How To: Pick tulips
Sarah Raven demonstrates the most effective method for picking tulips from the garden to ensure the best display indoors, without inhibiting next year's growth.
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How To: Make bamboo plant supports
Gardeners' World is brought to you by the BBC. Search Gardeners' World on WonderHowTo for more videos that give practical gardening advice from experts. In this video, learn how to make bamboo supports. Make bamboo plant supports.
How To: Build an alpine sandbox
Watch Monty Don planting up a sandbox for displaying alpine plants, in our step-by-step video project - with tips for keeping plants cool, and retaining moisture.
How To: Make an alpine path and gravel bed
Follow Monty's step-by-step video guide to laying an alpine garden path and making alpine beds using membrane and gravel.
How To: Plant a bare root plant
Sarah Raven demonstrates how to plant a bare-root tree or shrub in a pot, before planting out in its permanent border position.
How To: Plant a fig tree
Monty Don demonstrates how to plant a fig tree by lining a hole with paving slabs to curtail the roots and stimulate fruit production.
How To: Plant a rose to avoid root rock and sucker growth
Sarah Raven demonstrates the best method for planting a rose to avoid root rock and sucker growth. 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 a rose to avoid root rock and sucker growth.
How To: Plant tree ferns
Follow Monty and Joe's simple step-by-step video advice to planting up the tree fern, Dicksonia Antarctica.
How To: Plant yew hedge
Watch Monty Don's video demonstration of how to plant a yew hedge, with advice on drainage, planting distances and mulching.
How To: Plant dahlia tubers in tray gardens
Sarah Raven demonstrates how to plant up dahlia tubers in trays indoors, to ensure a greater number of cuttings in summer.
How To: Plant herbs into a window box
Carol Klein demonstrates how to plant culinary herbs in a window box, with tips on what to plant, drainage, and companion plants to keep garden pests at bay.
How To: Plant shallots in a container garden
Monty Don demonstrates how to plant heritage variety shallots in a container, offering advice on drainage and planting depths.
How To: Prune and propogate dogwood trees
Joe Swift demonstrates how to prune and take hardwood cuttings from dogwoods. 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. Prune and propogate dogwood trees.
How To: Prune honeysuckle plants in the garden
Joe Swift demonstrates how to prune back honeysuckle, in the cottage garden at Berryfields. 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. Prune honeysuckle plants in the garden.
How To: Prune a shrub roses
Follow Monty Don's video advice on pruning shrub roses, including techniques that will keep fungal infection and viruses at bay, while encouraging flowering stems.
How To: Prune a viburnum plant, remove sideshoots
Chris Beardshaw demonstrates how to prune an old viburnum, removing sideshoots and woody growth to reinvigorate the plant and encourage flowering.
News: What Happens When You Smash the Essence of Dynamite With a Hammer?
Nitroglycerin, otherwise known as the explosive essence of dynamite, is so sensitive AND powerfully explosive that when hit with a hammer, it creates "a supersonic shockwave and a flash of light almost too fast to film, even with the latest specialist cameras". In the blink of an eye (literally) extreme detonation occurs. Shooting super slo-mo is absolutely necessary (600x slower, to be exact).
News: Vortex Cannon Demolishes House
Jem Stansfield from BBC's Bang Goes the Theory has "put scientific theory to the test" with his Vortex Cannon. Filmed at 1300-fps, you can see the cannon knock down three different houses made of straw, stick, and brick with an explosive vortex ring.
How To: Care for cannas
Learn how to care for canna plants with Carol Klein's comprehensive video guide covering planting, overwintering, and dealing with viruses such as canna yellow mottle, and bean yellow mosaic.
How To: Plant train and prune passion flowers in a garden
Follow Joe Swift's video guide to planting, training and pruning passion flowers. 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 train and prune passion flowers in a garden.
How To: Plant rambling roses beneath trees
Chris Beardshaw demonstrates how to plant a rambling rose, offering tips on how to select the perfect rose, pruning and training.
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 out leeks in a container garden
Monty Don demonstrates how to plant out leeks without damaging their roots, offering advice on planting depths and watering frequency.
How To: Repot a jasmine plant
Monty Don offers video guidance on repotting a star jasmine, with advice on retaining moisture and limiting root disturbance.
How To: Sow sweet peas from seed
Learn how to grow sweet pea plants from seed with Monty Don's step-by-step video advice. 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. Sow sweet peas from seed.
How To: Sow tomato seeds in coir pellets
Sarah Raven offers advice on which tomato varieties to grow, and demonstrates how to sow tomato seeds in coir pellets.
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.
News: Polar Bears Play Bloody Game of Soccer With Snowball Spycam
Blizzard Cam, a 40 mph mobile spycam on skis, spies on a group of adorable polar bears (um, minus the blood stained faces) as they devour a pile of remains. Operated remotely, Snowball Cam is released from the Blizzard if scientists detect the bears may attack the device. The decoy can roll across most terrains (even up hill), and easily distracts the bears into a game of soccer. From a BBC TV program on polar bears.
News: Stunningly Beautiful Slo-mo Surfer
BBC captured jaw-dropping HD super slow motion footage of surfer Dylan Longbottom in a 12 foot monster barrel.
How To: Prevent aphids in your garden
Learn environmentally friendly methods for controlling aphids, and other garden pests with Monty's guide to organic insecticides and how they work. Monty also talks you through how to make your own, organic pesticide.
How To: Grow chillies from seeds
Chilli plants will thrive on a sunny window sill or in a greenhouse. They have a long cropping season, so you could still be harvesting fresh chillies in December. You will need just two small pots to sow your chilli seeds; use a good quality seed compost and keep them in a bright place to ensure they germinate.
How To: Grow herbs peppermint & thyme in a container
Monty Don shows how to plant the herbs, peppermint and thyme in pots, with advice on watering, drainage and when to prune.
How To: Grow salad lettuce from seeds
Salad leaves can be grown on a cut-and-come-again basis; harvesting the larger leaves by cutting them, allowing the smaller leaves to grow for a second crop. If you make successional sowings of seeds every three weeks, you will have a constant supply of salad throughout the year. You can sow seeds indoors from March, but from late-May you should be able to sow seeds directly into pots outside.
How To: Grow tomatoes in grow bags and beds
Sarah Raven plants four varieties of tomato in a bed in the Berryfields greenhouse, explaining how to stake and pinch out sideshoots from plants.
How To: Grow tomatoes in a pots and grow bags
Monty Don demonstrates how to plant tomatoes in grow bags and pots in the greenhouse at Berryfields, including advice on getting the most from grow bags, and when to put tomato plants outside.
How To: Hoe effectively
Gardeners' World is brought to you by the BBC. Search Gardeners' World on WonderHowTo for more videos that give practical gardening advice from experts. In this video, learn how to how effectively.
How To: Lay a path in your garden
Monty Don demonstrates how to lay slabs on sand and cement with the aid of a spirit level and a grid of pegs, to create a path.
How To: Grow a kiwi plant
Watch Monty's video guide to planting a kiwi plant, ideal for fast-growing extensive coverage of a tree or arbour, and follow his practical tips on positioning for best effect.
How To: Plant up a traditional hanging basket
Create impact with your hanging baskets by following Rachel de Thame's comprehensive guide to planting up a traditional hanging basket, with advice on choosing and lining your container and tips on selecting and positioning your plants.
How To: Rotate vegetable crops in your garden
Discover the theory behind crop rotation, with Monty's back-to-basics video advice to giving optimum growing conditions for vegetable groups such as potatoes, legumes (beans, peas etc), brassicas (cabbages, cauliflowers, radishes), root vegetables (carrots, parsnips).