Aug 302013
The Complete Gardener: Great Gardening Tips
Prepare to be amazed as host Steve Brookes guides you around the garden in this fun and informative DVD. He’ll show you a whole host of money-saving, innovative tips for growing healthier plants and tackling many common garden problems. Brookes will shows you how to use vacuum cleaner fluff as a superb tomato feed, banish cats from borders with a teabag and a can of muscle spray, stop slugs and snails in their tracks with a handful of horsehair, and much, much, more! BONUS FEATURE: Plot-2
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“In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of…,
TOMATOES!” At least my thoughts are turning to planning and tilling and planting in my garden. O, and I apologize to Alfred, Lord Tennyson for slightly altering the above line from his poem “Locksley Hall”. After a snowy and long winter, I’m anxious to put away the snowblower and get out the rototiller. This delightful and humorous DVD helped to chase away the blues.
Steve Brookes takes the viewer on a mini-tour of his small yet abundant patio garden, which is loaded with containers overflowing with flowers and vegetables. How does he do it? Well, you learn about getting the most from your garden using practical, inexpensive tips presented by the upbeat, funny Brookes. Little asides thrown out in typically dry British humor are entertaining and informative.
Some tips:
-Pour a half-teaspoon of table salt into the center of a dandelion plant and the morning dew will help it kill the weed down to the root.
-Sugar and borax, mixed in equal parts, will help rid you of ants by first eliminating the Queen, so that the workers are thrown into confusion and then can be taken care of with ant powder.
-A grated bar of handsoap will keep squirrels from digging up your crocus bulbs without harming the animals.
-Clean the dust from houseplant leaves with a cottonball dipped in beer (I don’t think the plants will mind if all you have in the fridge is Lite Beer.)
There’s also a segment on picking and cooking your veggies with celebrity chef Peter Osbourne. What a tasty bonus!
I highly recommend this excellent DVD.
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|unusual techniques; fast paced; a lot of info,
i have used several of these tips with good success. similar to his VCR tapes he uses for a homemade scarecrow, i use stainless steel bowls and pot covers for sun reflection in order to scare away birds. he didn’t mention vitamin-B1 (he uses aspirin), another reviewer did on a different product; is it really helpful for developing good roots?
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|great gardening tips,
I learned some new tips and liked the way it was presented in an upbeat way and had some different tips that you would have nevered thought of by yourself.
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