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July 2010

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hugelkultur – raised bed gardening sans irrigation

http://www.permies.com
Grow a garden that won’t need irrigation or fertilization. An excellent permaculture staple.
Lots of wood buried with soil.
Includes discussion of types of woods and the acidic and allelopathic stuff of conifers.
Filmed in missoula montana.
Music by Jimmy Pardo
Duration : 0:2:0

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Filed under: garden raised bed by admin - 15 July 2010, 12 Comments

Jason’s Upside Down Garden 09 – 1

March 30th, 2009
This video will be the first in a video series documenting how an Upside Down Hanging Vegetable Garden (my first attempt) grows during the 09 season. Not sure how often I will update, I’m guessing right now every 2 weeks or so.
I’ve seen a bunch of helpful videos on how to make [...]

Filed under: vegetable garden design by admin - 12 July 2010, 19 Comments

Farmer George raised garden bed July 1 2010.MOV

Happy July everybody! Here’s a quick garden update from “farmer” George to show you whats been happening to my 5 x 12 foot raised garden bed and also some of my other garden areas…We’ve been having lots of high heat and humidity which really kicks the tomatos, cukes, zukes into gear (while bolting the [...]

Filed under: raised gardens by admin - 9 July 2010, 9 Comments

Garden Update #4 – June 7, 2010 – Raised Bed Vegetable Garden – Survivalist

Raised Bed Gardening update for June 7th, 2010.
Bumper crops of red sails lettuce, kentucky blue pole beans, radish, turnips, and snow peas. Egyptian spinach malabar helios icicle radishes black spanish chinese red bell pepper jalapeno ancho cherry tomatoes survival carrots arugula cucumber cress survivalist.
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Duration : 0:1:7

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Filed under: raised vegetable by admin - 4 July 2010, No Comments

Square Foot Gardening Tips: November

Patti Moreno, The Garden Girl & Mel Bartholomew of Square Foot Gardening, discuss what gardeners are doing in the month of November. Don’t forget to visit squarefootgardening.com and gardengirltv.com for more. Distributed by Tubemogul.
Duration : 0:4:40

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Filed under: gardening-tips by admin - 29 June 2010, 14 Comments

Edible Garden on a Condo Patio Conversion – Growing food in South Florida (part 1 of 2)

John of http://www.growingyourgreens.com helps a friend convert his condo patio into an edible square foot garden. This is part 1 of 2. In this episode see before picture, water filter and irrigation install and the plants we will plant.
Duration : 0:10:0

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Filed under: garden raised bed by admin - 23 June 2010, 4 Comments

Harvest Salad from a Raised Bed Vegetable Garden

Harvesting veggies and mixing up a salad. The ingredients are:
One Purple Easter Egg Radish.
One Hakurei White Turnip.
Red Sail Leaf Lettuce.
Red Baron Scallions.
I chop up everything, including the turnip and radish greens – tops.
Sprinkle with Garlic Powder and Ground Pepper.
One Half Tablespoon Macadamia Nut Oil.
Apple Cider Vinegar.
So far the garden has yielded 2-4 of these [...]

Filed under: raised vegetable by admin - 17 June 2010, No Comments

Raised Vegetable Bed Demo

Duration : 0:9:34

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Filed under: raised vegetable by admin - 14 June 2010, No Comments

Square Foot Gardening Tips: October

Patti Moreno, The Garden Girl & Mel Bartholomew of Square Foot Gardening, discuss what gardeners are doing in the month of October. Don’t forget to visit squarefootgardening.com and gardengirltv.com for more. Distributed by Tubemogul.
Duration : 0:5:28

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Filed under: gardening-tips by admin - 31 May 2010, 23 Comments

vegetable garden update-raised bed, herbs, runner beans etc

a ramble on the raised bed we have ion our small back garden. Due to our location and a high water table, the back yard is often waterlogged. This stops most things growing. We dealt with it by produceing a raised bed, the sides held in my black polythene and wooden rods. This raises the [...]

Filed under: raised vegetable by admin - 28 May 2010, 2 Comments
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