Garden Video

Make Your Own Plant Tags Easily and Cheaply  Making your own plant tags is easy. All you really need (as this garden video shows) is a large and sharp pair of scissors, an old yogurt container (or ...

Tomato Growing Problems for Late Summer  Here's the answer to three pressing tomato growing problems you're going to be seeing in late summer to early fall during the height of the harvest season....

Garden Design - Colors that Clash in the Garden  In this short video, I wanted to show you my new system for dealing with plants that have clashing colors in my garden design. Sometimes the best of intentions ...

Making a Free Compost Bin 


When it comes to making a free compost bin, the easiest solution is to take 4 skids, a length of wire and make your own bin. I have several of these ...

Spring Gardening - It's Not About the Money  
It's not about the money you spend on your garden that really counts when it comes to having a good garden. Yeah, it helps a lot but there's something ...

Spring Gardening Tips  When it comes to a cold late spring, the rule of thumb is to relax. There are going to be plants that are later than normal and maybe even plants that ...

Building Raised Garden Beds  I want to show you how to build raised garden beds with a minimum of fuss and muss.

Carpentry comes first - The first step after nailing together the ...

Garden Benches in the Landscape Design 
It doesn’t matter whether your landscape design calls for a garden bench or chairs, nor does it matter which style you prefer. What does matter is that ...

Taking plant cuttings  Taking plant cuttings is a time-honored gardening task and here are a few tips on how you can easily propagate your own plants.

There are several important ...

My Trial Garden Video Tour  I love growing flowers and I trial a bunch of new plants every year. So do well and others... well, not so well.

These are raised beds - filled with ...

Growing Lavendar Successfully  Growing lavender successfully! Here's an interview I did with a local lavender grower with some seriously good techniques for both growing and overwintering ...

Feed Your Trees in the Fall  Feed your trees in the late fall for superior growth in the spring.  The video below details how to do this but essentially wait until the leaves ...

Ornamental Grass Hakonechloa  I am a slow convert to using ornamental grass in my gardens.  The first few I tried (touted by nursery friends) were bloodthirsty scavengers that ...

Favorite Perennial Flowers - PPA Winners  I have some favorite perennials that I've grown for some time that have won Perennial Plant of the Year honors.   Here's a short video on these plants ...

How To Water Houseplants and Garden Plants  Here's how to water your overwintering houseplants and indeed - how to water your garden flowers as well.

It's all in the fingers - no need for fancy ...

How To Water Container Plants  Give your plants the finger when watering plants. Think about it, a finger always works and never needs batteries.

Here are the things you need to ...

Making Compost Tea  Here's a quick video on making compost tea. You can see how active the bubbling action is, it's roiling right along :-) This is why I don't recommend ...

Water Gardening in Containers  Here's a quick video on water gardening in containers. A half hour project that's sure to get attention in your garden.

It's easy to do - a large flower ...

Dividing Perennial Flowers - Daylilies  Folks - this is pretty simple garden plant propagation- and a daylily is one of the best plants to start with because it's really one of the toughest plants ...

Pruning Container Gardens  When it comes to pruning container gardens and hanging baskets, these simple techniques will keep your baskets and containers looking great right through ...

Landscaping Ideas: The Garden Gate 

I want to show you some garden gates and give you the reason we use them in garden design.

We use them to “frame the view” of the garden ...

The Word Project - Do  I really like the word do when it comes to gardening.

Vegetable Garden Crop Rotation 
One of the most important things in the vegetable garden is crop rotation. Doing this simple technique (no matter how large or small your garden) makes ...

Planting Bulbs  A quick note about planting bulbs. I sometimes get questions about how deep to plant bulbs and in fact, when I get a new tulip bulb (often directly from ...

Designing the Perennial Garden Part 2  This is part 2 of designing the perennial flower garden so it blooms all year long.

The secret here is in 2 things. The first is plant selection and ...

Designing the Perennial Garden Part 1  There is a hard way to design the perennial garden and an easy way. This is the easy way that anybody can accomplish.

Using this techniques and the ...

Butterfly Gardens  Here's a video about butterfly gardens and a few suggestions around perennial flowers that work for these interesting insects.

Once you're finished ...

Pruning and Deadheading Perennial Flowers  When it comes to deadheading perennials or pruning them severely, there are two basic ways the flowers/stems join the plant.

From the base or from ...