| ... that stuff. >> there are things that can help you with that. we're going to put some of those details on our website. also on our website, you will find some of the best online sites for buying your shoes. because i know you did a little research on those, as well. lisa lee freeman, thanks for having you here. i love the cutout shoes. chris? >> all right, erica, thank you very much. spring has sprung. so it is time to start feeding and planting. master gardener william moss is here as we begin to start our garden early this year. good to see you again. how you doing? >> doing good. >> so first official full week of spring. >> right. >> still a little cold in some parts of the country like here in the northeast. but it is never, never too early to start your garden. right? >> definitely not. definitely not. the veggies are ready. although the temperature may not say spring, the calendar says it. >> first we're going to start with seeding. simple tips for people that do want to start seeding. >> the thing about seeds is, seeds are inexpensive and they're easy to do but you've got to plant them twice as deep as they are wide. here, i'm going to have you hold these. all right. >> so make little rows -- >> that's great. and then i will just make a little line there. always twice as deep as they are wide. i'll let you take this middle row and just drop a few in. and you just make sure that they're in there. doesn't matter if you put too many. just make sure you fill it all the way up. >> got it. >> then after that you just come through. that's it. that's good enough. >> cover them up. >> get some water on them, those guys are ready to go. >> you said this is easy and anyone can do it. >> and for later. >> move on to some more of the veggie plants here. >> some of these guys aren't going to be good from seeds. you have to start them from a plant like this pepper plant. i'm going to have you dump a little fertilizer in this hole for me. start the fertilizer. make a little hole in the center. >> oh, that's fertilizer. >> yeah, it is. that's good enough. >> a little pungent. >> you want to spread it out down the bottom and simply take your plant, and then put it on in here. make sure the dirt is nice and rich. >> pack it in, too. >> got to pack it in. got to put them in here. this guy is ready to go and grow, and in about fast forward about 2 1/2 months, we've got peppers. >> how about watering? >> for this you just water about an inch a week. that will be fine. >> move on to blueberries. >> this is a blueberry bush. blueberries are nutritious, delicious, easy to grow, and they're american. so, we're going to take this american beauty, and take him out and pop him right into the pot. put him up sit him right here. and just like -- >> help, right? >> just like with the pepper we're going to plant it in some nice, rich soil. right on in there. >> any of your hardware stores at the weekend, go down there, get on line with everybody else? >> yeah. get in line. dump the whole thing in there, spread this guy out. and now, this blueberry is good to go. of course you're going to get some water on him. but you can't be having blueberries, you know, in your garden. >> you can put a bunch of different kinds in there? >> put more than one variety. plant one, plant another. i like to add herbs, too. it's a neat thing when you put herbs in with your flowers, because they repel pests. >> is that right? >> that's right. you can go anywhere in containers. if you don't have ground space you can grow vertical, here's the topsy-turvy. that's how your vegetable is going to start. look what it's going to be. that's probably about 2 1/2 months. again, yep. >> talk about maintenance now, because, different climates, different areas. >> here's the number one thing for your veggies, your bl blueberries. get some mulch out. this is actually a compost. we're going to use it as a mulch so we're feeding at the same time we're mulching. >> are there a lot of different kinds people can choose from? is there one particular that works better than others? >> your own compost is the best stuff possible. look for something that's organic. i'm going to let you water because the garden needs about an inch of water a week. and i'll just go ahead and mulch this. finish putting out our compost as mulch. water those lettuces. and then the final thing that people have to do to maintain, perfect. final thing they got to do remember to fertilize. we're starting with a bunch of new plants. i'm going to sprinkle some of this starter fertilizer out. >> you want to water over the fertilizer. >> water right over the top of that fertilizer. we'll be sure to work it in and now this garden is going to be productive for quite awhile. and it's in raised beds. anyone can do this anywhere. >> this is great. and it would work indoors, too. >> it works indoors. great for urban schools and other places where you may not ... |