Fall Gardening

UNL Extension Educator John Fech shows us how and when to plant a fall garden If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

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Want A Quick And Easy Tomato Ladder?

Tomato support system that’s easy, inexpensive for the average organic garden or vegetable garden. One ladder (build it yourself) and 4 cement blocks – your garden support is done.

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Keeping Bugs Off Your Gladiolas

Thrips, also known as thunderflies, thunderbugs, storm flies, and corn lice, feed on a large variety of sources both plant and animal by puncturing them and sucking up the contents.  They are pests no matter what you call them. In this video you’ll see what they can do to gladiolas that will make any gardener [...]

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Giant Tomatoes – Almost A Record

Many of us are starting to harvest tomatoes from our gardens and greenhouses now.  What a fabulous time of year this is. Being able to grow these beautiful vegetables (okay, I know they are actually in the fruit family but, let’s not split hairs over this) in your own backyard is one of the true [...]

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Lawns To Edible Landscapes

In this video, Patti Moreno reveals some options for your yard instead of just lawns.  Transforming your yard from lawns to flower beds, shrubs and trees can be so much nicer to enjoy and better for the environment with less use of fertilizers, pesticides and fuel for those lawn mowers, trimmers and blowers. There is [...]

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Gardening…………?

senn asked: Plz Give me important tips…..some necessary points which must be taken care of while gardening!!!! Early thanks to all………! thnx all for ur kind suggestions..these might help me in my gardening process….!!! Thanks M A N for taking the pain of searching a related website..thnks again!

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What are the best plants for gardening in Arizona?

? Erin ? asked: I want to start gardening but I am not so sure what is best for the climate here in Arizona.

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How to get savvy with gardening?

reader.erin asked: Every time I buy a houseplant or look something up that’s related to any kind of gardening I get completely lost in all the terminology, latin names, etc. I’d like to get better at gardening and growing things without having to get my degree in horticulture. Are there any sources (websites/books) for beginners [...]

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Do you have a book recommendation about Container Gardening for Vegetables?

mom23boys asked: I’m a novice gardener and I’m interested in starting a vegetable garden next year, but would need to do it in containers. Do you have any book recommendations for container gardening? I’m also looking for suggestions on how to get started and what would be easy to grow in containers. Thanks!

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Is gardening with tires bad for the environment?

MoodyGem asked: I have read many articles that suggest using old tires for container gardening. My father is considering making a vegetable garden out of tires. Does the tire pollute the soil and there fore the vegetables? I it is bad to burn tires.. Should I be concerned about the quality of the vegetables? Have [...]

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