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Garden Planning for Beginners with Fred Montague

Spring is here and it's time to plan your garden!...
Planning your Garden for spring is never an easy task which is why Modern Gardener partnered with Professor emeritus Fred Montague to ease your gardening woes. In this episode, we bring you a tried and true garden box design, as well as best tips and practices for gardeners of any experience level.
We brought our indoor plants to Cactus and Tropicals to find out how to take better care of them. Lizzi's Aloe, pictured here, needs more sunlight.

Indoor Plant Care

We visited Cactus and Tropicals for a house plant show-and-tell, bringing our own plant babies to get professional advice about caring better for our house plants.
We visited Cactus and Tropicals for a house plant show-and-tell, bringing our own plant babies to get professional advice about caring better for our house plants.
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Regrowing Veggies from Kitchen Food Scraps

Vegetables You can Regrow in Your Kitchen!
If you're looking to green up your eating habits and your wallet this year, try regrowing your food from kitchen scraps! This easy and fun project is a great winter DIY that can be done your own home. Join Modern Gardener in learning regrowing veggies from food scraps!
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Growing Microgreens and Sprouts Part 3: Growing and Eating

The moment we've all been waiting for, eating our microgreens and sprouts!...
In this video we go over lighting, what seeds shouldn’t be grown and consumed as a microgreen and sprout, keeping a log, harvesting and storing, and finally tasting!
Growing your own microgreens and sprouts. Corn shoot microgreens. Copy Right of KUED

Growing Microgreens and Sprouts Part 2: Planting and Watering

Fill Your Trays, Sow Your Seeds, Start Your Sprouts and watch them grow!
Once you've gathered all your materials for growing your own microgreens and sprouts, you're ready to start planting. In this post we go over various planting and watering techniques, best environment for growing, where to place your microgreen trays and sprouting jars, and how often to water.
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Growing Microgreens and Sprouts Part 1: Getting Started

We grew our own microgreens and sprouts and you can too!
You’ve probably heard of microgreens and you’ve most likely eaten sprouts, but have you ever had the desire to try and grow them? Modern Gardener set out on a microgreen and sprout growing experiment to find out as much as we could about growing these tasty, little greens.
Lizzi Brosseau and Eddy Dawson in the Four Season’s Garden and Red Butte Garden

Red Butte Garden in the Wintertime

Visit Red Butte Garden in the winter and get inspired!
There’s nothing better to beat the winter blues than to get moving and spend time outdoors in nature. Red Butte Garden, one of Utah’s premiere botanical gardens nestled into the foothills of Salt Lake City, is open year round and it’s the perfect place to escape to in the winter when cabin fever strikes.
DIY Pine cone bird feeder with peanut butter and bird seed

DIY Bird Feeder to Help Birds Through Utah’s Winters

Feeding birds to help them through Utah's harsh winters...
You might be surprised to find there are birds who migrate to Utah in the wintertime, and an abundance of overwintering birds who stay year round. Help them survive the harsh winters with a DIY pinecone feeder!
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How to Build Hoop Houses

Your Winter Wonderland Garden
Modern Gardener visits with local urban farmers Elliott and Manda of Top Crops to learn more about hoop houses, how they’re used, what sorts of materials are needed, and some important tips for growing in the cold season.

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