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Volunteer Gardener 2918

Produced by Nashville Public Television, Volunteer Gardener features local experts who share gardening advice, landscape design tips, and environmentally conscious farming practices. We visit with growers, plant collectors, and hobbyists alike who share insight and experience. Airs Thursday nights at 7:30 and Sunday mornings at 9:30 on NPT, channel 8.

Volunteer Gardener 2918

Season 29 Episode 2918 | 27m 55s | CC

On this episode of Nashville Public Television's Volunteer Gardener, an arborist demonstrates growing out the root system of bare root trees in a raised bed filled with gravel. We tour a home cottage garden that features lots of coleus varieties. Annette Shrader checks in with a beginning vegetable gardener. Jeff Poppen explains the benefits of double digging for healthy plant roots.

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