Garden & Lawn Videos

Four O'Clock flowers are a stunningly beautiful and amazingly fragrant flower for your garden. They are called Four O'Clocks due to their blooms opening early in the morning, late in the evening...

Creating an indoor window garden requires a window, some sunlight and moisture. Make a windowsill garden with expert tips from a gardener in this free video on creating an indoor window garden.

Caring for lupines is easy as long as you try to recreate their natural habitats, such as sandy soil from the beaches. Discover how to care for your lupines with tips from a third-generation...

To care for angel trumpet plants, remember that they are native to South America, which has really warm, lush, moist and shady areas. Let your angel trumpets blossom beautifully with guidance from...

After planting asparagus, it can take up to three or four years to produce asparagus spears large enough to eat. Find out how to care for an asparagus plant with helpful advice from a sustainable...

Fresh produce can be grown in a garden of any size, including a small container garden on a balcony. Find out how to start growing food in any living situation with helpful advice from a...

Avocado plants prefer warm, arid climates, and they do best when planted in rocky soil that drains well. Grow and avocado plant with helpful advice from a sustainable gardener in this free video...

Jalapeno pepper seeds should be planted in late spring or early summer when the ground has substantially warmed up from the winter. Start growing jalapeno peppers with helpful advice from a...

Green pepper plants should not be planted until late spring or early summer, as they grow best in warm weather. Encourage a pepper plant to thrive with helpful advice from a sustainable gardener...

Caring for Anaheim pepper plants requires keeping them in a sunny spot in the garden, making sure the soil drains well and harvesting the peppers as soon as they look ripe. Care for an Anaheim...

Sweet peppers grow best when the seeds are planted in the late spring after the nights have significantly warmed up. Plant pepper seeds in full sun and in well-draining soil with helpful advice...

The best time to plant yellow peppers is in the late spring, and they are easy to start simply from the seed. Sprinkle seeds in a trough of organic composted material with helpful advice from a...

Anaheim peppers can be started from the seed in lat spring when the weather has warmed significantly. Plant Anaheim peppers in a sunny spot in the garden with helpful advice from a sustainable...

When using a tomato cage, it is best to use nylon, rubber bands or dental floss to tie the branches up the cage as they grow taller. Help support tomato plants as they grow with helpful advice...

Sweet potato vines need some sunlight and a trellis, as the vine likes to climb up and attach to something. Plant the eye of a sweet potato in the spring for a fall harvest with helpful advice...

Growing shitake mushrooms requires purchasing the shitake spores before planting them in moist mulch or directly into a log. Grow your own shitake mushrooms in a shady area with helpful advice...

To grow enoki mushrooms, simply plant the fresh mushrooms into shaded soil or purchase enoki spores to grow on tree bark. Start a mushroom garden in moist shade with helpful advice from a...

Morel mushrooms can grow in a plastic bag full of moist leaf cuttings or directly in a moist oak or birch log. Recreate a mushroom's natural growing environment with helpful advice from a...

A great lawn is formed by a number of key ingredients, including water, good soil, fertilizer and sunshine. Learn about watching the pH level of the grass with help from a professional landscaper...

If you are laying down sod, you can fertilize as soon as the sod is laid, but grass that comes from seed should be given six weeks before it's fertilized. Prevent the damage of a new lawn with...

In order to prepare a lawn for seed, start with a light fertilizer, lime and of course the seeds. Get a nice, full lawn in six weeks with help from a professional landscaper in this free video on...

In order to plant a lawn with seed, combine the seed with lime pellets and a fertilizer spreader before watering the lawn. Find out how to get a full lawn in six weeks with help from a...

The easiest way to prevent overseeding of a lawn is by using a spreader in the proper fashion. Learn about using a spreader to keep from overseeding a lawn with help from a professional landscaper...

In order to aerate a lawn, simply take a pitchfork, push it into the ground, wiggle the pitchfork and then pull it up and do it again. Learn about renting machines that will aerate a lawn with...

Grass seed is designed for the local weather conditions, so a warm and dry climate should have lawns that are seeded with grass seeds that are designed for that weather. Learn about seeking help...

Grass will grow faster when fertilizer is used, but water and sunshine also play a large factor in the speed that grass grows. Find out how to use water to compensate for excess fertilizer with...

In order to get rid of thatching grass, simply use a thatching rake to pull the grass towards the body, thus uprooting the grass. Learn about various types of thatching rakes with help from a...

A bald spot on a lawn is often caused by an animal, but it can be fixed by cleaning the area and preparing the soil properly. Find out how to use lime to bring the acid level down with help from a...

Every type of grass requires different fertilizers, and various parts of the country need more fertilizing than others. Research to find out how to fertilize your lawn with advice from a...

Landscape construction consists of patios, pergolas, canopies, gazebos, lattice work, ponds and irrigation. Understand the elements that go into landscape construction with advice from a...

When sharpening a power mower blade, remove the blade from the machine, secure it in a vice, and run the file down the blade in a single direction. Keep mower blades sharp for the best results...

To replace a sprinkler head, dig out around the sprinkler, pull it up gently by hand, remove the damaged sprinkler head, and replace it with a new one. Fix a busted sprinkler head with advice from...

Spreading grass seed can be done using a fertilizing wand set on the lowest setting to sprinkle a very thin, even layer across an entire lawn. Be sure to pick out the right grass seed for the...

Sharpening a push mower blade with a file can be tricky, so taking it to a lawn mower repair shop is always recommended. Avoid losing a finger when sharpening mower blades with advice from a...

Thatching a lawn requires utilizing a thatching rake to comb through the grass and weed out dead, unwanted material. Thatch a yard every other year or so with advice from a professional landscaper...

A manual lawn edger is perfect for creating a crisp edge around a flowerbed. Cut into sod using this handy tool with advice from a professional landscaper in this free video on lawn maintenance.

Most plants can be started from clippings, which involves taking a long stem where it meets a new leave line, dipping the tip in honey or peanut butter and planting it in a high-quality moist...

In the winter, it is a good idea to prepare plants to be indoors until the following growing season by hacking them down, digging them up and keeping them dormant for a few months. Winterize...

Outdoor plants can be broken into basic large families, such as trees, shrubs, bushes, flowers, edibles and grasses. Understand the basic rules of identifying plants with helpful information from...

Transplanting involves cutting into the ground at a large radius around the plant before pulling out the root ball and replacing it quickly to its new location. Move plants from one spot to...

The best way to protect outdoor plants during the winter is to cover them with a plastic tarp or a sheet to keep them as insulated as possible. Learn other ways to preserve fragile plants with...

Pruning outdoor plants every year is a great way to encourage new growth for the following growing season. Prune back one-third of a plant each winter or early spring with helpful information from...

When growing plants outdoors, be sure to pay attention to each plant's condition requirements, such as the amount of sunlight and the quality of the soil. Plan out the various plants in a garden...

Planting outdoors requires considering the year-round climate, the placement of the various plants and the amount of sunlight that reaches different parts of the yard. Cluster similar plants...

A few natural ways to get ride of pesky beetles in an outdoor garden include hosing down the beetle-infested plants, spraying the bugs with a mixture of water and oil, and sprinkling...

To make sure that plants stay watered while on vacation, set up a timed sprinkler system, add a thick layer of topsoil to all of the beds, or simply hire a neighbor to come over every couple of...

In order to prepare soil for seeding, the most important factor is to simply get a good potting soil mix. Make sure to get healthy and aged soil, as opposed to raw manure, with help from a...

Seeds grow on their own time, and al they need is heat, moisture and light, but they can grow more quickly with more heat. Find out how to make a miniature greenhouse to promote seed growth with...

Alliums bloom in the late spring, so it's best to start growing them in the beginning of spring by spreading them out in the soil and covering them up with an inch of top soil. Learn about misting...

In order to grow mullein from seed, start them in the soil and cover them up with about one to two inches of soil before misting them. Find out how mulleins can be started in the summer with help...