Video On A Visit to An Organic Vegetable Garden

June 30, 2008

Organic Vegetable Gardening – Click here for more blooper videos A 208 year old Invisible Gardener from Malibu, California (that’s how it’s billed, folks) takes us into an organic vegetable garden to look at a raised vegetable beds. It’s quite a skill making one. You need timber sides, two layers of 1/4 inch chicken wire [...]

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Video on How to Build a Compost Pile

June 26, 2008

This is a couple of minutes well-spent with an anonymous person from Expert Village who says: “Whether you garden or you don’t garden, you should make compost. It is a great thing to do and removes your compost from the waste stream.” Okay. She recommends a certain type of composter. It’s like a huge plastic [...]

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Video on How To Know When The Organic Compost In Your Bin Is Ready

June 25, 2008

A Garden and Home expert from ExpertVillage.com tells us clearly and concisely this important information as part of a larger section on Learning Organic Garden Composting Online. The bottom line is that compost takes a long time to develop, about six months to two years, depending on the carbon/nitrogen ratio and how often you turn [...]

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Video On Germinating Seeds

June 10, 2008

Here is a professionally produced short video (48 seconds) that reveals interesting information to help you germinate seeds successfully. First, you should work very cleanly. Wear gloves when working with seeds, and make sure your container is spotless, too. Second, soak the seeds for 24 to 48 hours in clean water in a clean glass [...]

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Video Explaining A Safe, Natural Ant Killer

March 28, 2008

Cheap & Safe Ant Killer In just 52 seconds, Jeff and Heather Lacroix of Louisiana introduce you to a new method of killling ants. It is safe for your plants and safe for other critters too – no poisons to be picked up by animals and children. The way you get rid of an anthill [...]

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Video on using Terracotta Pots for Container Gardening

March 24, 2008

Find more how to and instructional videos on 5min.com TheGardener talks in his chummy style for 2 mins 21 seconds about terra cotta pots, or rather how to manage them. While terracotta pots really “look the business” according to TheGardener, they tend to dry out in summer so you need to line them with a [...]

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Video on How To Make Bokashi

March 18, 2008

If, like me, you want to believe that throwing potato peelings into the hedge is the same as feeding the shrubbery, then you will be chastened by this introduction to bokashi. Bokashi is the stuff that transforms kitchen waste into useful compost. Neal Foley is the Podchef and in this video of roughly 6 minutes [...]

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Video on How To Keep Cut Flowers Longer

March 14, 2008

Watch more DIY videos on 5min.com David Epstein of GrowingWisdom.com fame interviews softly-spoken Susan Lane of Home Depot to get tips on how to get the most out of your cut flowers from the garden or florist. Granted, it’s a vast subject full of the pitfalls of generalizing, but the 2.46 min video pretty much [...]

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Video on How To Prune Roses

March 10, 2008

Watch more DIY videos on 5min.com It’s David Epstein of GrowingWisdom.com fame again,this time giving a short (2 min 25 sec) springtime brief on how to prune a rose bush. Here is a useful quick lesson in something that is reputed to be difficult but is really quite easy. Tools are important: David uses gloves [...]

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Video on Choosing Annual Flowers

January 3, 2008

‘ This video on “Choosing Annual Flowers” is full of more great tips from David Epstein of Growing Wisdom. This man really is full of lots of useful gardening knowledge and this video is certainly no exception. If you watch this video, you will find it to an excellent resource and of good production quality. [...]

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