27 Beginning Gardener Series How to Use Veggies as Ornamental Plants

Garden Basics for Beginners

This is video #27 in my new Beginning Gardening series! I am really excited to share these videos with you. Each video will be released on Sunday and Friday mornings and will take us through June of this year. Wednesday videos will be on other gardening topics.

Here is a list of topics that I will be covering in this series:

Garden Basics for Beginners

1. Why do you want to have a garden?
2. What do you want to grow?
3. Site selection-Climate
4. Site selection-Sun & exposure
5. Site selection-Access
6. Site selection-Soil basics
7. Garden beds Garden Beds-Raised
8. Garden Beds-In Ground
9. Plant selection-Garden Planning
10. Seedlings or seeds? Seed Starting-Purchasing and storing seeds
11. Seed starting-What do you need? Lights and fans , watering, heat
mats, racks
12. Seed Starting-Soil, Mess Containment, Pots
13. Veggies to grow (basics) for spring, summer, fall and winter- Cole
crops, leafy greens
14. Veggies to grow-Herbs and Companion Planting
15. Veggies to grow-Hot peppers
16. How to Transplant Seedlings into Larger Pots
17. Veggies to grow-Peas
18. How to Water Seedlings
19. How to transplant seedlings into the garden and harden off seedlings
20. How to Fertilize Seedlings
21. Veggies to grow-Peppers
22. Veggies to grow-Tomatoes
23. Veggies to grow-Flowers for the garden
24. How to Transplant Cole Crop Seedlings Outdoors
25. How to Transplant Onion Seedlings
26. How to Protect Seedlings From Cold When Planted too Early
27. Edible Ornamental Veggies
28. How to Water Your Seedlings
29. Veggies to grow-Cucumbers
30. Veggies to grow-Melons and squash
31. Veggies to grow-Garlic
32. Soil basics and when you need to fertilize-magic or chemistry
33. Soil basics- Nutrients-Soil Tests
34. Soil basics- Till or no till (different styles of gardening)
35. Soil basics- Compost
36. Soil basics- Mulch
37. Soil basics- Organic
38. Soil basics- Synthetic
39. Watering
40. Watering-By hand and overhead watering
41. Watering-Automatic irrigation
42. Garden Maintenance
43. Garden Maintenance-Weeding
44. Garden Maintenance-Mulch
45. Garden Maintenance-Rotating Crops
46. Controlling Pests- What is IPM
47. Controlling Pests -IPM Basics
48. Controlling Pests -Methods of Control
49. Harvesting
50. Using your harvest