Put on your bellbottoms and a polyester double-knit shirt. After more than 27 years, the People Place Alley Garden returns.
This very popular Lubbock television show was broadcast in 1978, and described how to grow high quality vegetables in the alley outside your backyard fence.
Dr. Roland Roberts, Horticulture Specialist with Texas Cooperative Extension (now retired), demonstrates the principles and practices of successful vegetable gardening in the alley behind his house. These fundamentals are as applicable today as they were in 1978, and we are pleased to make this excellent information available once again. Most of the episodes are hosted by Alice French.
So get your Moosewood Collective Cookbook off the shelf, and let's get started.
| Title | Quicktime 7 | Real Media / Quicktime 6 | Windows Media |
| Growing asparagus (7:13) | 15.1 mb | 19.8 mb | 18.8 mb |
| Sowing carrots on top of beets (7:25) | 16.4 mb | 20.3 mb | 22.7 mb |
| Spring garden and garden orientation (1:58) | 4.4 mb | 5.3 mb | 6.7 mb |
| Drip irrigation (6:48) | 15.3 mb | 18.7 mb | 25.7 mb |
| Trellising snow peas and other vegetables (2:39) | 5.7 mb | 7.2 mb | 7.1 mb |
| Mulch and mulches (6:09) | 13.5 mb | 16.9 mb | 17.8 mb |
| Planting green beans (6:49) | 14.9 mb | 18.7 mb | 24.9 mb |
| Spacing members of the cabbage family (2:20) | 5.0mb | 6.3 mb | 11.5 mb |
| Removing row covers, adding wind breaks (2:55) | 6.2 mb | 7.9 mb | 8.6 mb |
| A bit about lettuce (2:59) | 6.5 mb | 8.1 mb | 11.7 mb |
| Spacing sweet corn (1:54) | 4.1 mb | 5.1 mb | 10.3 mb |
| Cages and plastic for tomatoes (8:10) | 17.6 mb | 22.4 mb | 19.8 mb |
| Pollinating squash by hand, squash bugs (4:40) | 10.2 mb | 12.7 mb | 9.7 mb |
| Severe weather, tomatoes, and snow peas (6:53) | 15.0 mb | 18.8 mb | 15.0 mb |
| Solving common potato problems (4:57) | 10.8 mb | 13.5 mb | 16.0 mb |
| Growing cucumbers on trellises (7:02) | 15.1 mb | 19.2 mb | 21.8 mb |
| Harvesting the cabbage family (6:45) | 14.6 mb | 18.4 mb | 18.0 mb |
| Tomatoes: coping with heat and mites (6:17) | 13.4 mb | 17.1 mb | 23.8 mb |
| Planting broccoli for a fall crop (7:29) | 16.1 mb | 20.4 mb | 19.2 mb |
| Planting carrots for the fall garden (7:02) | 15.8 mb | 19.2 mb | 25.9 mb |
| Planting fall beets and corn (6:02) | 13.1 mb | 16.6 mb | 23.0 mb |
Viewing
the videos:
One version requires Quicktime
7. Another version will work on either Quicktime
or Real Player.
The other version will play with Windows Media Player. The Quicktime
7 versions are both the smallest file size and highest quality.
A note about quality:
Each video was extracted from the original analog tape, and we have preserved
the footage exactly as broadcast. There are a few editing problems,
but
they do not detract from the content. The Quicktime 7 versions are higher
in image quality than the Real Media / Quicktime 6.5 versions,
and are especially better than the Windows Media versions.
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