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EZ Autumn Composting with Leaves!

admin — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:00:45 +0000

Autumn isn’t the end of gardening season. The gardening adventure never ends and never ceases to be FREE, educational and just plain FUN! Join me in the backyard for a fantastic day in the sunshine. I have a bag of leaves and a very cool idea on how to easily improve your garden soil. Leaf compost attracts worms like a super magnet. Worms in your garden will mean crazy good soil for your next growing season.

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Duration : 0:8:25

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Portable raised beds, compost tea and Pineapple flowers!

admin — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 13:27:14 +0000

It’s a fantastic day here in the land of Praxxus! Join me for a few minutes and lets talk about compost tea, raised bed sizes AND unexpected pineapple surprises!

Next week’s video includes some fun and unexpected surprises! What am I growing in a cup now? Can you guess? You’ll have to tune in to find out.

Duration : 0:10:56

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Composting for Your Garden

admin — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:07:09 +0000

We join Master Gardener Bettye Ames as she walks us through the steps on how to make your own nutritious compost. She explains the benefits of hot composting and how to turn everyday food and garden waste into “black gold.”

This video is brought to you by the Home and Garden Information Center, part of University of Maryland Extension. provides resources and encourages people to start their own food gardens.
http://www.growit.umd.edu/

Learn about our Grow It Eat It campaign, check out our facebook page for more gardening advice:
http://www.facebook.com/UMDHGIC#!/GIEIMaryland

Animation by Chris Heuer, Freefall FX, LLC

Shot and edited by Brett Wooldridge and Emily Heimsoth

Duration : 0:4:23

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self watering compost tea garden that scares away birds upda

admin — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:39:02 +0000

this is my above grond self watering garden with compost tea and a bunch of ways to scare away birds and critters

Duration : 0:3:26

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Composting for your Garden

admin — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:53:04 +0000

We join Master Gardener Betty Ames as she walks us through the steps on how to make your own nutritious compost. She explains the benefits of hot composting and how to turn everyday food and garden waste into “black gold.”

Learn about our Grow It Eat It campaign, check out our facebook page for more gardening advice:
http://www.facebook.com/UMDHGIC#!/GIEIMaryland

Animation by Chris Heuer, Freefall FX, LLC

Shot and edited by Brett Wooldridge and Emily Heimsoth

Duration : 0:4:23

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No Till Organic Gardening Using Natural Waste And Yard Compost

admin — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 15:49:02 +0000

video filmed at HerbFest, the longest running herb plant sale and herb festival in the U.S., showing the
No till gardening method using organic materials by Dr. Milton Ganyard, professor at North Carolina State University. Proceeds from the HerbFest benefit The Graham Johnson Cultural Arts Endowment, http://www.gjcae.org, a children charitable foundation promotonig the development of self confidence and self esteem using the arts.

Duration : 0:9:41

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My New Vegetable Garden – Parts 2 and 3 – Plus Composting Fun!

admin — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:25:55 +0000

Just a couple updates on my vegetable garden. And some footage of the super awesome composter!

Duration : 0:7:16

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What have we been up to? seedling update, buying city compost, building more raised garden beds

admin — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 10:48:06 +0000

since we lent out our usual camera, we couldn’t make a video update so you will have to just watch some photos of what we have been up to. this video includes an update on our seedlings in the house as well as what is growing outside; we shoveled city compost into the trunk of our car then had to shovel it out into our backyard; we picked up wood and began assembling some new raised bed garden frames

for more info on using city compost, see http://www.gettingtheregreen.com/2011/04/11/compost-obtained-easily/

music titled “Angels to Guard You” by Kendra Springer is licensed under Creative Commons and can be downloaded at jamendo.com

Duration : 0:3:7

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Growing at Reiman Gardens 030 Compost Tea

admin — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:23:06 +0000

On this episode of Growing at Reiman Gardens, Jeremy Orr, Iowa State University student and summer gardener, demonstrates how to prepare a compost tea that is great for your vegetable garden. All you need is water, ordinary aquarium supplies, molasses, and good compost for a totally organic fertilizer. For more information about Reiman Gardens, please visit www.reimangardens.com

Duration : 0:7:48

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The Foundations Of Gardening With Organic Gardening Techniques

Blake Seltzer — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:08:33 +0000

Organic gardening is the method of growing herbs, veggies, fruits, and other plants without using synthetic pesticide sprays or fertilizers. The main motivation is to operate in harmony with mother nature to provide produce in addition to flowers without negatively affecting the natural environment or our health and wellness.

Organic farmers often recycle the resources that the garden depletes by saving any organic resources produced. The effect is a recycling of nature’s bounty.

One of the main characteristics of an organic garden is that there isn’t any man-made pesticide sprays or fertilizers utilized to help grow plants. The concept in regards to this would be that the natural world is healthier without these types of nasty chemicals harming other living organisms (including people).

You do organic gardening based on what you see. For instance, to determine if pesky insects are targeting your plants, you should pay attention to the plant itself. Notice under the leaves, exploring the flowers, observing the stems… Find out what bugs are in fact eating on your plants. After you notice the unwanted insects, you can educate yourself on what the very best organic methods of insect control are for that specific bug, virus, or fungus.

The techniques of pest management can include things as easy as squirting soap and water on your vegetation. It sometimes calls for unusual things like cayenne pepper. Other times you will discover that you may require even something as exotic as beer. Did you know that beer will kill snails? It’s true!

There are lots of bug repelling plants that help the organic gardener. Marigolds are a good example of insect repellent plants. If you will plant marigolds near your tomatoes, it will help keep the insect population down. Marigolds put out phytochemicals that insects don’t like to be around.

Some insects are considered so good for the organic garden that gardeners try to bring them in to battle the bad bugs if they are not present. The ladybug and the praying mantis are two of the most famous beneficial bugs in the gardening world. Organic gardeners love them to live in high populations in their organic garden. Aphids make a tasty treat for these bugs. Because of this predation, the plants grow to be much healthier in the absence of garden pests.

Soil is the foundation of most gardening, unless you are thinking about hydroponics which requires no soil, only water. However, the organic gardener wants rich soil that will make the plants grow well. The result is a bountiful crop that thrives in the organic soil. Organic soil is very rich in nutrients and therefore so is the food produced by it.

Organic gardening is the best way to grow garden food. Read more about McGroarty’s Plant Production Secrets at PlantProductionSecrets.com Also published at The Foundations Of Gardening With Organic Gardening Techniques.

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