Wondering how to plant and grow carrots? Watch and see us try our hand at carrot growing
Planting Carrots, How Eric did it.
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Grow Tomatoes How To & Extend The Tomato Season : GF Video
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Learn how to grow and plant tomatoes and extend the tomato season. Want to plant your tomatoes early? Learn here how to start tomatoes early.
Drip Irrigation System with Soaker Hose – GF Video
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I use this homemade DIY drip irrigation system with soaker hose for my raised vegetable beds. Its easy to build and works great. Watch the video to see our first take on a soaker hose system. The drip irrigation system I built uses copper pipe, which can be expensive, you can also use PVC pipe…
How to build a raised bed for vegetables or flowers GF TV Video
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Build a simple raised bed with this DIY video. With this raised bed plan we show you how to make raised vegetable or flower beds without using pressure treated lumber The current raised beds in the garden have been there about 8 years now. So we must have done something right. how unusual… If you…
How to start seeds at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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Learn here how to start seeds in pots or trays with the experts. In the city we live near the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and they showed us some great seed starting tips. By starting your own seeds, you can get a lot more plants for less money, and you get to grow plants that are…
How to transplant raspberry and blackberry bushes
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Transplanting raspberries can be tricky. They don’t like to be transplanted. So watch Gardenfork.tv and see how Eric does it.
Cherry Tomato Pasta Recipe : GF Video
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This is a great recipe for all those cherry tomatoes you have at the end of the season. This dish is sort of a cherry tomato salad over pasta. I don’t think this dish needs cheese, but if you do, go ahead. Cherry Tomato Pasta Recipe 3 pints of cherry tomatoes ( about 4 good…
Eric’s Rhubarb Jam Recipe with Canning How-to GF Video
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Here’s is my rhubarb jam recipe: Part 2: Wow. what fun it was to make and can our own rhubarb jam.Rhubarb Jam Recipe 5 cups of chopped rhubarb 2 cups of sugar 1 cup of water 2 to 4 packets of unflavored gelatin optional: 1 carton of strawberries, chopped 1 20 oz can of…
Video: Cold Frame Plans from Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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Last week we visited with Patty Hulse at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, who showed us the cold frames they built and use throughout the winter. Very nice. Thanks to my friend Tony, ( the man who knits ) for helping with the camera. An episode on knitting is in the works.
Transplanting Plants, How to transplant Hosta plants
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Hostas are ubiquitous in our area. They do well in shade, and we have plenty with all the tall trees around us. These plants are very easy to transplant, so if you have some in one area and would like to have more in another, watch how we do it. I’ve traded hostas with several…
Tomato Hornworms – how to get rid of them – GF Video
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Tomato Hornworms can ruin your tomato plants overnight. Here’s how to get rid of tomato hornworms. If you notice the leaves of your tomato plant have been chewed to the stalk, and it looks like the plant has been stripped of it’s leaves, you have a tomato hornworm infestation. Nothing like coming up to the…
Is Dandelion edible? Dandelion Salad Recipe : GF Video
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You can eat what most people call a weed. Dandelion. Here is another foraging video we did on how to harvest and cook dandelion. Wikipedia has some good info on dandelion, though I don’t agree you have to always cook it down before eating. There are plenty of us who like it raw. If you…
Grow Lettuce Mesclun, Salad Greens GF Video
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Watch this video on how to grow lettuce, mesclun and salad greens and learn how to harvest salad and lettuce. Until the heat of summer knocks them down, loose leaf lettuce is one of those low maintenance pleasures of gardening. There are a ton of varieties of lettuces/salad greens (which we’ll go into in future…
How To Cook Garlic Scapes – GF Video
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You can cook garlic scapes, who knew? Here is a video I made about how to. Scapes taste great, and are easy to cook. Why Cook Garlic Scapes? To me, garlic scapes are free food. You are growing the plant for the bulb, but up come these curled stems with immature flowers on them. You…
Hilling Potatoes
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I have a small patch of potatoes this year, and here we’ll show you how I hilled them. Most of the new potatoes that grow from the seed potatoes will grow above the level of the planted seed, so you have to either plant the seed potatoes in a deep trench that you fill in,…