HTA-0641: Henry's Garden — Full Episode (HG)

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A full Henry's Garden episode covering multiple gardening topics with Buzz Bertolero.

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...gardens the size of one of Paris Hilton's skoits.

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You say that you have so little doit you can't even grow weeds.

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Is that your problem, Bunky?

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Fortunately, Buzz Bertolaro has the perfect answer.

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It's called a...

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Earthbox.

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It's called an oifbox.

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Yeah, earthbox.

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Oifbox, yeah, you got it.

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Oifbox.

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And he's going to explain why this can solve your gardening problems

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if you ain't got a garden.

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That's coming up.

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No, not that problem.

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I'm Henry's garden.

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Also coming up on this edition,

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an emergency high-tech tree residence, and baking this garden.

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Delicious results.

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You're watching Henry's Garden.

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There is Buzz Bertolero behind bars, which is exactly where we like to.

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Well, behind, what is this stuff?

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It's a netting.

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It's a fishnet.

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A fishnet.

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Exactly.

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See, he looks pretty good in fishnet, doesn't he?

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I know.

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I do.

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And you can tell.

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You've seen it.

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But moving right on, I'm so happy with myself putting this together.

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Usually, these things tend to be a real disaster.

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Now, you may think that this is the beginning of the segment, but this is an earth box.

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And this segment actually started about 45 minutes ago when Buzz started to assemble it.

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I've never heard such language, Buzz.

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Oh, please.

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I didn't use anything other than that wouldn't be able to go over a broadcast network type of air.

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The thing about it was this netting was really the problem.

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It came in this little...

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Take it apart.

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No, they didn't give me any instructions.

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Explain what the earth box is, please.

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Basically, the earth box.

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This is one.

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It's an old one that I used to use.

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It's not a hydroponic unit.

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Basically, it's a self-watering container for small decks and patios where people can grow fruits and vegetables in a small area.

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Fruits?

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Fruits, yeah.

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things like strawberries, blueberries, fruits and vegetables.

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Traditionally, people like to use it for summer type of crops.

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Tomatoes would probably be strong, peppers and things of that nature.

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But it's gardening in a small space.

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That's what the Earthbox is for.

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And this is the Mercedes version that you have here.

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That's right.

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This actually not only has six wheels, but it's got automatic transmission and air conditioning.

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Oh, and a CD player, too.

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And it's got this scaffolding here on which you can hang your plants.

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Yeah, this is a supplement.

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So if you already have an earth box, you can then add this on.

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It's called the staking unit.

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And so what, about 50 bucks for the basic unit, I think?

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Yeah.

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And then just add on the accessories.

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So the first thing you do is put water in it.

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Put water in it.

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That's right.

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So get the water.

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We have a reservoir tube, which is right here.

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We're going to fill that up.

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Okay.

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Let's see.

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Should I use this in the shower mode, the angle mode, the flat mode, the soaker mode?

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any mode that you want.

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I'll go with soaker if I can.

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Do you have an adult mode?

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No.

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Okay, we're going to fill it up until the reservoir.

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Now, is there a reason why I can't just do this?

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Why I have to do this?

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I'm following the instructions and probably there's no reason why not to start with.

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I mean, what's the difference?

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I have no idea, Henry.

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I'm just following the recommendations that are printed and there must be a reason that

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they print them.

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Okay, why don't you tell us what you're going to do next since this is taking way longer

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than you told me it would.

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Once we get the water put in, come on over here.

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I'm going to get some potting soil and we're going to start throwing it up with the soil

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mix on that.

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Now traditionally what people would do is say, "Okay, we just dump the potting soil in there."

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But no, we're going to put the potting soil in layers, pre-moisten it so that it's nice and moist

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and we don't have to worry about the drain on the reservoir in the beginning soil.

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How do I know when to stop this?

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It's supposed to come out the overflow.

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Where's the overflow?

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At the bottom.

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Wait a minute, how can it be an overflow at the bottom?

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I don't know.

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Are you sure?

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Okay, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to turn it around for a minute just so you can see the overflow.

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Yes, it's...

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Look at that, ladies and gentlemen.

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It's piddling all over the deck.

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Stop it.

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I'm sorry.

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Okay, so you put this on in layers, right?

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Yeah, so there's the first layer.

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Flatten it out.

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Oops.

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So we flatten this out like this, yes?

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Yeah.

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And then you put another layer.

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Yeah.

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Now why are we doing this in layers?

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Oh, because we're going to moisten it.

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We're supposed to moisten it.

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Take it off of the adult mode and put it on the moist mode.

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Excuse me.

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So now we put this on shower, I guess.

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I could go fan or cone or maybe center.

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No, no, no.

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I'll go this way.

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Okay.

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Okay, so now moistening, moistening, moistening.

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Layer, layer, layer, please.

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Okay, how many layers did they say you should use?

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All the way up to the top.

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That doesn't tell me how many layers.

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That tells me how high to put them.

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Just so they get wet.

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That's the whole idea.

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Okay.

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All right.

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And unlike traditional containers where we leave room for watering,

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that's not the case with the earth.

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box we're gonna fill it right up to the brim of soil. Oh because the water is actually going to be

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how does it get from the bottom to the top? Capillary action. Capillary action? Uh-huh.

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Wasn't he a priest? He was. He used to work. Yeah. And he went into the movies. I think he was an

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action hero at one time but I'm not sure. Okay so now we have moistened this up to this level.

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Yes.

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Yep, yep, yep, yep.

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Okay.

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Now we give it the shower hat.

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What does that do?

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Well, this, oh, we've got to put the fertilizer on.

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Oh.

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I was going to claim you knew how to do this.

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Yeah, I did.

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Okay, open that up.

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Open that up.

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Where's the knife?

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Excuse me, hand me that knife, will you?

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Yeah.

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Put the fertilizer, put it right down the center of the box.

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So I'm going to mix it in?

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No, we're going to lay it right on there and be done with it.

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You're kidding.

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That's what they say.

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Just lay it right on there?

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Uh-huh.

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Okay, sort of like this.

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This is a water insoluble fertilizer meaning that...

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No, it's both.

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So that has a little bit, but primarily water insoluble.

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Which means it'll last a longer time, but you don't get that quick instant hit.

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Yeah.

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Okay, so we're going to put this on like this.

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And just all the way down like that.

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Voila!

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How's that?

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We haven't planted anything, Buzz.

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We are going to now.

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We are?

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Okay. Make one, two, three, four, five holes on this side.

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Okay. You know, actually, Buzz, we're going to take a break.

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Please, meet my guests.

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We're going to take a break because, frankly, I can't handle much more of this.

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When we come back, we're going to finish up our earth box,

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and we're going to show you the bountiful harvest that we received.

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.