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Video: Vertical Garden Installation at Descanso Gardens, La Cañada Flintridge, CA

Douglas E. Welch — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:37:40 +0000

We haven’t made a trip out to Descanso recently, but this would certainly be cool to see in person. There is a lot of interest in vertical gardening lately and this does it on a grand scale.

Link: Descanso Gardens Web Site

Vertical Garden Installation at Descanso Gardens from Descanso Gardens on Vimeo.

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Elsewhere: DIY shade finder tool takes the tedium out of solar surveys

Douglas E. Welch — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:33:47 +0000

Nothing like applying a little science and technical ingenuity to make an onerus task easier and faster. I could see this being very useful to a gardener who is trying to site a new plot, tree or home plantings. I have toyed around with using video or time-lapse to accomplish this task, but this is certainly easier and much more accurate.

DIY shade finder tool takes the tedium out of solar surveys

[Steven Dufresne] does a lot of tinkering with solar-powered applications, a hobby which can be very time consuming if done right. One process he carries out whenever building a solar installation is creating a sun chartto determine how much (or little) sun the target area will get.

The process requires [Steven] to take elevation and Azimuth measurements of many different points, which often consumes about half an hour of his time. While taking measurements recently, he started thinking about how he could improve the process, and came up with a stellar solution that reduces the process down to a one-minute task.

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Video: Spring – HD Time Lapse Footage of Flowering Trees

Douglas E. Welch — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:54:28 +0000

An amazing view of something we can only see via time-lapse. Enjoy!

Spring – HD Time Lapse Footage of Flowering Trees from HDtimelapse.net on Vimeo.

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Time lapse of flowering trees such wild apple tree, apricot tree, cherry tree, japanese cherry tree, apple tree, pear tree.

Source: Nikon D700 & Canon EOS 5D Mark II

Music: Felix Mendelssohn – Spring Song (fragment)

More footage on http://www.hdtimelapse.net

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Elsewhere: Video: TedTalks: A Garden in My Apartment

Douglas E. Welch — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 23:51:00 +0000

A great talk on a system to building a garden anywhere you have available space and light. Does it give you some thought? It sure does that for me. Check it out! and let me know what you think in the comments.

Could you use this in your house or apartment?

Would you try it out?

How could you make it better?

What would you grow using a system like this?

Watch “Britta Riley: A garden in my apartment” on YouTube

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Video: Planting daffodil bulbs

Douglas E. Welch — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 22:32:53 +0000

A short video montage of some work I did in the garden today. I purchased a bag of 75 daffodil bulbs to expand my existing plantings a week or so ago. Here in Southern California, our bulbs start to sprout as soon as the first substantial rains appear, so I wanted to make sure and get these in the ground soon. We had a storm pass through last week, but it didn’t bring much actual moisture. That said, it is a sign that the Winter rains are about to arrive.

Today I planted about 25 of the 75 bulbs in some areas where I am pretty sure there are no daffodils already. While my existing bulbs do seem to naturalize and spread, I try to plant a few more every year to create a daffodil “tide” when they all bloom at once. We get probably a month of bloom from the daffodils, which are proceeded by paperwhites, which are usually first and then snowbells and finally, the daffodils

Photos

Daffodil photos from previous years

Daffodil posts on WelchWrite.com from previous years

Video

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Video: Review of Troy-Bilt TBHT57 Electric (Cordless) Hedge Trimmer

Douglas E. Welch — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 07:44:09 +0000

Here is my video review of the Troy-Bilt TBHT57 Electric (Cordless) Hedge Trimmer. A complete written review will be coming soon.

Watch “Review of Troy-Bilt TBHT57 Electric (Cordless) Hedge Trimmer” – iPod Ready Video

* Troy-Bilt provided this product as part of my membership in the Saturday6 program, but they do not control the contents and opinions of this review

Troy-Bilt TBHT57 at Amazon.com

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Video: Watch the great pumpkin grow!

Douglas E. Welch — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:00:00 +0000

Ok, this is pretty darn cool! We usually only see the end result of these pumpkins, but this video gives an entirely new perspective.

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Video: Chef’s Garden “Unboxing” – chef-quality produce from Ohio

Douglas E. Welch — Thu, 26 May 2011 08:10:05 +0000

Join me as I open a box of ultra-fresh produce delivered straight from Chef’s Garden, Inc. in Huron, Ohio. I had the pleasure of visiting their company as part of Troy-Bilt’s Saturday6 and they were kind enough to send me a “Family Box” of veg to try. Come see everything that was included.

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Photos from our Saturday6 visit to Chef’s Garden

Disclosure: This post is in conjunction with my paid partnership as one of the Saturday6 from Troy-Bilt. All thoughts are my own.

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