Video On Container Garden Secrets

July 30, 2008

If your container plants have lost their lust for life and you want to do something about that, watch this video. Sloat Gardens is a 10-store California gardening chain operating in San Francisco, Marin, Contra Costa and San Mateo counties. Here an expert from Sloat Gardens reveals two products that are key to successful container [...]

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How To Water Black-Eyed Susans

July 28, 2008

How To Reduce Transplant Shock For A Black Eyed Susan — powered by ExpertVillage.com Although this 59 second Wonder-How-To video is entitled “How To Grow And Care For Black-Eyed Susans”, it really only tells you how to water the newly-planted established plants thoroughly. According to the Wonder-How-To spokesperson, “It’s really important to reduce transplant shock [...]

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Video On Fall Tree Planting

July 24, 2008

Here is a short (1 min, 30 sec) philosophical presentation by the handsome Gardener Allen Smith on Why We Should Plant Trees In The Fall. The practical reason is probably the least reason to plant them, according to Allen. (Trees are dormant in the fall, so planting them then gives them ample time to recover [...]

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Video On Seeding Your Yard (Lawn)

July 22, 2008

Seeding Your Yard Yardsmarts of www.yardsmarts.com give a compact little video (1 min 43 secs) that should leave you in no doubt as to how to fill in that bare patch in your lawn or establish a lawn in a bare yard. The principles are the same no matter the size area you want to [...]

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Video On Pruning A Rose Bush

July 18, 2008

Here’s the real deal on pruning a rose bush. It’s easy! At least one Nick Federoff on Revver makes it looks easy, and he takes only 1 min and 43 seconds doing so. Maybe it’s the Rasputin beard that imparts a sense of confidence in the viewer. Anyway, Nick calls roses “one of America’s most [...]

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Video On Permaculture And Green Spaces

July 16, 2008

http://www.farmersalmanac.com/video/home-garden/green-spaces If you have ever wondered what exactly permaculture is, here is your opportunity to get a potted lesson in just 4 mins, 26 secs. Farmer’s Almanac TV takes us to Seattle, Washington to visit experts from the Seattle Tilth Garden. Coordinator Kathy Dang put it well: “Permaculture (a word coined by Australian Bill Mollison) [...]

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Video On The Best Way To Plant Camellias

July 14, 2008

http://www.farmersalmanac.com/video/home-garden/gardeners-row-planting-camellias-with-benny-odum Here’s a comprehensive (longish) video (3 mins, 34 second) from Benny Odum, someone who really knows his camellias. These flowering shrubs really are “colorful, beautiful and elegant”, as Benny says — but only if you plant them right. Real estate is the answer to successful camellias: location, location, location. Ideally you should plant them [...]

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Video on Alternatives to Fertilizer

July 8, 2008

Well here’s a little piece of fertilizer wisdom from Yolanda Vanveen. In a video on the Flower Garden Basics, she argues that many alternatives to fertilizer on the market are simply fashionable and not very effective. In a video just two minutes long, Yolanda of Expert Village tosses out fishmeal, bone meal, body fluids and [...]

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Video on When Is The Compost Pile Finished?

July 4, 2008

This video is not about figuring out when the compost pile has gone (when it’s gone it’s gone) but when your compost heap is ready to be used to fertilize the garden. In 1 min, 40 secs learn how to tell when the compost is good enough to spread. The bad news is that good [...]

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Video On How To Pull Weeds

July 2, 2008

Quick-talking Doug (good name for a weed puller) at ExpertVillage teaches you in a matter of seconds (one minute and twenty-three seconds to be exact) how to pull weeds so they don’t re-emerge in a matter of days. His talk forms part of a series of videos on How to Set Up A Low Maintenance [...]

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