Posts Tagged ‘organic’
Allotment diary planting early onion sets in modules for faster growth
Just a quick video of what you can do to speed up your onion growing from early bought onion sets. Instead of just storing them until mid march or early April to plant them, you can simply plant each set into a module tray in February and this should bring them into growth earlier, and then when the soil warms up you can plant them out on the allotment and they’ll be about a month ahead.
New Tumbleweed Worm Farm
For my birthday on June 19th I received a 0 voucher from my other half, Christopher. With it I decided to buy myself a REAL worm farm and some more worms. In this video I show the contents, construction and setup of the new worm farm. It looks fantastic and I think it will out perform my little home made one by a mile.. Let’s see..
Plants & Flowers ~ Garden Time
Beautiful detail of flowers in bloom captured with Sony High Def HDR HC9 Handy-cam camcorder.
GROW GREENS ALL WINTER! “tunnel gardening”
This is the “covered” raised garden beds (sq. ft. gardens). This was filmed in December 2008, outside temps. averaging around 40F. during the day. We’ve been eating the greens all winter! Definitely an inexpensive way to eat salad greens all winter! www.rawutah.com
crocuses in bloom – it’s finally spring!!
it’s officially spring, crocuses are blooming, bees are flying – what a perfect world. Music: Intro Aranjuez by Daniel Bautista creativecommons.org
dog shopping for raised garden bed materials at home depot
PENNY REH goes for a trip to her local home depot hardware store, entering at the nursery section, to look for materials to grow her own food . She is all into building raised beds and putting in her own organic veggie crops, just look ho excited she is to grow her own greens!!!!!!!! don’t forget to take your pup in on errands whenever you can , they love it!
Winter raised bed garden update – January 8th, 2012
The winter raised garden is looking really great after just over a month since being planted. I have to say I don’t see any pest damage and that very well could be due to the diatomaceous earth that I added as a top dressing. The broccoli and cauliflower are starting to show and I can’t wait to watch them get even bigger!
A Homegrown Revolution Starts with You. Grow Food not Lawns.
John from www.growingyourgreens.com shares with you how he transformed his front lawn into an all-bed raised bed edible garden. He lives on just 1 acre lot and grows the majority of his vegetables. He shows you how you can too
Adding Biochar-Winterizing Bed
See video garden calendar at organotill.org. Talks about using micorizzal fungi in garden beds to slow global warming as part of an intro to our no till gardening calendar. This is one of many videos that follows the gardening season chronologically in Kansas City and similar areas. We hope that people can follow along and work in their own gardens at organotill.org. Organotill.org features organic no-till methods used at Niles Home for Children’s Garden, Tracy Garden & elsewhere.
Grow a tomato plant indoors in winter
It’s very easy to grow a tomato plant indoors even in winter. It may seem a bit weird, but I guess it could be weirder. I could be growing watermelons in my tub.