From left: Steve Bender, Kim Todd and Rebecca Sweet
From left: Amy Grisak, Lucy Summers, Steve Hutton and Charlie Nardozzi.
How to Plant Trees, Shrubs and Perennials
Why these videos are so helpful: The right way to put plants in the ground is simple enough, but too often done wrong. And it’s a topic learned best by watching.
Videos: 11 about planting, 3 about replanting.
From left: Melinda Myers and the late, great Cass Turnbull of the nonprofit Plant Amnesty.
How to Prune Spring-Flowering Shrubs
Plants covered: Forsythia, evergreen azalea, rhododendrons, lilac, deutzia, kerria, mockoranage, weigela, viburnum, st. johnswort, redtwig and yellowtwig dogwoods, Virginia sweetspire, quince, spring-flowering roses, and spring-blooming spirea. If you have these shrubs they probably need pruning, and the how-to is NOT intuitive. So watch.
Videos: 8, plus links to more.
From left: Dave Epstein, Paul Tukey and an unnamed expert at Cornell.
Enlightened Lawn Care for Spring
Why these videos are so needed: They start by asking what your lawn REALLY needs this spring? These experts recommend a low-maintenance lawn-care option that saves you time and money and is best for the environment. You can ignore the barrage of ads every spring telling you to “green-up” your lawn.
Videos: 7 about general lawn care (feeding, seeding, etc) and 2 about repairing bare patches. All are for cool-season grasses – fescues, bluegrass, and perennial ryegrass – not warm-season grasses like zoysia.
Edibles
From left: Patrick Dolan, Joe Lamp’l and Trish Boudier.
How to Create a Veg Garden
Topics covered: designing and planning a vegetable garden (10 videos), raised beds of various types (11 videos), and how to grow vegetables in containers (5 videos).
From left: Luke Marion, CaliKim, and Wendy Phan.
How to Support Vegetables Vertically
Plants covered: trellis and other supports for tomatoes (8 videos), cucumbers, melons and squash (8 videos), how to make a trellis (2 videos), other types of support for vegetables (2 videos).
From left: James Prigioni and Nan Sterman.
How to Plant Berries and Fruit Trees
Plants covered: blueberries (5 videos), strawberries (4 videos), raspberries and blackberries (6 videos), planting and growing grapes (5 videos), planting fruit trees (10 videos) and links to more.
