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Getting Started with a New Yard
When you move you get a new yard which you may want to change to suit your needs. Assistant Professor of Residential and Consumer Horticulture Natalie Bumgarner explains the things you need to do to learn about your new yard and what to account for in planning changes. She talks about analyzing soil, drainage, plants, and more to determine what will grow best.
Related Videos: Soil Testing Landscape Planning Choosing the Right Plant for Your Flowerbed Related Resources: Soil Testing - University of Tennessee Perennial Gardening Developing a Home Landscape Plan |
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Plants to Avoid Around Pets
There are many plants that are dangerous or toxic to dogs and cats. TSU Extension Agent Joellen Dimond goes over some of the more common plants you may have in your house or landscape. Joellen lists annuals, perennials, fruits and vegetables, trees, and vines that pets should not eat.
The list of poisonous plants Joellen referenced is available at the ASPCA website Related Videos: What has happened to my 2-year-old rosemary? Is this the dog? How do I keep cats out of my container garden? Related Resources: Pet Friendly Gardening 10 Garden Plants That Are Toxic to Pets Toxic Plants |
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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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Garden Fertilizer Math
How do you know how much fertilizer to spread on your yard? You will probably need to do some math. Retired UT Extension Agent Mike Dennison shows how to figure out how big your yard is and then do the math to determine how much fertilizer to spread. He gives an example and walks through the steps.
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Building a Rain Barrel
Rain barrels can catch and store water off your roof for use in the garden. Tonya Ashworth from Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Memphis, Tennessee shows how to build a rain barrel. She starts with a used 55-gallon plastic drum. She shows how to cut a hole in the top to catch the water from a downspout. She also shows how to install a hose valve. She talks about how to keep mosquitoes from breeding in the water and how to use the water.
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Common Tree Bugs
There are many kinds of bugs that can infest your trees. Retired UT Extension Agent Mike Dennison identifies some of the most common in the Southeast United States. He talks about bagworms, fall webworms, peachtree borer, and stinkbugs. He also talks about how to control them in your trees.
Related Videos: Tree Borers Bagworms Related Resources: Control of Common Pests of Landscape Plants Tree and Shrub Pests |
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Building a Terrarium
Terrarium Artist Nancy Morrow shows how to build a terrarium. She shows the rocks, charcoal, moss and soil in the bottom and talks about the importance of each. Then she shows how to plant plants and talks about why she chose those plants. She also adds non-plant elements including stones, petrified wood, and figurines, and gives advice on them. When she is done she talks about the different ways to cover a terrarium and how often to water.
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Building a Grow Light
Building a homemade grow light stand is cheap and easy. It will cost about $26. You will need an 8 foot 2x4, 8 screws, a couple wood scraps, and a fluorescent light fixture. Master Gardener Tom Mashour shows how to put it together. Grow stands provide the light seedlings need to grow before it gets warm enough to put them outdoors in the spring. They can also be used to provide light to plants you bring in for the winter.
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Finding Good Gardening Advice Online
There are many internet sites that have bad or misleading gardening information. UT Extension Horticultural Specialist Carol Reese talks about how to find the good information.
Her first piece of advice: be wary of sites that are trying to sell you something. They may not be telling you the whole truth. National and big box store websites often have information that does not apply to your area or climate. Carol also recommends going to .edu sites where there is information backed up by scientific research. There is a problem even at a .edu site: the publication you are looking at may be old and out of date. Check web sites from several different states to make sure there is a consensus as to what to do. Another good place to go are the web sites of professional organizations. They have an interest in giving you good information. Along the same lines there are many large plant societies that focus on one species. They are looking to provide accurate information to help their members and others who have in interest in that plant. Related Videos: Gardening Resources Gardening Ergonomics Related Resources: Finding accurate information on the Internet Criteria to Evaluate the Credibility of WWW Resources |
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How a Tree Works
Certified Arborist Wes Hopper explains the basics of how trees work. Trees use photosynthesis to convert nutrients into sugars for the tree to use. Wes also explains how the vascular system in the tree transports water and nutrients from the roots up to the leaves, and the sugars from photosynthesis from the leaves to the other parts of the tree. Wes shows the different layers of a tree trunk and talks about what each layer does. He talks about the different kinds of roots and what they do. Wes also talks about how trees react to high summer heat.
Related Videos: Translocation Encouraging Tree Feeder Root Growth Planting a Tree Related Resources: Tree Physiology Trees The Cornell Guide for Planting and Maintaining Trees and Shrubs |
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The Worst Weeds
What are the worst weeds in your garden? Retired UT Extension Agent Mike Dennison goes over several lists of the worst weeds and throws in some weeds of his own.
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Worm Composting
Bill Abresch from Happy Daze Worm Farm talks about worm composting basics. Worms break down organic matter in the soil. They also produce worm castings which is nutrient rich. You can feed them with the same scraps you would put in a compost pile. Bill talks about how he starts a worm colony, feeds them and then gathers the castings to put on his plants. Worm castings are very high in bacteria which benefit plants when put into the soil.
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Organic Gardening
Gardening Expert Tonya Ashworth talks about organic gardening in the home garden. There is no single definition for organic gardening. Organic gardening in the home garden is trying to grow food using all natural products including not using synthetic pesticides. It may be difficult to control insects and diseases when growing things organically. Because of this diseases need to be prevented because they are difficult to cure. For example, mulch can help prevent blight on tomatoes by keeping the fungus spores in the soil from splashing on the lower leaves. Growing a disease resistant variety will also help. Crop rotation can reduce disease pressure. Tonya shows some organic products that can be used including: insecticidal soap, BT, horticultural oil, neem oil, sulfur, Pyrethrin, diatomaceous earth.
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Viburnum
TSU Extension Agent Joellen Dimond talks about viburnum. There is allot of variety within viburnum. Some viburnum are shrubs, but others can grow as large as a tree. Depending on the type, they are deciduous, evergreen, or semi-evergreen. There are several things all viburnum do: they bloom in the spring with white or pink flowers, they also have red fruit that turns to purple if it stays on the plant. The berries are good food for birds. Viburnum likes full sun but will grow in a fairly shady location with a reduction in blooming. They are very tolerant of wet soils, but they do not like wet feet.
Joellen talks about several varieties of viburnum that she likes including David Viburnum (Viburnum davidii), which is a smaller plant; Korean spice viburnum (Viburnum carlesii) with fragrant flowers; Doublefile Viburnum (Viburnum plicatum tomentosum) which produces many berries; and leather leaf viburnum (Viburnum rhytidophyllum) which has thick leaves. Related Videos: Pineapple Lily What is This Plant? Allium Related Resources: Viburnum Viburnum Diseases and Insect Pests |
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