garden videos

Gardening With Friends: The Art of Bonsai at the Duquesne Light Home and Garden Show

Everybody Gardens explores the beauty and passion involved in creating the bonsai trees being displayed by the Pittsburgh Bonsai Society at the Duquesne Light Home and Garden Show.

In the Garden: Angel wing reattached, protecting plants from deer and fertilizing houseplants.

Everybody Gardens editor Doug Oster demonstrates how to repair a damaged statue. He’s also showing how to keep deer off plants and a great way to feed houseplants.

In the Garden: Three novel ways to start seeds outdoors now

Everybody Gardens editor Doug Oster is just like every other gardener, he just can’t wait to get started. The soil is unworkable this early in the year and he’s got three ways to start seeds out in the garden right now.

In the Garden: Getting the most out of your houseplants.

Everybody Gardens editor Doug Oster shows how to get the most out of your houseplants. He’s talking about watering, fertilizing, cleaning leaves, removing dead growth and most importantly, talking to your plants!

In the Garden: Fun forcing forsythia and there’s life in the garden

Everybody Gardens editor Doug Oster shows off the first blooms in the garden as winter fades. He also has a great, easy way to get beautiful forsythia flowers indoors.

Gardening With Friends: Tour the Orchid and Tropical Bonsai Show with Doug

Everybody Gardens editor gets a wonderful tour of the Orchid and Tropical Bonsai Show at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens. Orchid manager Katie Schuller leads the tour showing off the beauty of the flowers and bonsai.

In the Garden: Making more plants by taking cuttings

Everybody Gardens editor Doug Oster shows how to make more plants by taking cuttings. This is a fun job any time of the year, but great when longing to garden.

In the Garden: Preparing garden tools for the season

Everybody Gardens editor Doug Oster is spending the day in his unheated greenhouse demonstrating how to get tools in shape for the gardening season.
He’s showing two ways to sharpen, how to avoid rust on the metal parts and how to treat wood handles to make them last for decades.

In the Garden: What gardening pros would love us to grow

Everybody Gardens editor Doug Oster was in Baltimore at the Mid-Atlantic Nursery Trade Show. He asked garden professionals what they wished gardeners would grow.

In the Garden: Stratifying milkweed seeds, harvesting seeds from the garden and getting organized.

It’s critical to give milkweed seeds a cold treatment called stratification. It will improve germination rates dramatically. Everybody Gardens editor Doug Oster shows three different ways to prepare the seeds for planting. He’s also out in the garden harvesting some morning glory seeds and inside organizing his seeds for this season’s sowing.

In the Garden: Creating a bird friendly landscape

Everybody Gardens editor Doug Oster loves watching the birds, but they can help in the garden too. Here’s how to create the perfect landscape for the birds.

In the Garden: Indoor bulbs and harvesting. Testing viability of old seeds.

Everybody Gardens editor Doug Oster is planting paperwhites and amaryllis bulbs and showing how to get the amaryllis to re-bloom. He’s also harvesting microgreens, testing the viability of old seeds and introducing you to an old friend.