiful pants to grow strong and healthy.
How To: Take care of a cold climate garden in the fall
This video helps those of you who live in colder climates take care of your garden during the fall, specifically October.
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: Water Evergreens in the fall
First of all, he explains that evergreens will have problems if you don't water them late enough into the season. He introduces Ken Mayer who compares two types of evergreens. He shows a tree which has lost its coloration and explains that that tree lost water over the winter. Its roots have been frozen and if the roots are frozen the water cannot circulate where it is needed. When the spring comes, the plant will need water and it will not be able to be supplied with it. It then gives tips o...
How To: Create a garden sconce
Looking for a decorative garden wall hanging? Why not make one yourself?
How To: Clean up your vegetable garden
Dave helps you prepare your vegetable garden for the winter and has some suggestions for rescuing those remaining green tomatoes.
How To: Use a row cover to protect your garden easily
If you want to protect your garden from pests, the sun, or even the harsh winter months, then applying a row cover is a great idea.
How To: Protect houseplants from bugs when you're away
Planning to be out of the house for an extended period of time? Dave tells you how to ensure that your houseplants survive your absence.
How To: Plant a ceanothis flower
Monty Don plants up a ceonuthus, sharing his tips for good drainage and adding extra energy for the plant roots.
How To: Plant up an ornamental flower container
Monty Don demonstrates how to plant up and age a stone container to create a formal garden display. Follow these Gardeners' World step-by-step guides to garden projects from the BBC. These lovely tutorials on gardening will grow your green thumb and make your gardens grow healthful plants. Plant up an ornamental flower container.
How To: Buy the perfect garden soil mix
When you're planting new plants it is imperative you have the ideal soil. In some cases this means buying garden soil mix. In this how to video, Adam Richards shows us what type of garden soil mix to buy and what it's made of. Buy the perfect garden soil mix.
How To: Keep cut flowers longer
Dave visits with Susan Lane to find out how to care for cut flowers from a florist.
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: 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: Control weeds in garden beds and pathways
Weeds are plants that are growing where they’re not wanted. They out-compete other plants for nutrients and can spoil the look of your garden. Weeds can take any form and can vary depending on where they grow.
How To: Collect seeds in the fall for summer gardening
In this tutorial, we learn how to collect seeds with Barb Pearson. Where your flowers have formed is where your seed will form. It's best to collect seeds when the seed is dry, after the dew has dried off them in the afternoon. The seeds will be ripe when the pods have begun to open. Seed pods that are still green aren't ready to be collected yet. Pods are ready when they come off the vine easily. The best way to store the seeds is in a paper bag with a label on the outside. You can always cl...
News: The Wonder of Plants
Have you seen all the adorable miniature garden ideas? Containers of some sort (wood boxes, planters, drawers, wheel barrows, bird baths…) hold a little scene full of tiny living plants along with little adornments like garden benches, hardscapes and paths. They are absolutely enchanting for all ages and how fun to shop the house and find special little things to decorate your tiny garden whether indoors or out. Not only can you plant real, live tiny plants in your garden. Consider little suc...
How To: Stake single stemmed flowers
Staking keeps your garden beautiful by keeping mature flowers from flopping under their own weight. Garden designer and author Tracy DiSabato-Aust will show you how to stake tall, slender flowers. Stake single stemmed flowers.
How To: Take an accurate soil sample and test for fertility
In order to accurately test a soil sample for fertility, the first thing that you will have to do is find soil that is representative of the entire area. Also, don't test the soil near a fence. The sample shouldn't be deeper than 6". Scoop up some soil samples. You can use a trowel. Take samples from several areas. Set it aside for a few days, in order to let it dry.
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