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Cinnamon For Garden Use

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Cinnamon...Yes the powder we all have in our kitchen has practically universal application for use in our garden to stop the growth of harmful fungus that can kill our plants. When planting seeds sprinkle it lightly on top of the seed tray and it will greatly deter Damping Off Disease caused from fungus attacking our seed or young seedlings. Here an Irish gardener uses Cinnamon to combat fungus in her garden.

Damping-off in Young Seedlings

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Propagating plants from seeds or growing plants on from seedlings is one of the most serious challenges that gardeners face particularly in the cool lower light conditions in the spring. This video discusses the plant disease commonly called “damping off” and ways to avoid it. It is a disease that can plague both beginning gardeners and professional growers. Damping-off in Young Seedlings

The Beechgrove Garden ep.7 2016

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The Beechgrove Garden ep.7 2016 This post was moved here: https://video-clump.com/2018/02/15/ beechgrove-garden-episode-7-2016 Carole was in the Greenhouse for the final part of her series on windowsill gardening. This time it was all about growing microgreens –full of proteins and vitamins making a healthy addition to snacks and sandwiches, also the latest trend with chefs. Last week Carole recommended getting an electric propagator to get seedsstarted but the alternative is an unheated propagator which could simply sit on the windowsill. Any kind of vegetable seed can be harvested as a microgreen and they too are very easy to grow. These are not like the sprouting seeds,here you wait till they have grown to seedling stage, cut them off with scissors - this is thepart you eat. One example is a radish which can be sown in a tray of compost, covered with more compost and placed in an unheated propagator. This canthen be harvested for its leaves in a few weeks’time

The Beechgrove Garden 2016 ep.6

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This post was moved here: https://video-clump.com/2018/02/14/ beechgrove-garden-episode-6-2016 The Beechgrove Garden 2016 ep.6 Carole was in the greenhouse with snow falling all around her with the 2nd of her series on growing productive crops on a windowsill.  This time she was looking at herbs and salads.  Carole suggested that it is well worth investing in an electric propagator to give seeds a boost to aid germination.  To demonstrate, Carole sprinkled some chervil seed onto the top of some compost then sprinkled with more compost.  She then placed the tray into a propagator to give it some bottom heat.  She also featured a new herb called Wasabi Rocket which could easily be grown on the windowsill.

The Beechgrove Garden 2016 ep.5

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This post was moved here: https://video-clump.com/2018/02/12/ beechgrove-garden-episode-5-2016 In the Beechgrove garden, Jim is hoping that the soil is now warm enough to plant tatties in the main veggie plot, while on the decking garden Carole is also planting tatties on a tiny scale. The Beechgrove Garden 2016 ep.5 Fungal Valley Whereas Carole was growing her mushrooms intensively on the window sill, Chris has a bigger project in mind for a damp and deeply shaded area near to the stumpery which he created 3 years ago: a fungal valley for Beechgrove so that we can grow and harvest our own mushrooms outside at Beechgrove. Fungi in the wild occur mostly in wooded areas because of all of the rotting wood and leaf litter, and many fungi have a mutually beneficial association with tree roots. At Beechgrove Chris found an example of these beneficial mycorrhizal fungi in the more wild and unmanaged part of the garden. There are around 15000 species of fungi resident in the UK

The Beechgrove Garden ep.3 2016

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  In this edition of the gardening magazine, Jim investigates digging. He grows two sets of vegetables side by side to compare how digging affects them. Brian Cunningham, head gardener of Scone Palace, is redesigning the alpine garden at Beechgrove, while George takes a tour of 19th-century Braco Castle garden with head gardener Jodie Simpson. Carole was on a mission to save the Mahonia in the calendar border from being pruned by George (after recent week’s pruning frenzy). As George pointed out however, it was flowering right at the top of the plant, so could be encouraged to flower lower down by giving it a prune.   At Beechgrove Jim is always on the look-out for a ploy to trick Mother Nature to extend the growing season. The soil in the main veg plot is too cold and wet to sow seeds or plant into at the moment so Jim wanted to gain some time by planting onions sets (variety ‘Sturon’) into pots. This means that whilst the ground is warming up outside, the onion setts will hav