Gardening video: planting sweet corn

…how does your garden grow? From #communitygarden novices to experienced home kitchen gardeners, farmers market growers, professionals and permaculturists…'tis  the season when thoughts turn to gardening. Claunch-Pinto and Torrance County Extension have been collaborating in gardening workshops. Since the June workshop has been postponed and the series on hiatus with Gene Winn recovering from hip surgery, perhaps we all can help fill the gap here with videos, resources and gardening tips. Topics and recommendations invited.

                                             

Praxxus55712 has uploaded Planting Ambrosia Sweet Corn!

Planting Ambrosia Sweet Corn! by Praxxus55712

In today's episode you and I will plant Ambrosia Sweet Corn. Join me in the garden for a slightly different method of planting corn for a stronger healthier plant. Stay tuned for many updates on this. Hopefully it ends with me grilling fresh corn on the barbeque this summer. 

• Gem corn video provided by: http://www.youtube.com/user/douglasfi2re
• Praxxus on Facebook: http://www.Facebook.com/praxxus55712
• Indoor Gardening Channel: http://www.youtube.com/VoodooGarden

Gardeners also share tips on the Facebook page. Here's an interesting one that reminds us how much gardening is the ultimate recycling:

"I am growing potatoes in horse feed bags. They are doing great so far. I rolled the bag all the way down to start, added straw in the bottom then a layer of soil enriched with compost, planted and now as they grow I am alternating straw and soil."

How Gardening Can Feed the Soul

In The Backyard Parables (Grand Central Publishing, 2013), author Margaret Roach uses her fundamental understanding of the natural world, philosophy, and life to explore the ways that gardening saved and instructed her. In short, she learned how the garden feeds the soul. Roach has harvested thirty years’ worth of backyard parables—deceptively simple, instructive stories from a life spent digging ever deeper—and has distilled them all in this memoir along with her best tips for garden making, discouraging all manner of animal and insect opponents, and at-home pickling. The following excerpt is an introduction highlighting her early gardening experiences and the road to finding spirituality in nature.

Once upon a time, a faithless twenty-five-year-old got down on her knees and fashioned her first garden. It was a sorry thing, but also a matter of great pride, this perennial checkerboard imprinted on a sloping bit of ground outside her family’s kitchen door.

Introduction to Garden Design

Something interesting from UC Davis Extension's Master Gardener and Common Ground community garden maven, Yvonne Savio: Cornell's long-distance learning course. Yes, that's correct, a 10% online gardening design course.

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This April, Cornell Garden-Based Learning Program will launch a new 7-week long distance course, Introduction to Garden Design.  More information, including registration, online. View full syllabus.

Please share with interested audiences.

  

Marcia Eames-Sheavly, me14@cornell.edu

Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Department of Horticulture, Cornell University