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Transcript: 00:01 [Music chimes and cymbal fade in, then fade out] USDA Logo and United States Department of Agriculture

00:03 [The People’s Garden logo. Folk guitar strumming quietly begins] The People’s Garden

00:04 [Text] Mobile Garden Planter Part 2 of 2 If you missed part 1, see 20120824-DM-LSC-9002.

00:07 [View from inside trough, looking at Leslie outside, above the far end of the trough.] Leslie: Add planter soil, as recommended by a nursery. [A bag is emptied into the trough]

00:15 [Leslie talks from beside the trough] Leslie: Then organic nutrients are mixed in. [Hand uses tool to mix soil.]

00:21 [Bob pores compost into trough for Leslie to mix.] Leslie: Thank-you, Bob.

00:24 [Leslie show’s hand-width spacing from edge.] Leslie: When planning your garden layout, just remember to keep you plants about a hand’s width away from the container edge, and think about the full-size width of your plants. You don’t want to crowd them. Subtitle: Get to know the plant you want to grow.

00:38 [Bob is flanked by children as he kneels at end of trough to dig a hole and plant a chive plant.] Bob: Next, I’m going to show you how to plant chives. First, you dig a hole about the same size as the pot. Then you carefully tip the pot. Pull out the chives. See how they fit right in the hole we planted for them. And you just then tamp in around the root ball. And there you go; you just planted the first herbs. Subtitle: Chives

01:11 Leslie: Well, that’s all it takes to make a mobile garden planter. Now Bob and I have to roll on out of here.

01:19 [Leslie, Bob and children push mobile garden planter away from camera.] Bob: Push!

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20120824-DM-LSC-9003 USDA Multimedia by Lance Cheung.

01:20 [The People’s Garden logo.] The People’s Garden

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Description: For a school with limited green space that's looking for a flexible way to grow food or other plants, building a garden on wheels is a practical solution. In this video, Leslie Burks, Project Manager and Bob Snieckus, National Landscape Architect describe step by step how they built a mobile planter at Powell Elementary School in Washington, DC. Follow their simple instructions to construct a mobile planter of your own. More gardening resources at www.usda.gov/peoplesgarden. Share your success stories and photos with us on Twitter@PeoplesGarden.

USDA Multimedia by Lance Cheung.