Video: Container Gardening with Succulents

This short video offers some great tips for choosing and planting succulents in containers. From selecting the correct pot based on your climate, to choosing succulents that will grow outdoors or indoors, Tricia shares some helpful ways to have success with your succulent container garden.

The books that she recommends are listed below the video for your convenience.

Growing Succulents
Learn how to grow succulents in containers, indoors or outdoors. More info in our blog post http://groworganic.com/organic-gardening/articles/make-your-own-s...


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Video: Plant Propagation from Cuttings

This helpful video describes and demonstrates what you need to do know for successful propagation via plant cuttings. This can be a great way to add new and interesting plants to your garden. See a plant you love in someone else's garden? Ask if you can take a cutting! You can quickly and easily add new plants to your garden without having to wait for them to grow from seeds.

In this video he demonstrates how to do a plant cutting with a couple of different herbs - rosemary and thyme. He waters with a kelp mixture to stimulate root production naturally and organically. Kelp can be found in most garden centers, as well as online.

Check it out, and get cutting!

 

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Video - Herbs for Beginning Gardeners

Here is a quick video describing some herbs that are great for beginning organic gardeners to start with, as some of them will come back every year, they are easy to grow, and there are lots of great ways to use them. Check this out, and see how easy it is to get started with a fun and useful little herb garden!

Herb Gardening For Beginners - Best Herbs For An Organic Garden
Go to www.smilinggardener.com to see the best 3 herb plants. I was thinking about herb gardening for beginners, and I was trying to think of what I would recommend as the best herbs for getting started with in an organic herb garden. Let me know what...



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Video - Worm Farming - Why & How

Here is a really quick video on why worm farming is important, and how you can get involved, whether for your large commercial business or small family home or apartment. Worm farming is a great way to get wonderful organic compost which can be used for gardening, or even sold commercially (or donated to schools and other organizations if desired). It keeps decomposable waste out of landfills, and provides valuable nutrients to the soil.

This video shows a variety of different solutions for different sizes of worm farms. You can find a couple of family-sized worm farm solutions listed below the video as well.

Worm Farm Introduction and Guide
Worm farming. An introduction to worm farming and Worms R Us worm farm products.


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