We were looking for information on squirrel proof bird feeders and came across this video. It shows a variety of different types of squirrel proof feeders in action, including a motorized battery powered feeder. There are a couple of different styles for different size birds, but they all seem to do a good job of keeping squirrels out of your feeder.

Here are a couple more of the infomercial videos on the Aerogrow Aerogarden Hydroponics unit. (I think this unit is fascinating myself, great idea for a Father’s Day present).

The first shows a quick overview of the herbs you can grow with the Areogrow system. 7 herbs in one kit, enough to keep the cook in your life happy for a while.

Here’s a quick video from Osmocote featuring Jennifer Bartley. She discusses the overall care of tomato plants including the proper planting, pruning, and fertilization of tomato plants.

Here’s a 6 minute video on how to make your own homemade hydroponics system. Using a home fish aquarium and some other inexpensive supplies the video will walk you through building a simple home made hydroponics system.

Here’s a short video from the University of Nebraska (the Backyard Farmer Series). It cover many aspects of choosing the right outdoor containers for your use, including choosing the right size and colors. The focus is on containers used for outdoor landscaping, but the areas touched on apply equally as well to vegetable container gardening.

Here’s a video from Osmocote featuring Jennifer Bartley on the history and uses for raised bed gardening.

Here’s a quick video that shows what a tomato horn worm looks like, and how to identfiy one. Also a little on how it’s controlled and it’s life cycle.

Here’s a quick video from Wayside gardens.

Often you will want to plant roses outside in a container, often for a patio or deck area. Others may find it necessary to plant roses in containers so they can overwinter somewhere less harsh than the outside environment.

A popular choice for container plantings is the Knockout Rose. It’s a compact bush type rose, with bright red colors, and is resistant to black spot. It’s a fairly drought tolerant rose, and it’s mature size only about 3 feet by 3 feet, so you don’t need a very large container to hold one.

This hydroponic indoor container gardening kit seems to have hit a real nerve, as it has become a quite popular choice for indoor container gardening. Many of them were sold at Christmas time in 2006, and I think the AeroGarden was even featured on QVC. As of this review there are over 35 customer reviews at Amazon, so you can get a pretty good cross section of customer reactions.

Most of the reviews are favorable, and several people have bought more than one.

This is a video from Osmocote that features container gardening with edible plants. Covers basic container choice, soil preparation, and focuses on herb and vegetable selection and moisture maintenance for your container garden. This particular sample uses a trellis for support for climbing bean plants.

Here’s another video on container gardening, this one from Scotts’s Trainging Institute. While it has a couple of shamless plugs for Scotts products like their potting soil, it still has some good information on container gardening, especially container herb gardening. Overall good content and production. Enjoy!

Here’s a short video from the folks at RecipeCookBook. It suggests a soil recipe for a container garden, what to do to keep the moisture level under control and keep from watering you herb garden daily. Includes several suggestions for herbs, and how to plant them to accommodate the various sizes. About 6 minutes in length, well produced.