The best gardening & homesteading channels on Youtube
In this video, Huw Richards provides tips on how to make healthy cuttings from plants. He recommends using compost, a rooting stimulator, hormone rooting powder, and sunlight to encourage the plant to root. The cuttings need to be kept well-watered and can benefit from a misting spray.
💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. How to rename garden plans or delete them using the Vegetable Garden Planner. We also describe when you should create a ‘Follow-on’ plan to help with crop rotation rather than changing the year of a plan.
This video demonstrates how to propagate cotoneaster from semi-hardwood cuttings, with step-by-step instructions on selecting and preparing cuttings, applying rooting hormone, and planting in compost.
Learn how to make free seed pots by reusing old toilet paper rolls or wrapping paper rolls with this tutorial from Houston Nurseries.
In this video, Huw Richards demonstrates how to make a refreshing and healthy herbal tea using lemon balm leaves. Lemon balm is easy to grow and adds a tangy flavor to teas.
This YouTube video shows how to propagate soapwort from cuttings to make a natural shampoo. The process involves taking cuttings just below the first set of leaves, removing the bottom leaves, dipping them in hormone powder, and planting them in compost. The cuttings should be kept moist in a polytunnel or greenhouse until they root, which takes about two weeks.
This video tutorial demonstrates how to propagate lavender from cuttings. It involves selecting shoots without flowers, cutting them to a length of about 4 inches, removing the bottom set of leaves, dipping the cuttings in rooting hormone, and planting them in compost.
In this video, Huw Richards demonstrates how to propagate golden marjoram from softwood cuttings using rooting powder and compost.
This video demonstrates how to propagate honeysuckle from softwood cuttings using a simple and effective method. The process involves cutting off the flower head, removing the leaves, and placing the cuttings in a carton of water. The cuttings should be left for three weeks and the water changed every two to three days.
This video demonstrates how to pot on a black currant sapling using a pot and compost. The presenter shows how to carefully dig out the sapling to avoid damaging the roots and how to plant it in a pot.
This YouTube video provides tips on dealing with common tomato diseases and suggests organic solutions, such as using plant tone, epsom salt, compost tea, and deer and rabbit repellent.
The YouTube video explains how to make a super bell pepper plant by cross-pollinating a certified organic mild jalapeno with a certified organic and heirloom sweet bell pepper. The resulting plant will have the yield of a mild jalapeno and the sweetness of a bell pepper. The plant will also be sturdier and have more branches, and the peppers will be larger.
The Urban Homestead is a short film showcasing the journey of a family in Pasadena towards self-sufficiency by turning their city lot into an urban homestead. The family grows their own food, raises chickens, produces biodiesel, and uses solar energy.
In this video, MI Gardner demonstrates how to build raised beds using screws and lumber in a cheap and easy method.
This YouTube video provides a quick tip on how to pollinate indoor vegetables, such as pepper plants and tomatoes, using a Q-tip.
💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. The Garden Planner makes it easy to create the perfect Square Foot Garden layout for your raised beds.
💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. The Garden Planner can copy your garden layout from previous year’s plans making it easy to start a plan for subsequent years. It remembers where vegetables were planted in previous years and automatically advises on crop rotation so you don’t need to refer back to previous plans…
💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. How to add notes to your plans created in the Garden Planner. This video shows how you can keep track of how your vegetables, fruit and herbs did over the growing season, add notes about varieties and review what you wrote in previous years. The Garden Planner…
💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. The Garden Planner can be set to give specific recommended planting dates for your area based on our database of thousands of weather stations. The software automatically calculates the best sow, plant and harvest dates and then sends email reminders twice a month detailing what you need…
💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. The Garden Planner makes it easy to create your perfect garden layout which you can reuse year after year. By using the flexible drawing tools you can easily draw out your garden with different shaped areas, curved lines and the background fill tool. Once your plan is…
💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. Succession Planting is where you grow more than one crop in the same area of ground during different parts of the year. The Garden Planner helps you to organize succession planting by enabling you to view your plan for different months, showing which vegetables herbs and fruit…
💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. The Garden Planner can copy your garden layout from previous year’s plans making it easy to start a plan for subsequent years. It remembers where vegetables were planted in previous years and automatically advises on crop rotation so you don’t need to refer back to previous plans…
💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. The Garden Planner can be set to give specific recommended planting dates for your area based on our database of thousands of weather stations. The software automatically calculates the best sow, plant and harvest dates and then sends email reminders twice a month detailing what you need…
💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. The Garden Planner has a full range of common vegetables, fruit and herbs which can be added to your plans. For each plant detailed growing information is just a click away. Once added to the plan the software calculates how many plants you can grow and the…
💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. The Garden Planner makes it easy to create your perfect garden layout which you can reuse year after year. By using the flexible drawing tools you can easily draw out your garden with different shaped areas, curved lines and the background fill tool. Once your plan is…
💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. The Garden Planner makes it simple to create the perfect plans for your vegetable garden. It includes detailed growing information on all commonly grown vegetables, fruit and herbs and adapts to your local area, advising you on when to sow, plant and harvest your crops If you…
A family in Pasadena, California has created an urban homestead on their city lot, growing more than 300 varieties of produce, raising goats, ducks, and chickens, and powering their home with 12 solar panels, biodiesel made from vegetable oil, and muscle power.
Homegrown Revolution (2008) is a film short that gives a brief introduction to the Dervaes Family’s urban homestead which they call “Path to Freedom.” On this tiny city lot, a beautiful and productive oasis was created, producing 6,000 lbs of food annually and is a model of urban sustainability. Film premiers at the WILD &…
