Course curriculum

  • 1

    Trailer

  • 2

    Introduction

    • Introduction To Over the Hill Orchards
  • 3

    What Is Container Gardening?

    • Why Not Plant In the Ground?

    • Are Raised Beds the Answer?

    • Why Grow In Containers?
  • 4

    Preparing Your Containers

    • Types of Containers

    • Mixing Your Soil
  • 5

    Planting Your Seeds

    • What Do I Plant?

    • How Much Should I Plant?

    • When Do I Plant?

    • How Do I Plant?

    • Planting Heat Loving Vegetables

    • Planting Potatoes

    • Planting Garlic

    • Planting Strawberries

    • Planting Companion Plants

    • It is Alive!

    • Transplanting Seedlings

    • Fertilizing and Mulching

    • Insect Check
  • 6

    Watering Your Containers

    • Bottom Watering with Troughs

    • Automating the Watering
  • 7

    Harvesting (In 2019)

    • Harvesting Carrots

    • Harvesting Corn

    • Harvesting Potatoes

    • Harvesting Tomatoes

    • Harvesting Strawberries
  • 8

    Preparing For Winter

    • Overwintering Strawberries

    • Fall Clean Up
  • 9

    Wrapping Up

    • Wrapping Up

    • Blooper Reel

Instructor(s)

Dean Kreutzer

Dean has been growing fruit for over 20 years in an extremely challenging region to grow fruit. He has travelled across North America to learn from other growers and to push the envelope of what could be done.