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Shade Gardening & Shade Garden Plants

[WPXperVideo id=1 ] Shade Gardening & Shade Garden Plants Hello I’m Catherine crouch, BBC gardener of the decade. So today I’m going to show you how to plant up a north-facing border on this slightly unpromising patch of ground here. But don’t worry by the end of the day it’s going to look gorgeous. A

Preparing Your Soil and Other Gardening Topics

Preparing Your Soil We know it’s cold out there. However we’ve got a great program to help you warm up and get ready for the upcoming growing season. Today we’ll be bringing you ideas for preparing your soil. We’ll take a look at a hearty and beautiful shrub. Also we’ll help you keep taller plants

Making Fall and Winter Gardening Easier

Extend the Growing Season Winter gardening. Extending the growing season into the fall and winter here in zone five without using artificial heat can be a challenge. But I’m always looking for new ways to both grow more food in the fall and winter. And to make it easier. For example building this hoop house

Beekeeping For Beginners

How to start beekeeping Beekeeping for beginners. I had a lot of people ask me to do a documentary about beekeeping, so stay tuned. So I really didn’t have a clue where to start and I got pretty fortunate because I found a couple. Robert and Gloria, who were actually teaching a class at the

How to Successfully Start Seeds Indoors

Start seeds indoors Start seeds indoors. Every winter, I get itchy to start planting seeds, because I want to get my garden growing. Even though the snow is outside, or it’s cold weather. So in today’s video I’m going to walk you through exactly what to do to start seeds indoors. Then you will have

Wooden Garden Sheds Explained

Wooden Garden Sheds Explained We are briefly explaining some of the terms you may come across when buying wooden garden sheds. Covering things such as roof shapes, construction materials and some of the different names for various parts of a shed. Roof shapes An apex roof shape is when there is a ridge running along

How to Insulate Your Garden Shed in 30 Minutes

Insulate your shed How to insulate your garden shed using a radiant barrier. Insulating your garden shed with reflective insulation is easy to prevent frost, cold and damp air corroding tools and machinery. Or killing plants and vegetables. This works by providing a more ambient all year-round temperature. This video will show you how to

Fall Garden Planting Basics

Lettuce is art of your fall gardening crop

Fall is The New Spring! Planting a fall garden. What is going on? Over and welcome to another very exciting episode right here on the mi Gardner channel I am so excited for this episode because I’m gonna be sharing with you not only my favorite season of gardening but also a lot of plants

Propagating Hydrangea Cuttings

How to propagate Hydrangea Cuttings Propagating Hydrangea cuttings. I’ve brought here five different types of hydrangea. There are three hydrangea macrophylla. Arborescens and one panicled hydrangea. It is time to start rooting. because hydrangea is starting to bloom. It is the best if they stop blooming and the shoots are matured. But this year. .

Climate-Friendly Gardening

What Does Climate-Friendly Gardening Mean? Climate-friendly gardening involves using natural gardening practices to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. Plus, these practices encourage healthier soil by improving the absorption of carbon dioxide – which also reduces the issues with global warming. What Are Greenhouse Gases? First, let’s understand the problem with greenhouse gases. While about 66