Pot your Plants - Choosing a Plant Container

Pot your Plants - Choosing a Plant Container

Pot your Plants - How to Choose Potted Plants

Pot your Plants - How to Choose Potted Plants

Pot your Plants - Putting Soil in the Pot

Pot your Plants - Putting Soil in the Pot

Pot your Plants - Arranging Plants in a Pot

Pot your Plants - Arranging Plants in a Pot

Pot your Plants - Placing Plants in the Container

Pot your Plants - Placing Plants in the Container

Pot your Plants - Watering your New Plants

Pot your Plants - Watering your New Plants

Tips on Plant Watering

Tips on Plant Watering

Plant a Tree - Planning

Plant a Tree - Planning

Pot your Plants - Choosing a Plant Container

Pot your Plants - Choosing a Plant Container

How to Winterize an Ornamental Garden

How to Winterize an Ornamental Garden

April Gardening Tips

April Gardening Tips

May Gardening Tips

May Gardening Tips

June Gardening Tips

June Gardening Tips

July Gardening Tips

July Gardening Tips

August Gardening Tips

August Gardening Tips

September Gardening Tips

September Gardening Tips

Fast Fall Lawn Revival

Fast Fall Lawn Revival

Planting Cool Weather Vegetables

Planting Cool Weather Vegetables

Top Fall Gardening Tips

Top Fall Gardening Tips

Keeping Color in the Garden

Keeping Color in the Garden

Top Lawn And Garden Watering Tips

Top Lawn And Garden Watering Tips

Late Summer Lawn Care

Late Summer Lawn Care

End of Summer Garden Maintenance

End of Summer Garden Maintenance

Top Tropical Garden Plants

Top Tropical Garden Plants

Summer Watering Secrets

Summer Watering Secrets

Making The Most Of A Mid-Summer Garden

Making The Most Of A Mid-Summer Garden

Tips For A Deer Free Garden

Tips For A Deer Free Garden

Control Garden Pests The Natural Way

Control Garden Pests The Natural Way

Pruning The Perfect Summer Garden

Pruning The Perfect Summer Garden

Early Summer Gardening Tips

Early Summer Gardening Tips

 Springtime Vegetable and Herb Planting

Springtime Vegetable and Herb Planting

Spring Annuals Brighten Any Garden

Spring Annuals Brighten Any Garden

Secrets To Spring Garden Success

Secrets To Spring Garden Success

Bring Your Lawn To Life

Bring Your Lawn To Life

Spring Vegetable Garden Secrets

Spring Vegetable Garden Secrets

Spring Gardening With Perennials, Annuals And Bulbs

Spring Gardening With Perennials, Annuals And Bulbs

Top Tree Planting Tips

Top Tree Planting Tips

Spring Tree And Shrub Gardening Secrets

Spring Tree And Shrub Gardening Secrets

Get Garden Ready For Spring

Get Garden Ready For Spring

Great Garden Winterization Tips

Great Garden Winterization Tips

Make Garden Mosquitoes Disappear

Make Garden Mosquitoes Disappear

Prepare Your Garden For Winter

Prepare Your Garden For Winter

Fall Pruning Procedures

Fall Pruning Procedures

Fast Fall Garden Clean Up

Fast Fall Garden Clean Up

Garden Tool Maintenance

Garden Tool Maintenance

Storing Garden Machines for Winter

Storing Garden Machines for Winter

Planting Trees And Shrubs

Planting Trees And Shrubs

Storm Damage Pruning

Storm Damage Pruning

Preparing Container Plants for the Move Indoors

Preparing Container Plants for the Move Indoors

Putting The Garden To Bed

Putting The Garden To Bed

Raking & Bagging Leaves

Raking & Bagging Leaves

Christmas Tree Shopping Tips

Christmas Tree Shopping Tips

Composting & Mulching Fall Leaves

Composting & Mulching Fall Leaves

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Mitch Baker

American Plant Garden Center and Nursery

www.americanplant.net  

(301) 469-7690

Mitch Baker is the Horticultural Specialist at the American Plant Garden Center and Nursery, in Bethesda, MD, focusing on natural gardening products and organic gardening. Mitch is a MD Certified Professional Horticulturist, with more than 34 years of experience in the garden center industry. He has studied at numerous horticultural institutions from New York to Oregon, and also serves on the board of the Rachel Carson Council.

Pot your Plants - Putting Soil in the Pot

Mitch Baker is the Horticultural Specialist demonstrates how to put soil into your container.

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Hi. I am Mitch Baker with American Plant Food. Now, that we have selected our container for our container garden, we are going to mix up our potting mix. Now, you can use a potting soil, something thats pre-mixed, ready to go. Thats fine, lots of these available in garden centers and hardware stores, but I am going to mix up a soil blend. But, we are going to start first with some pine bark nuggets to take up some room in the container. These plants are going to fill this container with roots. So, we dont need to have soil filling the container. It also makes it a little lighter if you want to move the container around. So, well use some pine bark nuggets to take up some room in the base and then well put our soil blend on top of that. Were going to fill it up about one-third with pine bark nuggets and we are going to use our composted blended soil amendment, so that we get that biology in our soil mix. Then we are going to add some additional particle matter with pine bark fines or pine bark soil conditioner. Then we need to blend those together. What we want is this nice loose soil mix, so that we have some of that composted blended soil and some of the pine bark fines. That particle matter increases porosity of the soil, incorporates more oxygen into the soil. It certainly improves the drainage. So, we are not filling this pot all the way to the top because we are going to fill it with plants, we got to allow some room for the plants. So, now we have our soil blend in there, the next thing is to choose our plants.

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Plant a Tree - Soil Amendments

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Plant a Tree - Preparing the Hole

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Plant a Tree - Preparing the Tree or Shrub to be Planted

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Plant a Tree - Placing the Tree in the Hole

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Plant a Tree - Backfilling the Planting Hole

Plant a Tree - Backfilling the Planting Hole

Plant a Tree - Completing the Backfill Hole

Plant a Tree - Completing the Backfill Hole

Plant a Tree - Mulching Your Tree

Plant a Tree - Mulching Your Tree

Plant a Tree - Watering Your New Tree

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Diagnosing Rhododendron & Other Plant Problems

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