LEARN TO GROW VEGATABLES IN A CONTAINER! That’s correct. This DVD shows you how. You can do it. Even if you have never been able to grow anything. Follow these step-by-step instructions for preparing, planting, care and feeding of your own private garden. It’s that easy. This DVD is beautifully shot and edited so there is no step that isn’t shown. UNIQUE PRODUCT. NO ONE ELSE HAS THIS MATERIAL.

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The Essential, Step-By-Step Videoguide to Preparing, Growing and Caring for a variety of Container Plants, including Flowers, Trees, Shrubs, Herbs and Vegetables!

If lack of space is the only reason you’re not enjoying your own plants, fruits and vegetables, then Container Gardening is the answer! Container Gardening introduces instant color, fragrance and texture to your home, all with very little maintenance! Best of all, apartment and condo dwellers with limited space or those with limited physical abilities can enjoy fresh flowers, vegetables and herbs grown by their own hands! Whether you want an attractive display of colorful flowers in a window box or a beautiful green tree on a deck or balcony, the possibilities of Container Gardening are endless!

: Advantages of Container Gardening : Varieties of Containers : Make Your Own Container! : Container Selection and Preparation : Soil Preparation : Choosing Plant Varieties : Bringing it All Together : Easy Care & Maintenance

Container Gardening brings the beauty of gardening to everyone!

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For the beginner to the seasoned pro – Master Gardener Rebecca Kolls will help you learn and understand everything you need to know about gardening. Available for the first time, this DVD contains the most popular segments on container gardening from the TV show Rebecca’s Garden.

Chapters
1. Intro
2. All About Pots
3. Clay vs. Plastic Containers
4. Planting In Large Pots
5. Caring For Container Plants
6. Wonderful “Out Of The Box” Planting Designs
7. Evergreen Window Boxes
8. Planning Pots With Designer Flair
9. Performing Plants In Pots At The Denver Botanic Garden
10. Growing Baby Greens In Whiskey Barrels
11. Paperwhites For Holiday Gifts
12. Hanging Baskets For Winter
13. Fabulous Fall Designs In A Pot
14. Making An Old English Trough
15. Painting Terra Cotta Pots
16. Painting Designer Pots
17. Easy Multi-tiered Pot Of Plants
18. Re-potting House Plants
19. Planting Bulbs Indoors
20. Houseplant Containers
21. Pots Of Potted Plants
Bonus Chapters
22. Turning A Rusted Watering Can Into A Container
23. Spicy Pecans
24. Closing

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Perfect for pruning or weeding jobs, the Fiskars Kangaroo 30-gallon gardening container holds itself open, freeing your hands for work. The Kangaroo’s unique spring design springs up to a 22-inch diameter, 30-gallon capacity, just waiting to be filled with weeds, pruned branches, or raked leaves. When you’re done, the container can be collapsed and stored easily in a compact, ready-to-hang 3-inch stack. The heavy-gauge vinyl construction is tear and mildew resistant, and the Kangaroo fits standard 30-gallon garbage can liners. The container weighs just 4-1/2 pounds. It is covered by a 2-year warranty.

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The Fiskars HardShell Kangaroo Container has the same unique pop-up design of the standard Kangaroo Bag, which holds itself open to free both hands for gathering and loading. This collapsible, 30-gallon container is perfect for yard waste and debris collection. Its HardShell bottom prevents your Kangaroo from tearing as you drag heavy loads across gravel and pavement. Holes positioned in the HardShell bottom allow for ventilation and water drainage. It has a unique coiled internal skeleton that creates a sturdy container. The Kangaroo’s durable polyvinyl and polyester construction makes it tear-, UV-, and mildew-resistant. The container also has cushioned handles to make carrying a load more comfortable, and can be used with or without a standard trash bag. The HardShell Kangaroo Container features a unique toggle-and-loop closure system that’s easy to use. This bag features a convenient dump handle allowing for easy disposal of its contents. When expanded, the container measures 28 inches high with a 22-inch diameter and weighs 4-1/2 pounds. It is covered by a 2-year warranty.

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Next Saturday, roots community garden will host a workshop entitled “low-cost container gardening.” Gardening in containers is a great way to economically grow vegetables, have access to land or space for a home garden.

In this workshop, participants will learn:

* The benefits of container gardening.

* How to prepare the ground.

* What types of containers work best.

* How to maintain plants in full blossom.

This class can be taught in English and Spanish, according to the stakeholders.

When? 18.September, Saturday, 10: 00-11: 30 pm

Where? roots community garden at North Oxnard United Methodist Church, 2300 W. Gonzales road, Oxnard

Instructor: Katerina Friesen and Eric Humel, community garden roots personal educators

Workshop cost: free, but please register seedling plants and to take further by contacting with us, because the first 20 participants receive a container and a boy.

To register, contact Katerina the communityrootsgarden@gmail.com or the (805) 616-2326.

Visit www.communityrootsgarden.org for more information.

This story is contributed by a member of the Ventura community and neither Ventura County Star confirmed yet affiliated

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With their colorful leaves, sculptural shapes, and simple care, succulents are beautiful yet forgiving plants for pots. If grown in containers, these dry-climate jewels-which include but are not limited to cacti-can be brought indoors in winter and so can thrive anywhere in the world.

In this inspiring compendium, the popular author of Designing with Succulents provides everything beginners and experienced gardeners need to know to create stunning container displays of exceptionally waterwise plants. The extensive palette includes delicate sedums, frilly echeverias, cascading senecios, edgy agaves, and fat-trunked beaucarneas, to name just a few. Easy-to-follow, expert tips explain soil mixes, overwintering, propagation, and more.

Define your individual style as you effectively combine patterns, colors, textures, and forms. Discover how top designers interpret the dramatic options, in ideas ranging from exquisite plant-and-pot combinations to extraordinary topiaries and bonsai. Expand your repertoire with plump-leaved plants that resemble pebbles, stars, and undersea creatures. Short on space? Create vertical gardens and hanging baskets, and use daisylike rosettes in wall displays.

Each of the more than 300 photographs offers an inspiring idea. A-to-Z descriptions cover 350 of the best succulents, plus companion plants. Whether your goal is a gorgeous potted garden for a sunny windowsill or outdoor living area-or simply making great gifts-this is a comprehensive primer for creating vibrant, living works of art.

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Linda M. Danko is potty about plants. In fact, all your plants are sealed.

That’s how this Purdue master gardeners turn your yard into a series of adventurous gardens, to inspire your Hammond neighbours.

“I love the fact that my garden brings joy to children, how to and from school go,” said Danko. “Find the small statues and dolls in under the flowers you… just makes me smile.”

  Danko spends approximately $ 1,000 to new plants every year. Only stores and replants your 10,000 Shamrock lights every year.

“I live with my sister and there is no place for storing things over the winter,” said Danko. The clovers, I cut back, and rinse the onions and winter save.”It caused other lamps, purchase of new plants and shrubs annually friends and neighbours because she enjoys every spring.”

Every container Garden features adorable dolls and statues according to themed and eingerichtet. The “Children” garden, steals shops found at resale.”I bought the great Raggedy Ann doll for a dollar and then the clothes for you in infants wear found.” Danko said.

The “fragrant” garden is of course ab
loom with aromatic herbs and the clovers dominate the “Irish” garden. Other attractions include the “ever flourishing” and “whimsical” gardens.

“” Behind the garage is the community neighborhood Garden, “said Danko.”I have very good earth is and neighbors bring plants that either don’t care or just want to share.”Everyone enjoys this Stelle.Es is a few plants also I can’t identify.”

A garden in the Miller Gary is very important, Danko.Das planted the healing Garden, you and their grand-daughters for daughter Linda Grunstein, fight against cancer.

“” Mean granddaughters Kira, the 17 and Helena, 15 wanted to help make this special garden”,”said Danko.”I have healing gardens for other friends and family with cancer.”

Grunstein relaxes and meditated in your garden, a soothing blend of herbs, Impatiens and Begonien.Ihre daughters, water and care for the fragrant OASIS.

Danko has a hesitant gardener, a piece of advice for all.

“If an attachment with really grow want to bring a child it reproduction.an never fails.”

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For the beginner to the seasoned pro – Master Gardener Rebecca Kolls will help you learn and understand everything you need to know about gardening. Available for the first time, this DVD contains the most popular segments on container gardening from the TV show Rebecca’s Garden.

Chapters
1. Intro
2. All About Pots
3. Clay vs. Plastic Containers
4. Planting In Large Pots
5. Caring For Container Plants
6. Wonderful “Out Of The Box” Planting Designs
7. Evergreen Window Boxes
8. Planning Pots With Designer Flair
9. Performing Plants In Pots At The Denver Botanic Garden
10. Growing Baby Greens In Whiskey Barrels
11. Paperwhites For Holiday Gifts
12. Hanging Baskets For Winter
13. Fabulous Fall Designs In A Pot
14. Making An Old English Trough
15. Painting Terra Cotta Pots
16. Painting Designer Pots
17. Easy Multi-tiered Pot Of Plants
18. Re-potting House Plants
19. Planting Bulbs Indoors
20. Houseplant Containers
21. Pots Of Potted Plants
Bonus Chapters
22. Turning A Rusted Watering Can Into A Container
23. Spicy Pecans
24. Closing

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Earwigs their Habits and Organic Control

Earwigs are beetle-like insects about 3/4" long and reddish-brown. The insect has a prominent pair of forcep-like cerci at the rear of the body. Earwigs are white after they moult, but become darker as their external skeleton hardens. The nymphs disperse from the brood cell in early July.

Earwigs are primarily scavengers (dead insects and rotting plants). Some species are predators and some species will emit a foul odor. Earwigs are elongate, flattened insects, ranging from light red-brown to black and are easily recognized by their forcep-like appendages (pincers) on the end of the abdomen. The forceps (cerci) are unequal in length in the males.

Earwigs are insects belonging to the order Dermaptera. Most earwigs feed on decaying plant matter but some species are predatory and feed on a variety of other insects. Earwigs are attracted to outdoor lighting. Earwigs are unwelcome guests in most everyone?s garden or home. These three-quarter-inch- long, reddish brown insects look particularly formidable, with their rear pincers and quick movements.

Earwigs are protected during the day when they are beneath debris or below the soil surface.

For their organic control emulsifiable concentrates or wettable powders can be used with good results.

Earwigs are members of the insect Order Dermaptera and range in size from extremely tiny to a couple of inches long. They are also known to give off a bad smell. To keep them out of your home, caulk and repair spaces and cracks around the outside of your home.

Females lay clusters of eggs in crevices or burrows and guard them while keeping them neat and clean. This degree of maternal care is uncommon among insects.

Eggs of the first brood hatch in 70 days after being laid because of the cool spring temperatures and eggs laid in late spring or summer take only about 20 days to hatch. Egg laying can take place twice per year (spring and summer).

Earwigs live for approximately one year, but most often the males die during the winter months. Eggs hatch in about 17 days, unless it is near winter. If the weather is getting cold, the eggs won’t hatch until the next Spring, when the temperature is warm again.

Mulches, grass clippings, and leaf litter often provide the decaying organic matter they need to survive. Mulched flower beds and compost pits are also a prime habitat. Chemical treatments in areas where the earwigs breed are most effective.

Trapping is an effective, easy and low-tech way to reduce earwig populations. Rolled up newspapers or corrugated cardboard, low-sided cans such as tuna cans filled with oil, burlap bags, boards, an 8-10 inch piece of garden hose and a bamboo tube can all be used as traps.

Traps can be of various designs but should produce dark hiding areas that the earwigs will seek out for daytime shelters. Rolled corrugated cardboard can be very effective, as can rolled or crumpled newspapers. Traps can be made from timber 12”x15” raised off the the ground on 1” runners.

Insecticides available include carbaryl (Sevin), cyfluthrin, permethrin and several more. Most of these insecticides are available from garden centres and chemists.

Insecticidal soaps and diatomaceous earth formulations may also be effective where they will contact earwigs directly. It may be necessary to repeat applications at regular intervals.

Choose one which says on the label that it is suitable for crawling insects including earwigs and has a residual life (remains active for a long period of time).

Earwigs were so named because of the erroneous belief that they sometimes creep into human ears. They are completely harmless to humans but are known to transmit virus diseases that affect plants.

Earwigs undergo a type of development known as incomplete metamorphosis, in which the nymphs progress through a series of moults. The stages between moults are known as ‘instars’. Earwigs have wings but they are rarely used to fly. Earwigs are only normally active in darkness, and at the start of the night they begin their search for food and shelter.

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