The first part of our summer long battle with the Colorado Potato Beetle, Flea Beetle, and other problems with growing potatoes. Visit our community site for more info http://gardenfork.tv
Duration : 8 min 47 sec
How to garden organically
by Tricia
The first part of our summer long battle with the Colorado Potato Beetle, Flea Beetle, and other problems with growing potatoes. Visit our community site for more info http://gardenfork.tv
Duration : 8 min 47 sec
by Tricia
"The Public Square is the Heart of the Community"
Mark Lakeman, Co-Director of the non-profit City Repair Project, speaks at Washington State University/Vancouver.
From the City Repair website www.cityrepair.org :
Who We Are:
"We�re Portlanders and newcomers, students, professionals, laborers, cooks and bottle-washers."
Mission:
"The City Repair Project is an organized group action that educates and inspires communities and individuals to creatively transform the places where they live."
"We facilitate artistic and ecologically-oriented placemaking through projects that honor the interconnection of human communities and the natural world."
Why City Repair?
In 1785, the Continental Congress passed the National Land Ordinance, which laid a Roman colonial grid over all lands west of the Ohio River. This included all future cities and towns.
Public spaces and piazzas occur naturally at the intersection of pathways when communities are allowed to grow organically. The National Land Ordinance both pre-empted th…
Duration : 1 hr 49 min
by Tricia
Patti shows you more innovative ways to vertical garden. Check out her website at www.gardengirltv.com
Duration : 2 min 47 sec
by Tricia
Host Zoe Simpson explains why to eat organic grains: for nutrition and money savings. Written and produced by Larry Cook, author of The Beginnerâs Guide to Natural Living. Distributed by Tubemogul.
Duration : 56 sec
by Tricia
I'd like to get into organic gardening for my family and I . I have absolutely no idea where to begin. I'd like to grow carrots, peas, lettuce, beans, zucchini, squash. Can anyone offer any helpful hints or websites. Thanks
I have been making my living growing produce organically for the past 14 years. For 8 years i was certified organic. I assume you don't care to get certified, you just want to grow pure food.
http://www.idigmygarden.com/forums/ is a great forum to learn the ropes. Organic gardening also has a really good forum and the magazine is an excellent resource http://www.organicgardening.com
It will take many years to get you soil in shape and learn the techniques for successful organic growing so don't expect a great garden for a few years. Start small, no more than a 10' x 10' (3m x 3m) garden the first year or you will get overwhelmed in august when the weather is hot, the insects are out and the weeds are growing high.
Mulch everything with straw (not hay as hay tends to have a lot of weed seeds) and mulch well-at least 6" thick. Straw mulch will keep weeds down, moisture in the soil and blight from happening on plants like tomatoes. It also adds organic matter to your soil.
Have a good hoe, rake, wheelbarrow, trowel and garden fork as your basic garden tools.
Start a compost pile ASAP, compost will be the main thing you will feed to the soil/plants. Compost is the best thing to build healthy soil and organics is all about building healthy soil as any organic grower worth their salt knows soil is alive and healthy soils means healthy pest free plants.
Good luck