Gardening Techniques Volume 1 DVD-ROM:
Fine Gardening How-To Series
Quick Computer Access to 36 Articles and 9 Video Clips

From the Editors of Fine Gardening

This time-saving DVD-ROM presents knowledgeable answers to just about anything you might want to know about maintaining, feeding, staking, and watering your garden. This comprehensive look at garden maintenance is the result of choosing the best articles on these important topics from those that have appeared in Fine Gardening magazine.

From renovating a perennial bed to creating perfect edges to choosing the right tools for every job, it's all here in 36 articles reproduced in their entirety. You'll discover how to fight weeds, mulch properly, use slow-release and other types of fertilizers, stake a plant, and water wisely.

Each article is full of proven tips, step-by-step techniques, and detailed photographs to help you become a better gardener. This DVD shows you how to grow a healthy weed-free garden, what to do when your garden grows too big, 35 ways to remedy pests and diseases, and so much more.

Best of all, it's easy to find exactly what you are looking for quickly with our easy search feature. It will save you time and trouble when you need expert information fast.

The accompanying video clips demonstrate helpful techniques like tree staking, drip irrigation, ridding a garden of slugs and snails, and more.

When you have questions about garden maintenance, this is the place to go for fast, expert answers. Just a few examples of the practical information you'll find here:

• How to Reduce Maintenance
• What's Eating Your Plants
• Learn to Water Well
• A Buyer's Guide to Fertilizers

This handy DVD-ROM shows you how to master the basics of proper garden maintenance and it will help you become a better gardener.

System Requirements:

Windows®

• Microsoft® Windows 2000, XP or Vista
• Pentium® 3 (Pentium 4 recommended)
• 512MB RAM
• DVD-ROM drive (8X or faster recommended)
• 800x600 minimum screen resolution (1024x768 recommended)
• 4.3GB of available hard drive space (if installed)

Apple®

• Mac OSX® 10.3.8 or higher
• PowerPC G3 (PowerPC G4 recommended)
• 256MB RAM (512MB or greater recommended)
• DVD-ROM drive (8X or faster recommended)
• 800x600 minimum screen resolution (1024x768 recommended)
• 4.3GB of available hard drive space (if installed)

Download of Adobe Shockwave® Player might be required on some systems
This DVD-ROM disk will not play on stand-alone DVD players.

Table of Contents:

Maintaining
Renovating a Perennial Bed
Sharpening & Cleaning Tools
Mulch
Remaking a Bed
Perfect Edges
Rooting Out Perennial Weeds
Fighting Weeds
10 Time Saving Tips
Choosing / Using the Right Tools
Weeding Made Easy
35 Pest & Disease Remedies
When the Garden Grows Too Big
How to Reduce Maintenance
What's Eating Your Plants?

Feeding
A Buyer's Guide to Fertilizers
Slow-Release Fertilizers
Organic Fertilizers
Weed and Feed Fertilizers
Fertilizing Trees (Q&A)
Fertilizing Basics
Synthetic Ferts/Supplemental
Fertilizer in a Flash

Staking
Give Your Plants the Support Needed
To Stake or Not to Stake?
Supporting Cast for Tomatoes
Look Ma, No Stakes

Watering
Learn to Water Well
How Much Water and When?
2 Ways to Water
Make Every Drop Count
Rain Barrels
Irrigating with Hard Water (Q&A)
Water While it Rains
Watering Trees in Drought
Water Wisely w/ Drip Irrigation
Easy Irrigation

Videos
Feeding and Mulching Roses
How to Use a Shovel
Releasing Beneficial Insects
Ridding Garden of Slugs & Snails
Selecting the Right Shovel
What Deer Damage Looks Like
Tree Staking
Drip Irrigation
Fertilizing Basics

DVD-ROM

ISBN: 978-1-60085-052-3