Even if you only have a patio or balcony, you can still have home-grown potatoes. Plus, it doesn’t have to cost much, or even anything if you can get chitted or seed potatoes from friends or freecycle and you use containers and compost material that is free.
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Learn about raised bed Gardens in this free video on low maintenance gardening.
Expert: Doug Smiddy
Bio: Doug Smiddy has had an active interest in gardening as long has he can remember.
Filmmaker: Dale Fitzgerald
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Gary Heilig, Horticulture Educator from Michigan State University Extension in Ingham County demonstrates how to plant a fruit tree.
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Growing your own food is a new trend and raspberries are one of the most planted fruits. Brian gives us some tips for Planting them correctly and how many you should plant for a good crop.
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How to garden: Weeding, dead heading and staking Gardening basics
Every gardener needs a few tools, and a few tricks to keep their plants and flowers growing and blooming. Here are the basics from gardening editor Kristin Schleiter on how to maintain your garden.
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Patti Moreno, the Garden Girl, shows you techniques to get more out of limited landspace, by growing up.
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Vertical Gardening Part 1
As urban gardeners, we have a limited amount of space to grow our Vegetables and flowers. What I have done is I have employed verticle gardening.
Right here as you can see, I have a variety of different cucumber plants. Now, a cucumber is vining crop, which means that with vertical support like this one, you can train it to grow up and the fruit,
Take a look right here, can grow perfectly fine on the vine.
Different types of crops that work well in a vertical garden are watermelon and pumpkin. Let us go take a look.
Here, as you can see, my pumpkin plants are thriving. Pumpkin plants are also vining crops. Now, in the country, where you have a lot of space, you can just let this grow along the ground, but here in a city environment, we do not have all that space.
So, what I have done here is, I put together a dog kennel. This is actually really nifty. It is exactly 4 x 4 so it fits perfectly in your raise beds. And, these vines just slough on themselves eventually. You do not have to continuously train them.
Okay, so you can go vining crops on vertical supports, but there are other types of plants that also need support like my heirloom tomatoes here, this are Tiffin Mennonite tomatoes, and it grows to be a huge plant.
So what I have done is I have installed this vertical support where the plant has basically grown through the vertical support. I do not even have to train it through; it is growing through on its own.
I have my garden pea. These garden peas have pretty much attached on this vertical support on their own, and as you can see, I have a bunch of pea pods growing through. Let me show you how to build one of this, it is really super easy.
(Demo)
Great, this is nice and sturdy. And, all I have to do is unscrew it from the raise bed and move it anywhere I need it.
I am Patti the Garden Girl, thanks for watching.
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Starting your own Garden from seeds is an easy and inexpensive way to grow vegetables and flowers. Lowe’s shows you how to start seeds indoors.
First, add seed starting mix to peat pots. You can also use a seed starting flat or you can reuse old yogurt cups or egg cartons. Seed-starting mix is formulated to help build strong roots fast.
Second, use a pencil to make a hole half an inch deep in each peat pot. Then, drop one seed in each hole. Cover each seed slightly with soil.
Water each seed. Be sure to water gently to avoid washing away the seeds.
Finally, set the peat pots near a light source. Keep the temperature between 70-85 degrees to give the Seeds the best chance to germinate.
After the danger of frost outdoors has passed, you can break the peat pots apart and plant them directly in the ground. The peat pot dissolves underground.
For more information about growing Vegetables and flowers from seeds, visit http://www.Lowes.com/GrowAlong
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Grow some of your own food by starting a vegetable garden. You’ll eat better and save money.
To complete this How-To you will need:
A sunny garden spot
A wire mesh fence
Seeds or seedlings
Flowers
A soil test
A sunny garden spot
A wire mesh fence
Seeds or seedlings
Flowers
A soil test
Step 1: Decide on a garden type
Decide between a raised-bed garden or an in-ground one. Raised beds, which consist of purchased topsoil that sits within a wooden frame, are ideal if your soil is stony or sandy. The main advantage of an in-ground garden is that it needs less watering.
Tip: For an in-ground garden, test your soil to find out what nutrients it needs. Garden centers sell do-it-yourself kits, or you can arrange a test through the Cooperative Extension System, a national agricultural network. Find a nearby office on the USDA web site.
Step 2: Pick a good spot
Pick a spot that gets a lot of sun and isn’t obscured by tree or hedge shade.
Step 3: Prep the land
Prepare the land by building your raised bed or clearing and tilling a patch of land to a depth of about one foot. A 10 foot by 10 foot parcel is a good size for a beginner. For an in-ground garden, install a wire mesh fence three to four feet high to help keep out critters.
Tip: Leave the top foot of the fence unsecured so that if an animal attempts to climb it, it won’t support his weight and he won’t be able to get over it.
Step 4: Seeds versus seedlings
Decide if you want to plant seeds directly in the soil; start growing seeds in small containers, like egg cartons, and then transplant them into your garden when they take root. Or, buy seedlings from a nursery that are ready to go into the ground. If you start with seeds, you’ll wait longer to harvest your vegetables.
Tip: In colder climates, the shorter growing season makes some vegetables impossible to grow directly from seed.
Step 5: Plan your veggies
Plot out what you’d like to plant, taking into consideration what grows well in your area. Orient the rows east to west with the tallest plants on the north side so they won’t shade the shorter ones.
Step 6: Sow your seeds
Start your seeds following the instructions on the package. Plant your seedlings when it’s appropriate to do so, which depends on both the crop and your climate. Your local garden center or nearest Extension office can give you this information, or you can find it on the web.
Tip: Maximize output by planting a warm-season crop after harvesting a cool-season crop.
Step 7: Try companion Planting
Plant compatible Vegetables near each other. To find out which veggies grow better together and which are best kept far apart, type “companion planting” into a search engine.
Step 8: Put in some flowers
Plant a few flowers among your crops. They’ll attract bees, which will help pollinate your plants.
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Patti Moreno, the Garden Girl, shows you how to build an inexpensive raised garden bed. Start are Garden today.
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