Plant your Corner Garden

Series Summary

Landscaping your front or back yard doesn't have to be a professional job. Home gardens provide a tranquil area for reflection and relaxation. Tending and enjoying a garden can lower blood pressure, ease anxiety, and provide diversion in which to ponder various thoughts that have been lingering in your subconscious. Even if you don't have much yard space, planting a small corner garden is a simple task you could complete in just an afternoon.

In this series of free gardening videos, expert gardener Jose Zuniga shows you how to plant a small corner garden in your yard, complete with flowers and a palm tree. He offers advice on planning where to place your garden for optimal sunlight and growth, what sorts of gardening tools and supplies you'll need and where to buy them, and how to prepare the soil for planting. Jose demonstrates how to transplant a palm tree, offers planting spacing tips, and advice on mulching and maintaining your corner garden. The gardening information in these free online videos will help you to enjoy your garden and the therapeutic and rewarding feelings you can get from tending a garden.

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name Jose Seniga, I'm representing expertvillage.com. Well today basically our project consist of a corner palm garden. Well the reason why I selected this is because in this neighborhood palms are everywhere. My favorite one happens to be the Mexican Fan Palm, also known as the Washingtonia Robusta. You know what? Not only is it tall, it's elegant, it grows between 2 to 3 stories high and you know what? It's low maintenance as well, I love that. Another thing, it's going to survive the heat, it enjoys the sun, any climate it's a survivor and it'll survive just about any type soil as well. Also what we're going to do is we're going to beautify it with a flower bed of Vincas. Vincas are known to enjoy the full sun as well and they love that torchure as well when it comes to soil. We're going to go step by step, where to purchase it, the selection of the palms and you know one thing you have to consider is that you buy the baby ones, they only grow between 6 to 1 feet per year. So one thing to consider as well and I'm going to show you how to fertilize it, how to maintain it throughout the year and like I said, it's very low maintenance, so come on let's enjoy this project."