YouTube: How to Repot Lemongrass
Our latest YouTube video shows you step-by-step how to repot lemongrass plants that have become sad and overgrown. Fix your root-bound pots and get ready for abundant growth.
YouTube: A Container Garden Glow Up with Vego Gardens – Part 2
Our container garden glow up continues in our latest YouTube video. This week: irrigation, filling the beds, and transplanting overgrown, sad container plants into the new planters.
YouTube: A Container Garden Glow-Up with Vego Gardens – Part 1
In our latest YouTube video, our neglected hodgepodge of pots was waterlogged and root-bound. Christy shares this fantastic upgrade to Vego Garden planter beds.
Revitalize your mint pot and bring it back to life.
YouTube: How to Revitalize Your Mint Pot – Don’t Replace It, Refresh It!
Every year in winter our mint pot starts to looks sad, dormant and, let's face it, dead. But if you look closely there is evidence that it is still alive.
YouTube: Revitalizing, Re-Potting Edible Perennials
This week on the Gardenerd YouTube channel, we share tips for re-potting edible perennials like artichokes for continued success.
YouTube: Grow Artichokes – Not Aphids
This week, as our artichokes start to send up signs of life, we share our tricks for how to grow artichokes - not aphids. Christy shares her tips for choosing whether to grow in the ground, containers or raised beds. She also gives you tips on how to keep aphids off your artichokes as they begin to produce.
Podcast: Grow Bag Gardening with Kevin Espiritu
Our guest this week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast, we chat with Kevin Espiritu of Epic Gardening.
YouTube: Basic Drip Irrigation for Container Gardens
A lot of new gardeners started their Coronavirus gardens in containers, so here's a helpful video on how to set up basic drip irrigation for containers and small spaces. Drip irrigation is like LEGOs; you can make any system you want if you have all the parts.
Ask Gardenerd: Preventing Compacted Soil in Pots
Here's a cool question that came into Ask Gardenerd this week: "Hi Christy, When transplanting plants grown in pots, I usually find large sections of soil that are dry and hard, often near the bottom, but not always. I've tried pushing small sticks into the soil to create a channel for water to follow, but it hasn't helped significantly. Do you have any suggestions on how to keep soil in pots watered evenly? Thanks, Jeff Bremer" Solutions for Compacted Soil…
Re-purpose any container as a planter
ReStore / Repurpose a Garden Planter
We usually leave crafts to Martha Stewart, but this week we were invited to teach a class at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore to show people how to turn just about anything into a garden planter. It's simple, just think outside the planter box. A walk down the isles of Habitat's ReStore was all it took to find household items that could be repurposed as a container. This amazing organization removes construction materials from homes as they are being demolished…