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Home - CUPS Videos - 12 Garden Planning Tips to Maximize the Growing Season – video

12 Garden Planning Tips to Maximize the Growing Season – video

Weston Miller, an Oregon State University Extension Service Community and Urban Horticulturist, shares 12 garden planning tips to help you make the most out of your growing season. Included in the list are ways to extend the harvest and make it possible to increase the bounty of foods produced.

OSU Extension Service horticulturist Weston Miller, sharing tips on preparing garden soil for early spring planting
OSU Extension Service horticulturist Weston Miller, sharing tips on preparing garden soil for early spring planting.

The areas covered in this video:

  1. What do you want to grow?
  2. Choosing the garden location
  3. Space and time considerations
  4. Garden measurements
  5. Soil test
  6. Importance of pH
  7. Transplants or seeds?
  8. When to plant what
  9. Season Extension
  10. Improving the soil
  11. Nutrients for plants
  12. Soil temperatures
12 garden planning tips to help extend the growing season video

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Published on:
February 25, 2014

Categories: CUPS Videos, Food Farmer Earth, Growing Food

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