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Organic Vertical Gardening: How to Start Vegetable Seeds

What’s the big deal with planting seeds? Seems simple enough. Just put your seeds in the dirt, water and hope. Or, you can do it the right way and have exactly what you want: germinating seeds, glorious plants and perfectly grown organic vegetables. He... Read >

How to Plant a Three Sisters Garden

The corn serves as a pole for your beans to climb. Corn requires nitrogen to grow; Beans absorb nitrogen from the air and convert it to a form that other plants like corn can use. The beans climb up the corn stalk an provide extra rigidity preventing the... Read >

Night Shade Plants: Potato and Tomato

Tomatoes are actually a fruit. If you haven’t already figured it out, tomatoes are my favorite plants to grow. Tomato seeds are fragile and need to be started indoors, then, planted in your garden in mid-spring. Whenever you see a cluster of flowers gro... Read >

Organic Vegetable Gardening: Tomato Planting Tips

I am slightly obsessed with tomatoes. In fact, I grow about 25 different varieties of tomatoes each year. In this video, I am joined by my friend and fellow tomato enthusiast, Urban Gardener, William Moss. Check us out; we’re talking about the dos and d... Read >

How to Build a Raised Bed – Organic Gardening

I fell in love with the idea of raised bed gardening when I quickly learned how unreliable city soil can be. This video is all about getting you started with raised beds, including how to build your own. I will also demonstrate how to build a hoop house. ... Read >

Healthy Organic Soil and the Importance of pH

A gardener’s job is never done! It’s our job as gardeners to nurture our soil, which leads to healthy plants, healthier food, and the healthiest people. In my experience the key to success has been knowing everything I needed to know about my soil; most ... Read >