“They don’t know diddly about prairies” — Learn diddly and more in Barnhart Prairie restoration and history video
January 27, 2012 — Joy
Uploaded by barnhartprairie on Jan 26, 2012 | This 12 minute video gives a highlight on the importance of prairie and a brief history of the Barnhart Prairie Restoration project, located near Champaign, Illinois.
Community-wide bioswale project engages city and businesses
January 24, 2012 — JoyUploaded by AndyGLeverett on Jan 23, 2012 | LaSalle Bioswale, Jacksonville, Fla. : Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens, Media Works, Content Design Group, San Marco Preservation Society, Greenscape of Jacksonville, EnVision Design + Engineering, the City of Jacksonville, Superior Trees, MetroVerde, PBM Constructors, Petticoat-Schmitt Contracting. For more information, visit St. Johns Riverkeeper and Metro Jacksonville news.
Good greenhouse ideas: sun, heat, and ventilation control
January 23, 2012 — JoyUploaded by ehowhome on Jan 15, 2012 | Subscribe for new episodes: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=ehowhome
P. Allen Smith takes us on a tour of his greenhouse and explains the benefits of year-round growing.
Extension video: An overview for designing, constructing, filling, and planting raised beds and containers
January 19, 2012 — JoyUploaded by uwcoopextension on Jan 17, 2012 | Gardening in small spaces or on challenging sites can be made easier through the use of raised beds and containers.
Things a gardener can do in winter: sharpen, sand, lubricate tools
January 18, 2012 — Joy
Uploaded by groworganic on Jan 17, 2012 | Learn how to care for your garden tools to improve their life and performance.
Beat Back Buffelgrass day January 28, 2012
January 17, 2012 — JoyUploaded by tucsonelectricpower on Jan 6, 2012 | TEP is part of a community-wide effort to remove this non-native plant that is threatening the Sonoran Desert. Learn more at buffelgrass.org.
Thistles, spotted knapweed, whitetop: Invasive problems for both homeowners and national parks
January 15, 2012 — JoyUploaded by GreatBasinNPS on Jan 12, 2012
Farm stock panels: Functional, cost-effective, durable trellis material for home gardeners
January 14, 2012 — JoyUploaded by growingyourgreens on Jan 13, 2012 | John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to the local hardware store to share his favorite trellis material for use when growing a vertical garden. In this episode, you will become more familiar with stock, hog, cattle panels, welded-wire fencing, and re mesh mats and rolls and how they can be used to grow plants up a trellis to get them off the ground. In addition, you will learn about how steel stock tanks can be used as a raised bed garden and finally how you can store rain to water your garden.
NFF works to restore the natural diversity of America’s forests
January 13, 2012 — JoyUploaded by natlforests on Jan 3, 2012 | The National Forest Foundation works with the U.S. Forest Service to support forest restoration on the National Forests where wildfire, insect or disease outbreaks, or storm events have caused mortality at a scale large enough to require artificial regeneration to restore the forest. Our goal is to restore the natural diversity of tree species that existed prior to the event. In so doing we are able to restore the full range of ecosystem services that healthy forests provide.
Native but aggressive cattails managed by wintertime controlled burns
January 12, 2012 — JoyUploaded by npdp1 on Jan 10, 2012 | Illinois Lake County Forest Preserve Burnt Off An Area At North Point Marina in order to control the cattails.
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CONTROLLING CATTAILS: The acreage of cattail-dominated wetlands in the United States has increased drastically since the early twentieth century due to changes in hydrology and land use. The optimal control technique for a given site will depend on the hydrologic state of the site, the size of the area to be managed, and if the manager is able to manipulate water levels.
Prescribed Burning: Most cattail marshes must be burned in winter or before significant growth has occurred in spring; these are generally the only times when fuels are dry enough to carry a fire, although frozen ground or saturated soil may impede the fire’s progress through the cattail duff. Fire is most effective as a control method when followed by naturally or artificially high water levels in the spring to smother residual stalks.
