June 2011

Organic Container Gardening – The Details

by Steve on June 30, 2011

Linna the Locavore returns in this second video where she covers more of the details on creating and using your organic container gardening.

Linna has proven herself to be an outstanding speaker and teacher in the area of sustainable gardening.

Be sure you watched the previous post for the background info for this video episode.

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Organic Container Gardening with Linna Ferguson

by Steve on June 28, 2011

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Back in Episode 34, we talked with Linna Ferguson, aka “Linna the Locavore.

Linna recently released a couple of terrific videos explaining container gardening, and i thought they were well worth a look so I wanted to post it here. Please check them out, you will be glad you did!

Check soon back as i will post another of her videos shortly.

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GYG-036 Garden Photography – Interview with Derek Fell

June 23, 2011

Derek Fell returns this week to talk with us some more about gardening. But this time he will tell us all about taking good garden photos even with simple point and shoot cameras. Besides being a widely read author, Derek runs an extensive photo library of stock photos which are used by commercial magazines and [...]

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Easy Watermelon Method

June 23, 2011

Not sure how to grow some great tasting Watermelon? In this video, I’ll show you how I grow heritage watermelon ( Georgia Rattlesnake) in a bag. This plant produced nearly 100 lbs of watermelons, and two were nearly 30 pounds each! If it it helps you, please share it with your friends.

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Be Thankful for What We Have

June 23, 2011

This past week, I had the opportunity to travel across Minnesota and North Dakota. In the process, I witnessed agricultural devastation like I had never seen before. All through this past Spring, and continuing yet today, cold weather and rain have prevented the upper Midwest farmers from getting their crops in the fields. While I [...]

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Gardening in Hot Weather or Drought

June 17, 2011

While many parts of the US and areas around the world are dealing with excessive rainfall, we here in many parts of the South are experiencing the worst drought seen in many years. To give those of you who don’t experience this, here’s a short glimpse. We are now at Stage 2 restrictions which means [...]

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GYG-035 Interview with Derek Fell

June 17, 2011

This week we have another guest, Derek Fell, the author of many books, including “Vertical Gardening” from Rodale Press. This is the book that inspired the episode of Growing Your Grub a few weeks back on Growing Vegetables Vertically. Originally from the UK, Derek was the Designer and manager of the White House Garden under [...]

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My Favorite Drought Tolerant Landscape Plants

June 12, 2011

Since many of you now have your plants in the ground, and are just waiting for the magic to happen, I thought I would move a little off topic today and talk about my 5 Top Drought Tolerant Landscape Plants. These plants have proven themselves for me here in South Texas, and while many of [...]

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