Growing A Garden

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John from www.growingyourgreens.com goes on a field trip to the Orange County Great Park to share with you many different examples of how they are showing you can grow food at home. In this episode, you will see many different examples of growing food in different ways, such as: A Square Foot Raised Bed Garden, an Elevated Easy Access Raised Bed Garden, Vertical Tower Garden, Hay Bale Garden, Container Gardening, and even food growing in a wheelbarrow. After watching this episode, you will know many of the different ways you can grow a vegetable garden today. .

John from www.growingyourgreens.com visits Jason who is growing in self watering containers in the Las Vegas Desert. Watch this video to learn how to make your own self watering containers and learn which variety of tomato grows best in the desert climate. Also learn about reflective mulch aka mylar film.

Click here: www.herbinfosite.com. A brief overview of how to plant a successful herb garden. The video covers the three types of herbs; annuals, perennials and biennials and the ideal planting conditions to insure bumper crop of delicious herbs. Visit my youtube channel here www.youtube.com HowStuffWorks “How to Grow an Herb Garden: Tips and Guidelines”Here are some smart tips for growing herbs, like how to improve the soil, fertilize, and design knot gardens. www.howstuffworks.com/how-to-grow-an-herb-garden.htm Herb GardeningInformation on herb gardening. Photos and step by step processes… very easy … I prefer to plant the seed where it is to grow directly to -the garden in … www.backyardgardener.com/herb/index.html The Culinary Herb Garden:Planting, Maintaining and Using Culinary …Quick, plant an Herb Garden! Lucky for you, this is fun and exciting to do. It is more fun now than it has ever been. Life in today’s culinary herb garden … www.mountainvalleygrowers.com/culinaryherbgarden.htm Herb Gardening – Planning and Planting an Herb GardenHerbs are some of the easiest plants to grow and they grow effusively. Most require little maintenance, unless you have the notion of planting a tidy … gardening.about.com/…/herbsspecificplants1/…/Herb_Gardens.htm — Growing an Herb Garden – West Virginia UniversityOffers information for beginning herb gardeners on history, cultivation, harvesting, and uses of herbs www.wvu.edu/~agexten/hortcult/herbs/ne208hrb.htm (herb …

Hi I’m Doug Green from www.douggreensgarden.con and I want to show you how to build raised garden beds with a minimum of fuss and muss. Carpentry comes first – The first step after nailing together the boards (they’re 2×8′s – 8 feet long) and it took three of them to make this rectangle. They’re common spruce and not pressure treated or cedar as i wanted to make some inexpensive beds – we tend to move things around at this stage of our garden building so if they rot out in a few years, I’ll simply build good ones where I know I want them to stay. Second step dig out the weeds and grass in the bed and add a layer of compost – that’s the black stuff on the ground. Third step i building raised garden beds approximately 4×8 feet in size – add a 3.8 cubic foot bale of peat moss to the bed and spread it out evenly. Fourth step is to add garden soil – add enough to top up the bed. Fourth step is to mix the underlying soil, the compost, the peat and the top soil into one big mixed up rich soil. Fifth step is to rake it all level. Note I’m not standing on the bed any more. The next person to walk on this bed gets yelled at big time. Once you make wonderfully aerated soil such as this, you do not walk on it. Celebrate! This bed will now grow anything and in our case with our shallow clay soils, this is almost a necessary garden building project to give us enough growing space in our landscaping for food production. Finished! The only two tools used (besides a saw and hammer) were …

This video was taken March 30, 2011 to show a little progress. Things are coming along good so far.