"Gardening through the Seasons" Videos: Seasonal Tips in A Quick Accessible Online Format

As the demand for home horticulture information continues, using technology to help meet this demand is a must.  To provide seasonal home horticulture information in a quick and accessible online format, an agreement was reached with the Agricultural Communications Department to produce 24 five minute videos. These videos were designed to provide seasonal tips, techniques and how-to’s for the home gardener. MSU horticulturists provided information on everything from how to prune a crapemyrtle to interior plant care.  Two videos were produced and posted each month on the Extension Service homepage at http://msucares.com/gardenvideos.  These videos could be viewed on the website or downloaded as an MP4 file. The “Gardening Through The Seasons” project and has been very successful. County offices and clientele have indicated these have been very useful when answering seasonal home gardening questions. A DVD of the 24 videos produced in 2009 was provided by request to county offices and other interested gardening groups. Because of the impact and success of this project it was continued into 2010.