Grow Your Own
Grow Your Own Your own garden can provide you with fresh fruits and vegetables that often taste better than the store-bought variety. A garden can be started with a small plot of land, or you can even start one in pots. A 12x12 garden can supply you with up to $200 worth of fresh veggies every year! Gardening is rewarding and it is a great way to get some physical exercise too.www.garden.com/
You can dress up your garden with a garden shed if you get one that is functional and decorative. Garden sheds come in different shapes and size. The most durable type of shed to get is wood. The metal sheds are great an affordable, but they can get banged up pretty easily.www.garden.com/
- Fertilize - Use about 1/2 pound of manure or compost per square foot of garden space.www.garden.com/
- Grow Organically - Organically grown veggies taste better and may be more nutritious.www.garden.com/
- Slightly Acid Soil - Veggies require a pH of 6.0 - 6.8, generally the more rainfall your area gets, the lower the pH.www.garden.com/
- Raised Beds - Plant in raised beds to minimize fertilizer needs, improve drainage, and maximize space.www.garden.com/
Window Gardening - Gardening New York Style
Growing your own food in New York City can be very difficult. This video show the viewer just how it can be done. There are, what look like long thick vines, but they are actually plastic containers filled with growing plants. The vines are in the windows in Chelsey, a trendy spot in lower Manhattan. The video is a production of www.Grist.org, whose purpose it to get more gardeners gardening in the New York area and in other large cities. The video is 2:41 and it contain a lot of helpful tips to make urban gardening easies and more abundant.
How to Make Indoor Window Gardens
This is a video with Yolanda Vanveen, from www.VanVeenBulbs.com. She is in her kitchen with her large window in the back drop and her plants are sitting on the counter and on the window sill. Vanveen is telling the viewers how to start their own indoor garden on a suitable window sill that get enough sun. The total length of the video is 3:27. She is offering gardening tips and tricks that will keep your indoor garden growing and thriving. She is also offering tips to make the entire area look more decorative. The containers vary in shape and size and Vanveen suggest the addition of shells, figurines and other decorative accessories. An Orchid id the highlighted plant. Vanveen tell how she got her orchid to grow - fast.
Container Gardening: Start Your Own Container Herb Garden
If you do not have a lot of room this video will show you more about how to start a container garden. This is a short video that show you how to get started with your own garden this coming growing season. The host of the video show you how to grow plants, vegetables and herbs without using a lot of space, that you may not even have. She show how to make you herbs grow especially well the way they can be grown right outside your kitchen door. In this informative video, show you how to use an old farmer's market basket to make an easy and convenient container garden. A baby diaper is used to absorb some of the moisture.
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Fast Facts
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Know Your Zone
Before starting a garden, know what frost zone you live in, ranked from 2-10.
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Southern Plot
In the U.S. a garden will receive the most sunlight if it is open to the South.
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Vegetables, Herbs, Flowers
You can grow any of these in a simple starter garden.
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Grow from Seed
The most economical way to grow a garden are from seeds.
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Water
Vegetable gardens are water hogs, be prepared to water at least once every 3 days, and often more.
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Container
You can grow almost any plant or vegetable and some fruit trees in a container.
