Summer Garden Tour : GardenFork.TV

Every Summer we make a few GardenFork.TV shows about what’s happening in our yard. Here is our August Garden Tour where I espouse about my new gardening technique, Chaos Gardening . Plant what you want, watch what happens, adjust the next time.

How to make a Window Flower Box : GardenFork.TV

Here’s a plan and video for making a window box for your flowers. Many window boxes fall apart because they are made of wood and wood and soil and water will make the wood rot. So here is Eric’s solution to the Window Box Plans.

The First 50, Highlights from GardenFork.TV

Many of you are new to GardenFork.TV, so I wanted to share with you some clips from the first 50 episodes of GardenFork.TV  .  Haven fun!

Winter Vegetable Gardening with cold frames and plastic mulch

On Christmas Day we went out to the garden to take care of what we should have done in the fall. And we made a video about it. How unusual.
I’m a big fan of Eliot Coleman, and his book, The Four Season Harvest. Its full of a ton of information, one of the [...]

The spring garden tour

I think its good just to walk around the yard and talk about what’s going on, and what we’re thinking of doing. so here you go, come for a walk with us.

Ken Druse' new book Plantrhropology, a review

One of my first gardening books was Ken Druse‘ The Natural Shade Garden, and i’ve been hooked ever since. Here we check out a copy of his new book, Plantrhopology,
Ken also has a neat podcast called The Real Dirt, avail on his site or on iTunes.

How to build a bat house, the Gardenfork way

We need bats, and bats need bat houses. Bat houses are easy to build, even Eric can do it. Watch this bat house video and get the plans from Bat Conservation Intl and build bathouses for these great animals.

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Using a cold frame, plastic mulch, and leaf mulch

Season extenders like cold frames, plastic mulch, and leaf mulch let you get a head start on the season. Watch as Eric talks about getting an early start to your gardening and extending your season into the fall.
do you have some tricks you use to extend the growing season? let us know here:

How to dry apples and fruit

Drying food, especially fruit, is an age-old process that works, AND its a great way to keep the harvest coming into the winter. When you dry your own fruit, you know what’s been added to it, if anything, and its a lot cheaper than those dried fruits in the store.
How do you dry fruit? Please [...]

How to compost your leaves

Composting  your leaves is a great way to add nutrients to your plants. Don’t bag your leaves for the landfill, make compost with your leaves instead. There are a few ways to do this, this is the Eric way. Do you compost leaves, is there something we’re missing from our process? Let us know below: