Techniques - Page 128 of 198 - Fine Gardening
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How-To
Rooting Tip Cuttings
The benefits of knowing how to propagate plants from tip cuttings are endless. You can make more of your favorite plants for almost no money. You can take cuttings from many tender…
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Introduction to Dividing Perennials
Dividing perennials improves the health of mature plants, and also allows you to increase the number of plants in your garden. In this video, author and instructor Janet Macunovich provides…
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Sowing Seeds
Few gardening pursuits are as rewarding as growing and nurturing your own plants. But growing plants isn't always an easy task. In this video, Alyson Brown, propagation manager at White…
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How to Dig, Divide, and Store Dahlia Tubers
Dahlias have some of the most beautiful flowers of any garden plant available. They appear in every color of the rainbow but blue, and present over a dozen unique forms…
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Seed-Starting Pre-Treat
Cultivated seeds, removed from nature, are removed from the natural processes they would be undergoing in the passage of the seasons and may require artificial stimuli to overcome dormancy. Scarification…
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Collecting Fern Spores
An individual fern can produce spores numbering in the millions, and they're easy to collect from the ones in your yard or even in the wild. The trick is to…
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Drip-Irrigation Basics
Steve Aitken, Fine Gardening's editor at large, explains the components and shows you how to assemble them into a custom system you can deploy to bring water directly to your…
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Kitchen Gardening
A Simple Compost Bin
Composting is one of the best ways to boost your soil, and fall is the season for it. In this video, Patti Moreno, the Garden Girl, talks about the simple…
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How-To
Build a Rain Barrel
The benefits to having a rain barrel are huge. First, water in your rain barrel is not subject to community watering restrictions and has no additives like fluoride or iron…
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How to Buy the Best Plants
Aside from the garden, the nursery is a gardener's favorite place. Walking into a nursery knowing you want to buy some 'Moonbeam' coreopsis is easy. But do you want the…