This Week In the Garden - 2023
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Correct Planting Depth
To thrive plants need to be planted at the correct depth. UT Extension Agent Chris Cooper shows example of cauliflower plants planted too deep, too shallow and just right.
Related Videos: Planting Cool Season Vegetables Trench Method for Planting Tomatoes Related Resources: The Tennessee Vegetable Garden - Backyard Vegetables |
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Spring Tree Pruning
This week in the garden University of Memphis Director of Landscape Joellen Dimond shows how to prune a tree. She removes rubbing branches, branches that are growing into the center of the tree, and watershoots.
Related Videos: How to Prune Shrubs Tools for Pruning Trees Disinfecting and Cleaning Garden Tools Related Resources: Tree Pruning Essentials Pruning Landscape Trees |
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Pick - Don't Cut - Daffodils
When you want to bring in daffodils out of your garden pick them, don't cut them. There is a virus that can spread between your plants with cutting tools. Dale Skaggs from Dixon Gallery and Gardens shows how to easily pick the daffodils and gives some advice on how to keep them in a vase.
Links to Daffodil Society Webpages: American Daffodil Society (US) The Royal Horticultural Society (UK) The Daffodil Society (UK) Related Videos: Planting Daffodils and Tulips When is the best time to plant daffodils? How do daffodils get scattered naturally? Related Resources: Spring Flowering Bulbs: Daffodils Spring-Flowering Bulbs |
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Refreshing Winter Annuals
This week in the Garden Kim Rucker, the greenhouse manager at Dixon Gallery and Gardens shows how to make annuals, in this case dusty miller look better after a long winter. She trims ragged looking branches at the base of the plant revealing new growth underneath.
Related Videos: Planting the Dusty Millers Pruning Flowering Annuals Related Video: Pruning Herbaceous Plants |
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Rope Around a Tree
This week in the garden UT Extension Agent Chris Cooper shows how some rope is starting to cut into the bark of a tree. The rope is holding up a bird house and Chris loosens the rope to allow the tree to grow.
Related Videos: Planting a Tree Young Tree Checkup Related Resource: Embedded Wires or Collars - Trees and Shrubs |
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Aphids on Milkweed
This week in the garden our milkweed is covered with yellow aphids. You can’t use insecticides because that may harm monarch butterfly caterpillars which feed on the milkweed, so Dixon Gallery and Gardens Volunteer Coordinator Tonya Ashworth shows how to use a jet of water to knock the aphids off. You may need to do this several times until the aphids are discovered by predatory insects who bring them under control.
Related Videos: I sprayed aphids with an insecticidal mix. Now the leaves are black. What happened? I have aphids on my milkweed. How can I get rid of them without harming monarch caterpillars? Related Resources: Aphids Got your Milkweeds Aphids Spoiling Monarch Milkweeds |
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Keep Tiny Newly-Planted Seeds from Drying Out
When you plant tiny seeds on the surface it can be difficult to keep them from drying out. Kim Rucker, Greenhouse Manager at Dixon Gallery and Gardens shows how she uses a thin layer of vermiculite to keep surface-planted seeds moist until they can germinate and grow.
Related Videos: Starting Vegetable Seeds Indoors Seeds or Transplants Related Resources: Starting Seeds Indoors Starting Plants Indoors From Seeds |
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Potting Rooted Cuttings
This week in the garden University of Memphis Director of Landscape Joellen Dimond pots the coleus cuttings she took before last fall’s frost. The roots have intertwined in the water. After carefully separating them she puts them in moist soil. These plants will only be in the pot for a few weeks before she plants them outside in her garden.
Related Videos: Easy Way to Root Cuttings from Annuals How do you root roses from clippings? Planting Bare Root Strawberries Related Resource: Propagating by Cutting or Layering Plant Propagation by Stem Cuttings |
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When to Harvest Radishes
This week in the garden Master Gardener Tom Mashour shows how to tell if a radish is ready to pull or if it past its prime.
Related Videos: When to Pick Bell Peppers When to Pick Okra Related Resources: Radishes in the Garden Carrot, Beet, Radish & Parsnip Vegetable Harvest and Storage |
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Taking a Soil Sample
To find out what nutrients you soil has, or what fertilizer you need, have your soil tested. Joellen Dimond, Director of Landscape at the University of Memphis shows how to use a trowel to get an accurate sample of your garden soil for testing. She takes soil samples from about 6 inches below the surface in several places and mixes them together to get a representative sample. You can send this sample to a lab to find out what nutrients are in your soil.
Related Videos: Soil Testing Soil Preparation Related Resources: Soil Testing - University of Tennessee |
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Fixing Volcano Mulch
This week in the garden Extension Agent Chris Cooper shows how to fix volcano mulch around a tree. Landscapers often pile mulch too deep around trees. Mulch should not be up against the tree. You should be able to see the root flairs. Move the mulch away from the tree and spread it out.
Related Video: Volcano Mulch Kinds of Mulch Related Resources: Mulch Mulches Mulching |
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Remove Diseased Plants at the End of the
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Getting Strawberries Ready for Winter
This week in the garden Master Gardener Tom Mashour shows how to clean up a strawberry bed in the fall and tells how to fertilize in the spring.
Related Videos: Moving and Renovating Strawberries Strawberry Problems Related Resources: Growing Strawberries Growing strawberries in the home garden |
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How to Harvest and Clean Milkweed Seeds
Milkweed seeds can be messy to deal with because of all the fluff. UT Extension Agent Celeste Scott shows the best time to harvest the seeds and how to easily remove all the fluff so they can be stored over the winter.
Related Videos: Propagating Milkweed Monarch Butterflies: Migration and Milkweed Related Resources: Common Milkweed Milkweeds: Fascinating Plants, Home to Colorful Insects |
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Collecting and Cleaning Small Seeds
This week in the garden UT Extension Agent Celeste Scott shows a simple way to collect and clean seeds from parsley, dill, fennel, cilantro, and other plants where flowers grow on an umbel, or tall stock with many small flowers. She shows how to pick the flowers and separate the seeds. She then shows a way to easily separate the seeds from debris and clean them.
Related Videos: Collecting Flower Seeds Collecting Wind-Blown Seeds Collecting and Saving Vegetable Seeds Related Resources: Fennel Parsley |
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Harvesting Seeds from Okra
This week in the garden UT Extension Agent Celeste Scott shows how to collect okra seeds from a dry pod to save for next spring.
Related Videos: Collecting and Saving Vegetable Seeds Preparing Vegetable Seeds for Storage: Fleshy Vegetables Related Resources: Collecting and Storing Seeds from Your Garden How do I save seeds for next year’s garden? |
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Getting Houseplants Ready to Bring Indoors
This week in the garden horticulture expert Dr. Lelia Kelly tells what to do to get houseplants ready to bring inside for the winter.
Related Videos: Moving Houseplants Indoors Building a Self-Watering Houseplant Pot Related Resources: Prepare Houseplants for Trip Back Indoors The Homeowner’s Guide to Bringing Houseplants Inside for Winter |
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Preparing Vegetable Seeds for Storage: Fleshy Vegetables
This week in the garden UT Extension Agent Celeste Scott shows how to remove, clean, and prepare cucumber seeds for storage until next spring. This same method works on other fleshy vegetables like melons, zucchini, and eggplant.
Related Videos: Collecting and Saving Vegetable Seeds How to Get True Seed from Your Tomatoes Related Resources: Seed Saving Basics Saving Seed |
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Collecting Wind-Blown Seeds
Wind-blown seeds are often difficult to collect before they are scattered. UT Extension Agent Celeste Scott shows how to use a small mesh bag to contain the seeds until they are finished maturing.
Related Videos: Collecting and Saving Vegetable Seeds How to Get True Seed from Your Tomatoes Related Resources: Seed Saving Basics Saving Seed |
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Harvesting Spring-Grown Cabbage in Late Summer
This week in the garden Peter Richards shows how you can leave spring-planted cabbage on the plant until mid- to late-summer. The bugs may eat some of the outer leaves, but you can peel them off and eat the inside leaves.
Related Videos: Protecting Cabbage, Broccoli, and Cauliflower from Hungry Worms Cabbage Related Resources: Guide to Spring-Planted, Cool-Season Vegetables Cabbage in the Garden |
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Cutting Back Mint
This Week in the Garden we have mint that is trying to escape. Master Gardener John Peterson planted the mint in a pot in the ground to make it easier to contain. He shows how the mint is starting to try to spread and he cuts it back.
Related Videos: Containing Mint in the Garden Planting an Herb Garden Related Resources: Mint in the Garden Herb Gardening |
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Killing Grass Around Blueberries
This week in the garden retired UT Extension Agent shows how to apply sethoxydim (trade name Poast) to kill the Bermuda grass around a blueberry plant. It may take several applications to kill all the grass in this area.
Related Video: Can I eat my blueberries if I treated the soil for ants? Planting Blueberries Blueberry pH Problems Related Resource: Weed Management in Orchards |
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Squash Vine Borer
This week in the garden UT Extension Agent Chris Cooper finds a squash plant that is infected with squash vine borer. He tries unsuccessfully to find the borer and then talks about how to prevent squash vine borers.
Related Videos: Squash Pests Growing Summer Squash Related Resources: Squash Vine Borer Squash vine borer management in home gardens |
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Sifting Soil for Planting Seeds
This week in the garden Jessie Munson from Lichterman Nature Center shows how she sifts soil before planting seeds in it. Sifting removes all the large pieces like wood and rocks from the soil leaving it loose and fluffy, perfect for planting fine seeds.
Related Videos: Propagating Carolina Bushpea Using Scarification Labeling Plant Seedlings Related Resources: Homemade Potting Media Starting Plants From Seed for the Home Gardener |
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Pruning a Rose Bush After a Hard Winter
This week in the garden UT Extension Agent Chris Cooper shows how to prune the dead wood out of rose bush after a hard winter. He also shows how to tell when a branch is alive or dead. He waited until early summer to do the pruning so he could tell for sure what parts of the plant are dead.
Related Videos: Basic Rose Care Rose Bush Pruning Related Resources: Pruning Roses A Quick Guide to Pruning Roses Growing Roses |
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Newspaper Mulch
This week in the garden Peter Richards shows how to use newspaper mulch around plants. Newspaper is free and can be turned back into the soil at the end of the year.
Related Video: Can you put newspaper in your compost pile Related Resources: Yard and Garden: Mulch Mulches for the Home Vegetable Garden |
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When to Remove Dying Daffodil Leaves
This week in the garden UT Extension Agent Chris Cooper removes the spent daffodil leaves that have turned brown and died. He explains how daffodils draw the nutrients from the leaves down into the bulb to get ready to bloom next year. He shows when the leaves are ready to remove.
Related Videos: Planting Coleus, Pentas and Vinca Spring Blooming Bulbs Related Resources: Flowering Bulbs for Tennessee Gardens Spring Flowering Bulbs |
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How Slow-Release Fertilizer Works
Slow-release fertilizer allows you to fertilize plants over several months with only one application. University of Memphis Director of Landscape Joellen Dimond uses slow-release fertilizer to fertilize some basil. She also talks about how it works by releasing fertilizer over time.
Related Videos: Planting Summer Annuals - Coleus, Pentas and Vinca Fertilizer Basics Kinds of Fertilizer Related Resources: Slow-Release Fertilizers for Home Gardens and Landscapes Fertilizing and Watering Container Plants |
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Why to Water After You Plant
Watering after you plant helps settle the soil around the roots of your new plants allowing them to grow. University of Memphis Director of Landscape Joellen Dimond shows how water can help the soil settle and remove air pockets.
Related Videos: Flowers Need Water Checking for Deep Watering Related Resources: Watering Guidelines The Basics of Watering Your Landscape |
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Three Ways to Wipe on Herbicide
This week in the garden UT Extension Agent Chris Cooper shows how to wipe on herbicides to protect desirable plants nearby. He shows how to use a paint brush, a rag, and a sponge to apply glyphosate to Bermuda grass in a strawberry bed. This will kill the Bermuda without harming the strawberries.
Related Videos: Herbicide Modes Of Action Three Common Herbicides How To Wipe On Herbicide Related Resources: Safe Herbicide Use Herbicide Injury to Yard and Garden Plants |
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Fix a Sticky Valve on a Garden Sprayer
This week in the garden Peter Richards shows how to fix a sticky sprayer wand valve. After several years of use garden pump sprayer valves don’t quickly shut off when released. Peter shows how to lubricate the valve with petroleum jelly so it functions like new.
Related Videos: Labeling Garden Sprayers Spreader and Sprayer Calibration |
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Stopping Garden Hose Connection Leaks
This week in the garden Peter Richards shows how to stop hoses from leaking at the connections. Most of the time the washer that seals the connection has fallen out. Peter shows what a replacement washer looks like and how to install it.
Related Videos: Watering Wands and Hose Sprinklers: Tips and Tricks Winterizing Garden Hoses Related Resources: Watering Tips for the Garden, Lawn, and Landscape Home Lawn Watering Guide |
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What to do with Broken Branches on
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Seed Germination Test
This week in the garden UT Assistant Professor of Horticulture Natalie Bumgarner shows how to do a germination test on some old seeds. She puts some seeds in a wet paper towel and puts that in a plastic bag. A week later she can see how many of them germinated.
Related Videos: Making a Seed Planter for Small Seeds Starting Seeds Indoors Related Resources: Procedures for the Wet Paper Towel Germination Test Seed and Seedling Biology |
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Weeds in Plants from the Nursery
This week in the garden UT Extension Agent Chris Cooper pulls some weeds that are growing in pots from the nursery. You want to make sure you pull any weeds in the pots before you plant. This will keep the weeds from the nursery from being introduced into your garden beds.
Related Videos: Nursery Plant Selection Problems to Avoid in Nursery Plants Related Resources: Choosing Healthy Plants Selecting Quality Trees From the Nursery |
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Fixing Volcano Mulch
This week in the garden Extension Agent Chris Cooper shows how to fix volcano mulch around a tree. Landscapers often pile mulch too deep around trees. Mulch should not be up against the tree. You should be able to see the root flairs. Move the mulch away from the tree and spread it out.
Related Video: Volcano Mulch Kinds of Mulch Related Resources: Mulch Mulches Mulching |