Category: Gardens

Episode-102- Make Gardens With Flowers, Fruit, Vegetables And Honey Bees

Tony Teolis June 18, 2012 0 Comments
Tour our gardens with today’s video and see for yourself what is possible with planning, hard work, hugelkultur, seeds from SouthernExposure.com and plants from NourseFarms.com. Of course special credit goes to the gardens hardest workers. The Russian honey bees from Kellysbees.com. enjoy and come back for more. The video for today is one I took of the 18 plus gardens that I have created...

Episode-98- Grow Strawberries And Make Strawberry Jam

Tony Teolis June 4, 2012 0 Comments
           Since it is spring /early summer in northern Virginia a lot of the episodes have been of the permaculture gardening flavor but I assure you that it is all for making a better life. In this kind of weather I want to be outside as much as possible. During the days Monday to Friday I am busy paving the road for the progress of science and not outdoors until the evening. When I am...

Episode-95- Bring Dead Lawn Back To Life

Tony Teolis May 24, 2012 0 Comments
How To Green A Dead Patch Of Lawn  Integrate Rather Than Segregate – “Many hands make light work” By putting the right things in the right place, relationships develop between those things and they work together to support each other. Every time I attempted to repair the dead patch ended in failure as there was never enough soil or lawn started to hold back the water. As I have been...

Episode-93- Grow More Tomatoes With Vertical Gardening

Tony Teolis May 18, 2012 0 Comments
           How I went from a no nothing backyard gardener to a producer for the neighborhood in just 3 years. I read and listened to others. How to plant tomatoes Why tomatoes and other plants should be trellised Materials for trellising plants. 3/4 inch PVC pipe in 10 foot lengths, 1/2 inch by 2 foot rebar rod, PVC connectors, trellis nets, a helper. How make the trellis The benefits...

Episode-91- Plant Fruit And Vegetables From Nourse Farms Part 2

Tony Teolis May 14, 2012 0 Comments
Nourse Farms located in Whatley, Massachusetts has become part of the establishment at ToDoListHome.com. For three years I have received and planted asparagus, blackberry, raspberry and strawberry from Nourse Farms. This year we received more plants and expanded the plantings with blueberry and elderberry. We also planted more asparagus. This time purple passion asparagus was planted in a 2 foot...

Episode-90- Plant Fruit And Vegetables From Nourse Farms Part 1

Tony Teolis May 11, 2012 1 Comment
       Nourse Farms located in Whatley, Massachusetts has become part of the establishment at ToDoListHome.com. For three years I have received and planted asparagus, blackberry, raspberry and strawberry from Nourse Farms. This year we received more plants and expanded the plantings with blueberry and elderberry. We also planted more asparagus. This time purple passion asparagus was planted...

Episode-87- Low Cost Lawn And Garden Care

Tony Teolis May 7, 2012 2 Comments
         This episode is part permaculture and part to do list home series because it speaks to using renewable resources and at the same time accomplishing a weekly chore. Expensive lawn care program not necessary! My program costs $94 per 2 years which is an 85% savings over what others have proposed Grass clipping to the compost bin Easy Lawn Care begins with the right equipment and...

Episode-78- Produce More At Home To Retire Early

Tony Teolis April 17, 2012 0 Comments
Producing things for consumption at home is contrary to the American way of life. the us economy depends on consumer spending for at least 70% of all consumption. That's outrageous and horrible. Americans have become dependent on too many complex systems just to get by for an ordinary day. Starbucks coffee in the morning, Chipotle in the afternoon and pizza delivery for dinner just name a few....