Video On How To Arrange Drip Irrigation In A Raised Bed

May 24, 2009

Somewhere down in Texas one winter, a man looked at the camera to tell us about the two types of irrigation you can use for your raised garden bed. According to the man with the winter grass stretching out behind him, compliments of ExpertVillage and YouTube, you can have Precision Button Irrigation (for directing water [...]

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Video On How To Get Beautiful Plants No Matter What The Season

May 21, 2009

Find more DIY videos Here’s a video with a weird provenance. It features a lady in Trono Zoo, Canada telling us how to fling together a flower container in a basket that will last all spring and summer long. Thing is, the video was posted on LiveVideopedia by someone called Shaktee in Israel. The internet [...]

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Video On Tips For Growing Tomatoes

May 18, 2009

At 40 seconds, this little tomato plant selection guide is short and sweet. You get two types of tomato plant: vine and bush. Some are big, some are small. Consider the size area available before buying a tomato plant. If you have very little space, consider choosing cherry tomatoes. Above all, ask the experts at [...]

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Video On Gardening For Survivalists

May 14, 2009

Seeing a couple of survivalists and their bad old truck somewhere way out in the country where they have cultivated squashes and zucchinis raises all sorts of questions. If these people had to live off the land, why would they want to live at all? They seem to live such tortured, suspicious lives as it [...]

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Video On Plants From Seed

May 11, 2009

Melinda Myers, a.k.a. The Plant Doctor (for Birds and Blooms magazine) makes successful seed sowing look easy. As Melinda says, growing plants from seeds is a great opportunity to try new and unique varieties that aren’t available at the garden center. But you need to sow the seeds properly. Melinda observes (rightly in my case) [...]

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Video On How To Sharpen A Lawnmower Blade

May 7, 2009

Here’s an optimistic video for those whose lawnmower blades are suspected to be blunt. Fred Olson, of Olson’s Saw Shop in Eugene, Oregon, who has been sharpening blades for 30 years, shows us how. The video blurb says “sharpening lawn mower blades will make cutting your yard easy and give better results. Learn how to [...]

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Video On The Top Five Garden Tools

May 4, 2009

Melinda Myers, a.k.a. The Plant Doctor (for Birds and Blooms Magazine), was asked for her choice of 5 Must-Have Garden Tools. She came up with the following: 1. Bypass pruners (the small hand-type) 2. Loppers (these are long pruners for reaching high branches) 3. Neverdull scissors (great for dead-heading plants) 4. Cast aluminum trowel (never [...]

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Video On Planting Onions And Carrots

May 4, 2009

Somewhere in England there is an attractive woman called Claire who has an allotment and an insatiable desire to tell us what she grows there and how she goes about it. In this — Part 9 in the Claire’s Allotment series — Claire takes 5 minutes to show us how to avoid carrot fly in [...]

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Video On How To Grow Carrots

April 30, 2009

Eric of www.gardenfork.tv fame is here to teach us about growing carrots but, as usual, it’s a bit of a cookie affair involving two labradors, a frisbee and the Invisible Witch of the Woods who I would REALLY love to see one day. Eric does not claim to be any kind of carrot farmer or [...]

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Video On Controlling Snails

April 27, 2009

No, this is NOT a video about snails that are really controlling, insisting that you take out the trash and be in by a certain time and stuff like that. To the contrary. This is an overview of the variety of measures available to discourage snails and slugs in your garden by killing them. Sadly, [...]

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