How To: Make paper pots
Dave from Dave's Garden explains how to make paper pots for young plants.
Dave from Dave's Garden explains how to make paper pots for young plants.
In this DIY guide from the folks at Gardenfork.tv, we learn how to construct a hoop house or cold frame to extend the gardening season. It's easy! So easy, in fact, that this gardener's guide can present a complete overview in about 9 minutes. For all of the details, and to get started making your own hoop houses and cold frames, take a look.
Moss can be a beautiful part of natures, but it can also wreak havoc on your roof shingles or garden plants and rocks. If you've got a moss problem, watch this video for some easy ways you can solve them.
Moths are usually pretty harmless, but the Gypsy Moth is an exception. They can defoliate an area with astonishing speed, and if you see them in your garden you need to take action immediately. Watch this video to find out how.
Skunks aren't popular anywhere, and no one wants to risk getting sprayed by one. You can keep skunks at bay by using garbage cans with tight-fitting lids, setting up cage traps and installing floodlights and a sprinkler system in your garden.
A swarm of locusts might be a biblical plague, but they really can't hurt people directly. They can destroy your farm or garden in no time though, so watch this video for tips of protecting your garden or farm from a swarm of locusts.
This video offers a lesson in how to plan and lay out a small container garden for maximum yield. It's easy! So easy, in fact, that this gardener's guide can present a complete overview of the process in just under five and a half minutes' time. For more information, including step-by-step instructions, watch this video guide.
In this next gardening tutorial, you're going to find out how to plant your very own potatoes from scratch. It's a great way to save money and make sure that you a veggie that isn't covered in any sort of chemical.
If you live in a small apartment or condo unit, you have a very small amount of space to grow or enjoy plants. If you're looking for a good solution to adding some green to a balcony or window seal, this video may be for you. In this tutorial, you'll find out how to easily make a hydroponic garden using a pvc pipe. Check it out, good luck, and enjoy!
Interested in planting potatoes? Start a self-sustaining garden full of veggies you can take from your garden, straight to your dinner plate. Plant potatoes 8 inches apart and about 4 inches deep. When the plants grow about 6 to 8 inches tall, start to hill up the sides. Learn more about how to plant potatoes yourself from this video presented by Homestead Acres.
Marigolds are a beautiful addition to any garden and a pleasure to to plant. Plant your own marigolds by harvesting marigold seeds with help from Garden of Imagination. Learn everything you need to know about harvesting these seeds right here.
While ready-to-go seedlings have their place, it's also useful (and considerably cheaper) to know how to start your own seeds, which is where this free gardening tutorial comes in: with it, you'll learn how to germinate your own seeds for planting in your garden. Specifically, this tutorial looks at how to start tomato seeds.
Pruning tomatoes, though not required, will create stronger vines, which produce larger, fuller tomatoes during the growing season. Trim back a tomato plant in the winter with instructions from a sustainable gardener in this free video on gardening. No need to go crazy, even trimming the plant down by a third will give you a bigger, better tomato. Follow along with the tips in this gardening video and learn how to prune a tomato plant.
P. Allen Smith talks with Shawn Hatley of Brae Water about the rain water harvesting system at the Garden Home Retreat. Begin by digging a very large hole. Simple rain tanks conveniently fit into the large dugout. This instructional landscaping video to save up to half a million gallons of water in a single year. Collecting rain water is a cost efficient way to save water and energy while maintaining your garden.
In this video gardening tutorial, you'll find step-by-step instructions for cloning any plant from a clipping (or "cutting"). Plant propagation is very simple and can save you a lot of money in the long run. To learn more about the cloning process, watch this cloning how-to. (NB: Do NOT, as the video suggests, put freshly cloned plants in direct sunlight while in a hot house or you will have steamed plants!)
Wondering how to get started with hydroponic gardening? In this video tutorial, you'll find step-by-step instructions on how to build a complete hydroponic system inside of a five-gallon bucket (with an optional fogger attachment) as well as tips for clone planting. Start gardening hydroponically with this how-to.
Poison ivy is a real pain. And it is especially bad to have poison ivy in your garden. Learn how to identify and remove poison ivy with little to no risk to your skin with this gardening tutorial. Remember to be careful and wear long pants and gloves when handling poison ivy
Garden benches and planters can be quite expensive. In this instructiona video, Do It Yourself magazine's Jeni Wright shows you how to make an all-in-one planter bench. For this garden project, you will need the following: two sturdy pots, two plants and a cedar 1 by 4.
Tim Carter shows you how to make an arbor from a photograph in a catalog. His tips will enable you to create your own garden arbor plans.
Lean how to play "Truly Madly Deeply" by Savage Garden original song and covered by Cascada on the guitar.
This video helps those of you who live in colder climates take care of your garden during the fall, specifically October.
If your garden needs mulch, here's a peachy-keen new idea: a mulch made of peach pits! Michael Glassman shows how Pits in Pieces™ benefits plants while repelling pests.
To save energy, protect your garden, and keep warm during the winter follow these simple tips to winterize your home.
This ReadyMade video explains how to build a raised bed garden for your home to block out that ugly garage or naked neighbor.
Raise your glass to an extraordinary garden! Landscape designer Michael Glassman demonstrates how the use of glass mulch around plants, rocks, or fountains elevates an ordinary garden into a masterful work of art.
Lars discusses how to use the hori hori knife within your garden. Video gives a brief history on the knife and how it can be applied to home gardening techniques.
Fresh veggies are the tastiest way to eat right. They are delicious, as fresh as can be, nutritious and best of all.. free! In addition to all of that, you get the satisfaction of growing your dinner all by yourself. In this tutorial, learn how to plant four vegetables that are so easy anyone can grow them. Even the most inexperienced gardener will be able to make these four veggies grow.
More likely than not this holiday season you'll either be buying a poinsettia plant or will receive one as a hostess present. Rather than letting yours wither away and die as you forget repeatedly that it may need a little water to survive, check out this gardening tip video to learn how to take care of them year round.
Check out this landscaping video tutorial to see how to install a drip irrigation watering system. You'll need this if you want to keep your garden looking great. You will have to poke a hole in the pipe for every shrub. Then, you'll need to install a coupler. This drip irrigation installation is explained in simple English by Sprinkler Daddy's Sean Stefan.
If you live somewhere with harsh winters, you know that they can be hell on your garden and the flower pots therein. Watch this video for tips on protecting different kinds of flower pots from the elements during the winter.
The best way to recycle is to reuse trash items as new, useful ones in your own home. If you enjoy gardening, watch this video to learn how to turn an old plastic milk or juice bottle into a cute plastic watering can for your plants.
Pruning is a very important part of gardening that makes sure plants get nutrition, stay away from disease, and promotes continuous growth.
Planting potatoes is a great way to test the power of your green finger. It's a fairly easy vegetable to grow and the results are beautiful and delicious potatoes that can be used with any great meal. So in this helpful video tutorial, you'll find out what you need to do in order to plant potatoes in your yard. Good luck and enjoy!
When it comes to taking care of plants, specifically flowers, pruning is an important task that must done be done. This will help ensure that the plant gets the right nutrients needed and prevents any kind of decay or disease from killing it. In this video tutorial, you'll find out how to prune roses in your garden to help ensure they last for a long time. Enjoy!
This how to video is brought to you by Handy Magazine. The Handyman Club of American provides reviews and how to's on a variety of home & garden project. This video covers what you need to know to use a wet saw to cut tile.
Need an easy, efficient and inexpensive way to layout your garden beds? This how to video shows you how to use regular old kitchen flour and paint string to mark layout lines. Drawing layout lines with flour comes in handy when you run out of chalk and don't have time to run to the store.
Adding compost to your garden soil increases its nutrient content and overall fertility. Watch this video to learn easy and effective methods of adding compost to soil.
this is a step by step DIY tutorial of how to change the fuel filter on a garden trimmer or weed wacker.
This is a step by step DIY tutorial of how to restring a garden trimmer head.
This is a step by step tutorial of how to grease the head on your garden trimmer or weed wacker.