Victory Gardens for ME Video Series
A series of videos for Mainers growing their first vegetable garden.
- Episode 1: Vegetable Gardening – Where to Begin
- Episode 2: Planning Your Garden
- Episode 3: Preparing Your Garden Soil
- Episode 4: Get Planting
- Episode 5: Managing Weeds
- Episode 6: How to Water Your Garden
- Episode 7: What’s Wrong With My Plant?
- Episode 8: What to Do With Your Harvest
- Episode 9: Pain-Free Gardening
- Episode 10: Preparing Your Garden for Winter
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Episode 1: Vegetable Gardening – Where to Begin
In this edition of Victory Garden for ME, learn about how to select and prepare your garden site, evaluate your soil conditions and garden in small spaces with raised beds and containers.
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Episode 2: Planning Your Garden
In this edition of Victory Garden for ME, learn how to plan your garden based on your family’s food preferences, plans for preserving your produce, when vegetables can be safely planted outside, succession planting techniques and more!
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Episode 3: Preparing Your Garden Soil
In this edition of Victory Garden for ME, learn how to prepare your garden soil for the growing season by testing your soil, amending your soil based on soil test results, adding organic matter (if needed) and much more!
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Episode 4: Get Planting
In this edition of Victory Garden for ME, learn about different ways to organize your garden, square foot gardening, companion planting, direct seed vs. transplants, proper planting techniques and more!
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Episode 5: Managing Weeds
In this edition of Victory Garden for ME, learn about the importance of managing weeds in your garden, how to prevent and manage weeds, the stale seedbed method, and much more!
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Episode 6: How to Water Your Garden
In this edition of Victory Garden for ME, learn about how much and when you need to water your garden, techniques and best practices, drip irrigation and more!
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Episode 7: What’s Wrong With My Plant?
In this edition of Victory Garden for ME, learn about cultural practices to prevent diseases in your garden, how to diagnose a disease problem, common vegetable diseases, how and when to submit sample to our Plant Diagnostic Lab, and much more!
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Episode 8: What to Do With Your Harvest
In this edition of Victory Garden for ME, learn about best practices for preserving your fresh produce, how to process high and low-acid foods, simple and low-tech preservation techniques, root cellaring, putting your gardens to bed in the fall, and much more!
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Episode 9: Pain-Free Gardening
In this episode of Victory Garden for ME, learn about how to plan your day in the garden, proper stretching and lifting techniques, selecting ergonomic tools, adapting existing tools to improve their ergonomics, designing your garden to match your abilities, and much more!
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Episode 10: Preparing Your Garden for Winter
In this episode of Victory Garden for ME, learn about how to build and manage a compost pile, sheet mulching techniques to establish new garden beds, planting a fall cover crop or mulching your garden to prevent soil erosion, reconditioning your garden tools at the end of the season, and more!