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Collecting and Saving Vegetable Seeds
There are many flowers that can be easily grown from seed. UT Extension Agent Celeste Scott talks about some of the ones she has received, grown, and passed along over the years including castor bean, balsam, snow-on-the-mountain, jewels of opar, celosia, and sulfur cosmos.
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How To Lay Sod
Shelby County Extension Agent Booker T. Leigh shows how to lay sod. Before you lay sod you should kill all the existing grass and weeds using a non-selective herbicide like glyphosate and then till the ground to loosen the soil. This is a great time to amend the soil so get a soil test and lime or fertilize the soil as directed. It is important to choose the correct variety of grass that will thrive in the conditions. In this case, where the grass will be under trees, Royal Zoysia was chosen because it does not require as much direct sun. When sodding in the summer water the ground before laying to cool the soil and help keep the sod moist. Rake out the ground to level it and then lay the sod. Sod is cut in a way that it fits together like a puzzle. Make sure the pieces fit together correctly. In each row the gaps in the sod should be offset from the previous row. This will prevent water channels from developing and washing out the soil. When the sod it all laid, roll the sod to press the roots into the ground to promote good root growth. You can tell if your sod it taking root because it will be difficult or impossible to pick it back up. Keep the sod moist until it has taken root.
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Collecting and Saving Vegetable Seeds
Collecting seeds from vegetable plants at the end of the season is easy and lets you plant your garden next year without having to buy seeds. UT Extension Agent Celeste Scott shows the basics of seed collecting and talks about how to prepare them for storage for the winter. She shows fleshy vegetables like cucumbers, squash, and tomatoes. She also shows seed pod vegetables like beans, peas, and okra. Last of all, she shows corn.
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Garlic
UT Extension Agent and garlic fanatic Lucas Holman talks all about garlic. There are two major types of garlic: soft neck and hard neck. Soft neck garlic is what you usually find in the store. It does not have a flower stalk through the middle of the bulb. It grows best in zones 8 and warmer. Soft neck garlic stores for up to a year. Hard neck garlic has a flower stalk and only keeps for 5-6 months. It grows best in zone 6 and colder. Both kinds can be grown successfully in zone 7.
Garlic is easy to grow. It should be planted in the ground in the fall and harvested early the next summer. It will grow a green stem in the fall and then not do much in the cold of winter. It will begin growing again in the spring. It should be fertilized, but not with nitrogen after April as that will encourage green growth not bulb formation. Lucas harvests his garlic when the bottom leaves have turned brown but there are still 5-6 green leaves on the plant. He bundles the garlic and hangs it in a well-ventilated area out of the sun to dry. After it has dried he cuts off the top and places them in net bags for storage. Related Videos: Cleaning Garlic Planting Garlic Related Resources: Growing garlic in home gardens Garlic Garlic Production for the Gardener |
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Propagating Milkweed
Milkweed can be easily propagated by seed, but you need to do some things before you can plant the seeds to get them to sprout. Jessie Munson from Lichterman Nature Center talks about how to collect the seeds. Then she shows how to prepare the seeds for cold stratification. She also shows how to plant the seeds after stratification.
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Iris
The word iris comes from the Greek god of rainbows – Iris. There are a rainbow of colors of irises available. TSU extension Agent, Joellen Dimond, talks about basic iris care and some of the common kinds of iris. Irises grow from rhyzomes. They have a six-petaled flower: Three lower petals extend horizontally or droop toward the ground (the falls), and three petals stand up in the middle of the bloom (the standards). Falls and standards can be the same color or different colors. Joellen talks about several different kinds of iris including dwarf crested, Louisiana, blue flag, yellow flag, Siberian, roof, and bearded irises. Joellen then shows the correct way to prepare and plant an iris rhizome.
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Herb Garden Mid-Season Care
When herbs grow well there are some things to do in the summer to ensure the herbs continue to produce into fall. Master Gardener John Peterson looks at an herb garden he planted and shows how to prune herbs and talks about herbs that are going to seed.
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Pressing Flowers
Pressing flowers is a great way to preserve beautiful blooms and create works of art. Master Gardener Mary Heim shows how to do it. She says thinner flowers work best. She shows how to arrange the items in a flower press and then apply pressure. After several weeks the flowers will be flat and dry and can be removed and mounted for display. She shows several pressed arrangements she has done with flowers from her yard.
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Trees for Pollinators
When you think of plants for pollinators you don’t often think of trees, but certain tree species support hundreds of kinds of insects. University of Memphis Director of Landscape Joellen Dimond talks about why trees are so beneficial and then gives a list with pictures of the top 18 tree species that support pollinators in North America.
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Pressure Canning Tomatoes
UT Extension Agent Cathy Faust demonstrates how to pressure can tomatoes. To peel tomatoes boil them for two minutes then put them in ice water. The peels will slip off. After chopping the tomatoes to the desired size, simmer them with no additional liquid. Fill the jars with the simmered tomatoes to within ½ inch of the rim. Add citric acid and canning salt, wipe the rim of the jar, and put on the lid finger tight. Place the jar in the pressure canner and process. When done let the canner cool and remove the jars. They should pop as they seal. Canned tomatoes are good for several years.
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How to Care for an Orchid
Orchids require care that is different from other plants. University of Memphis Director of Landscape Joellen Dimond talks about orchid light requirements, watering, fertilizing, and growing media. She also shows how to repot an orchid.
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Beneficial Garden Bugs
Garden expert Tonya Ashworth talks about different kinds of beneficial bugs that you find in the garden. She focuses on predatory bugs: braconid wasp, green lacewing, minute pirate bug, spider, and praying mantis. Each of these bugs feed on another bug that would be considered a garden pest. Some of these beneficials can eat thousands of harmful insects in their lifetime. Tonya talks about what each beneficial bug likes to eat and what you can do to attract each of them to your garden.
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Grass Lawn Alternatives
Director of Landscape at The University of Memphis Joellen Dimond gives some ideas for what to do if you are tired of maintaining your grass lawn. Before you run out and kill your grass you need to determine your needs for landscape. Do you have children that want to play or pets? The options run the gamut in price from an expensive pool to hardscape to bare gravel and mulch to shrubs to meadows. Even without grass there is still maintenance that must be done on any landscape.
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Carbaryl
Carbaryl has been around for a long time. It is the third most used insecticide in the US and is sold under the trade name Sevin. It is an acetyl colanase inhibitor so it disrupts the nervous system if the insect. Insects can absorb or ingest the insecticide so it is very effective on chewing insects who ingest it. Some insects have developed a resistance to carbaryl. Be careful when you use it because it is non-selective and will kill most insects including beneficials like bees. Research and use alternatives that are more targeted to the pest you have.
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Permethrin
Permethrin is a synthetic pyrethroid. It mimics pyrethrin, a natural occurring chemical found in chrysanthemums. It is an acetyl colanase inhibitor so it disrupts the nervous system if the insect. There are many synthetic pyrethroids on the market. It is non-selective so be careful in applications to minimize the effect on beneficial insects. It was first used as a head lice treatment for humans. It has been put on the World Health Organization list of essential medicines because it will kill insects that carry disease. Insects can develop resistance to permethrin.
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