DuneCraft Product Demo-Culinary Herb Garden
February 3, 2010 by admin
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Learn how to grow and use herbs right in your own kitchen in less than a week! This complete kit contains everything needed to keep fresh herbs in your home for months upon months. Sprout and start seedlings in the dome for transplant, or grow and use them right out of your culinary dome.
Duration : 0:0:24
How often should I water my herb garden? (basil, parsley,chive,sage…)?
February 3, 2010 by admin
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I’ve recently planted an herb garden. it’s about 1 week old and I planted herbs that have already grown (not seeds). They seem to be doing well and growing already, but wondering how often i should be watering them?
We have our herbs planted in a sunny afternoon location and water them every other day in the morning. It really depends on what you have them planted in or if in the ground. You want to keep the soil moist but not soaked. If they dry out they will become brittle. Good Luck.
The Chia Gourmet Herb Garden
February 1, 2010 by admin
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It’s the indoor Herb Growong Kit, featuring the exclusive CHIA GROWING SPONGE, four terra cotta post & saucers, saucer liners, 6 different herb seed and plant markers.
Duration : 0:0:30
Would it be wise to mulch my herb garden if the weather calls for light snow?
January 31, 2010 by admin
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Sun. and Mon. I have already cleaned my herb garden out and last year the frost killed my Lavender and several others. temps have been in the 70’s but they are calling for light snow on sun. Everthing is coming up and looking good. should I worry?
Mulch will not help. It is cold air, rather than cold ground that will damage the plants. If you think the temperature will drop really low, cover the plants temporarily with sacking or some other wind shield.
Lavender is fairly cold-hardy, so I am surprised yours was killed with cold. It is more likely to have died in the winter from getting too wet — it needs well drained soil.
How do you plan and grow an organic vegetable and herb garden?
January 30, 2010 by admin
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I want to have my very own organic vegetable and herb garden for my family and my consumption. Please share with me how to do so. Thank you in advance.
To get a good organic garden going takes years of soil building. start small as a big garden will get overwhelming come the hot part of summer. I would say a garden no bigger than 10 feet by 20 feet the first growing season.
Now is the time to start garden prep by choosing where you want the garden and opening up the sod. smothering the area where you will have the garden is a good first step or you can plow the sod open and till it in next spring. plowing is a lot more effective than tilling for killing grass.
You will also need some tools. Get a couple of hoes, my favourite is the shuffle or stirrup hoe. You can find these at any box store. they are lighter and easier to use than the standard concrete hoe most people think of when they think about hoes. You will also need a wheel barrow or garden cart, a potato fork (looks somewhat like a pitch fork but fatter), a shovel, a spade, a couple of trowels.
You will need seeds. My favourite place to get seeds is Johnny’s Selected Seeds in Maine. http://johnnysseeds.com
Start with easy things to grow and pay attention to the fact not everything grows in every season. Lettuce for example is best planted in the spring, it likes cool damp conditions. Tomatoes and peppers like it hot. A good seed catalogue will tell you such information. You will likely want to use seedlings for a lot of things such as tomatoes. Do not buy these at places like Wal-Mart. Go to a local nursery and tell them you are just starting out and you will get a lot of advice. One caveat, most nurseries (and box stores) are NOT organic and do not know much about organic growing so ignore all advice to use chemicals. But you will find healthier seedlings at most local places than box stores.
Good luck
How to Grow an Herb Garden Indoors or Outdoors : Soil Preparation Methods: Growing an Herb Garden
January 29, 2010 by admin
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Soil preparation: Growing your own indoor – outdoor herb garden: Learn how to make a basic herb garden in this free gardening video series, with tips for herb selection, soil preparation methods, planting techniques, and herb plant maintenance.
Expert: Jose Zuniga
Bio: Jose Zuniga learned all the basics of landscaping from his Grandpa, including planting flowers according to season, and how to grow different types of vegetables.
Filmmaker: Grady Johnson
Duration : 0:2:31
How to Grow an Herb Garden Indoors or Outdoors : Plant Food: Growing an Herb Garden
January 27, 2010 by admin
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Plant food: Growing your own indoor – outdoor herb garden: Learn how to make a basic herb garden in this free gardening video series, with tips for herb selection, soil preparation methods, planting techniques, and herb plant maintenance.
Expert: Jose Zuniga
Bio: Jose Zuniga learned all the basics of landscaping from his Grandpa, including planting flowers according to season, and how to grow different types of vegetables.
Filmmaker: Grady Johnson
Duration : 0:1:42
how do I use crop rotation in an herb garden?
January 27, 2010 by admin
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I’m desinging an herb garden but can’t seem to find any information on using crop rotation practices with my annual herbs.
This is a small garden, 27′ by 29′ with a winding pathway, so the beds are all different sizes and irregular shapes. I’m designing it for a school project and the information I’ve come up with so far points to not really needing to use crop rotation for herb, but the assignment asks for a rotation scheme.
Crop rotation is a technique for ensuring that you do not deplete the soil, by rotating the crops, you give the fallow fieldsa chance to recupperate and "restock" on nutrients that the plants need.
In a small garden, it is not necessary since you can just add a layer of fertilizer each year (potting soil, work castings, compost, etc). This ensures that the soil does not become "sterile" and can still support vigorous plant growth.
If you have no chhoice but to rotate due to a project or assignment, there are two ways of doing it.
1) You clear several areas but only plant on one of them, each year you rotate to a new plot so that each plot is only used once every several years – his technique is used in very poor soil and gives each plot lots of time to recover.
2) More commonly used is the 3/4 method – you clear four plots and only plant 3. You then rotate the next year so that one of the old plots is not used the second year. This ensures that each plot recieves 1 year to recover out of 4.
Like I said, rotation is rarely used today due to fertilization techniques, but can stil befound in some of the poorer regions of the world.
The slash and burn technique anotther poster mentioned is the method of fertilizing, by burning the remainder of the crop thats unused (say the stalk of the corn plant) the burned ashes fertilize the field.
Good Luck
How to Grow an Herb Garden Indoors or Outdoors : Herb Garden Care & Maintenance
January 26, 2010 by admin
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Herb garden care & maintenance: Growing your own indoor – outdoor herb garden: Learn how to make a basic herb garden in this free gardening video series, with tips for herb selection, soil preparation methods, planting techniques, and herb plant maintenance.
Expert: Jose Zuniga
Bio: Jose Zuniga learned all the basics of landscaping from his Grandpa, including planting flowers according to season, and how to grow different types of vegetables.
Filmmaker: Grady Johnson
Duration : 0:2:33
Where can I buy an aero herb garden?
January 26, 2010 by admin
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Where can I buy an aero herb garden in a store (not online) in time for Christmas?
Also, do you have any idea how much they cost?
You can buy them at Target
