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Insects Videos

How to Grow: Organic Vegetable Garden Insect Pest Control

Learn how to control insect pests and care for your vegetable garden by planting the right crops, and using barriers, traps, and organic sprays. For more garden videos, check out the National Gardening Association Transcript Hi I'm Charlie Nardozzi of the National Gardening Association. Today I'd like to talk to you about organic vegetable garden pest control. If you designed your garden well, built up the soil, and mixed in flowers and herbs with your vegetables chances are you're not going to have a lot of insect pests. Natural controls,...

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Perennials Videos

How to Grow: Perennial Flower Combinations

Learn about early summer perennial flower combinations using colorful foliage and flowers to make your summer garden pop. Recently I've been appreciating some perennial flower combinations in our garden. Many of these we planned to grow together, but some just happened to turn out great in spite of us. Color is important in a flower garden but it doesn't all have to come from the flowers. This 'Dark Reiter' geranium has burgundy colored foliage which contrasts well with the golden colored leaves of creeping Jenny (Lysimachia). A similar...

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Vegetable Videos

How to Grow: Pinching Veggies

Learn how to pinch the growth point and flowers or certain veggies to get them to mature faster. Tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, melons, watermelon and winter squash are the vegetables discussed along with the timing and the technique to pinch the ends.

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Trees Videos

How to Grow: Plant a Tree

Learn how to plant your tree in this step by step process including how to dig the hole, placing the tree in the hole, watering the tree, and mulching the tree. Transcript Hi I'm Charlie Nardzzi of the National Gardening Association. Today I'd like to talk to you about how to plant trees and shrubs. Fall is the perfect time to plant deciduous trees and shrubs in most parts of the country. The cool air and short days stimulate the leaves to drop, but the warm soil provide great conditions for tree roots to grow. By  planting in fall your...

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Bulbs Videos

How to Grow: Planting Spring Flowering Bulbs

Learn the best ways to plant and care for tulips, daffodils, hyacinths and other spring flowering bulbs in fall for a beautiful flower garden in spring. This video includes information on planting, fertilizing and layering the bulbs. For more garden videos, check out the National Gardening Association Transcript Hi I'm Charlie Nardozzi of the National Gardening Association. It may look like fall all around me, but I'm thinking about spring. Today I'd like to talk to you about how to plant spring flowering bulbs. There are a number of bulbs...

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Annuals Videos

How to Grow: Pollinators in Your Garden

Watch this video on how to create and care for a pollinator garden in your yard with information on caring for plant varieties, habitat, water and shelter. Learn about the best ways to attract butterflies, bees, birds and other pollinators to your garden. Attracting Pollinators to Your Garden Pollinator gardens are hot lots of people are concerned about the birds butterflies ease and even hummingbirds around the world especially in our changing climate and so a lot of people are growing pollinator garden. They're growing them in nurseries...

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Garden Design & Care Shrubs Videos

How to Grow: Pruning a Hedge

Learn how to prune and care for an evergreen hedge such as arborvitae, cedar and yews. This video has special instructions on the tools and techniques to keep the hedge healthy. For more garden videos, check out the National Gardening Association Transcript Hi I'm Charlie Nardozzi of the National Gardening Association. Today I'd like to show you how to prune an evergreen hedge. Robert Frost once said "good fences make good neighbors". Well plants make excellent fences. Deciduous, which are the plants that drop their leaves in the fall, and...

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Vegetable Videos

How to Grow: Season Extending

Learn about extending the season to care for your vegetable garden. I talk about which veggies to grow for a fall garden, the timing of those plantings and the use of cloches, row covers and cold frames to protect your plants from frost. Transcript I'm Charlie Nardozzi, if you're a vegetable or herb grower you never want the season to end. In some parts of the country you can get away with that, but for most of us we have to deal with frost in the fall. But there are ways to extend your season so you can have a longer harvest. In this...

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Vegetable Videos

How to Grow: Self-Sowing Veggies

Sometimes being a lazy gardener can have some benefits. A few years ago I neglected to cut down some bolting lettuces, greens and arugula in our garden. By the time I got around to cutting them back, they had already created and dropped their seed. I did eventually cut back the bolted veggies, but I remembered where they once stood. The next spring I noticed lettuce and arugula seedlings all in that area. They were in the beds and pathways. I took advantage of this bounty and transplanted them into other beds or just left them to grow in...

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