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14 HD Video Lessons
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Instructor
Doug Jimerson
A gardener for over 40 years, Doug Jimerson is the Garden Editor at Better Homes and Gardens. View profile »
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Garden Fresh
Grow Your Own Vegetables, Fruits & Herbs
with Doug Jimerson
Nothing beats the flavor of vegetables, fruits and herbs fresh from your home garden. Doug Jimerson shares secrets of a successful harvest.
*NOTE: This class contains archived instructor responses but no active instructor participation. It features student-led (rather than instructor-led) discussion only. If you have questions, one of the many experienced gardeners in Garden Fresh will surely have the answer!
Yellowed basil, scanty tomatoes, stunted cucumbers - just a handful of the many reasons why gardeners give up trying to grow fruits, herbs and vegetables. But don't throw in the trowel! Craftsy has teamed up with expert gardener and Better Homes and Gardens editor Doug Jimerson to bring you more than seven hours of video instruction on how to plan, plant, tend to and properly harvest delicious edibles from your very own garden.
Garden Fresh: Grow Your Own Vegetables, Fruits and Herbs will teach you how and when to start seeds indoors. It will help you make the most of limited garden spaces. As you get to know your unique growing conditions, you'll learn to diagnose common soil, plant and bug problems. Also covered: Why tomatoes are America's garden favorite, and how to help them flourish in your garden! You'll learn up-to-date success secrets for greens, strawberries, fruit trees and much more, and be ready to venture into new crops like walking onions, scented geraniums, rue and lovage.
Once you register, the class is yours to view whenever you like, season after season. So get ready for your garden to grow like never before. Sign up for Garden Fresh: Grow Your Own Vegetables, Fruits & Herbs today!
What You'll Need:
- Various seeds and plants
Lesson Plan
| 1 | Introduction | 9:24 |
| 2 | Getting Started | 25:39 |
| 3 | Cool Weather Crops | 22:08 |
| 4 | Spring Greens | 16:09 |
| 5 | Root Crops | 20:01 |
| 6 | Cole Crops | 12:47 |
| 7 | Warm Weather Crops | 14:44 |
| 8 | Vine Crops | 27:45 |
| 9 | Summer Favorites | 22:53 |
| 10 | Growing Tomatoes | 27:12 |
| 11 | Growing Herbs | 32:34 |
| 12 | Berries & Grapes | 20:16 |
| 13 | Fruit Trees | 13:57 |
| 14 | Bonus: Perennial Produce | 5:41 |
Recent 5 star reviews of this class
Average Review:
Great course!
As a novice gardener and avid researcher I've been trying to compile all of the information I read to make sense of it all. This is far and away the BEST source I have found! It's easy enough that anyone can understand it, the course materials and designs are very helpful, and I love the organization by planting time - genius!
Thank you Mr. Jimerson and thank you Craftsy!
Great for Beginners
Mr. Jimerson is very knowledgeable and truly displays his love of gardening. I guess for myself I was looking for something to help more with problems in the garden. A visual of menacing insects would have been nice to see or even how a leaf appears once its been attacked. So much material to cover with such little time to present. Maybe that could show up in a mini course. There is no way every zone issue can be addressed in such a short span of time. Thank You Mr. Jimerson for your time in ...
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Very Exciting
The classes were very easy to undestand. I like the division of topics. Very informative speaker, looking forward to this season crops.
Fresh ideas from Garden Fresh
Lots of good ideas from the Garden Fresh course. Thank you, Doug Jimerson.
Another Winner!
I have signed up for many classes from Craftsy, and am especially pleased with the topics in this Gardening course. Mr. Jimerson explains and demonstrates techniques very well, and gives information on disease, pest deterrents, and best planting practices. I like how I can hop around to the different topics in this platform, and appreciate all the readers questions, and Doug's patient answers. For instance, I started to make a summary of what he said about blossom rot on tomatoes, and then ...
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