One of the best free plant foods and soil improvers is compost, but for most of us there’s only so much compost you can make using waste materials from your own garden, so it’s worth looking for other sources of organic matter to. Ask neighbors for leaves they’ve raked up, or if...
I planted my cilantro in a big plastic pot, about the size of a whiskey barrel planter. I filled it with a mix of compost, peat and perlite in even proportions, along with a few scoops of garden loam. My compost has enough nutrients for the cilantro to grow strong, so I didn’t ad...
If you want to grow mushrooms, make sure you do it in a pot and not in your garden, because otherwise, you will have a hard time trying to protect your mushrooms from other fungi. If you plant them in a pot, you will have the possibility to move them from one place to another in...
weeds are unlikely, and rabbits and squirrels won’t as easily disturb your crop. If you don’t want to dig a garden or put in a raised bed (or if you’re a renter), a salad table will give you more options than container gardening. It can also be accessible ...
Installing rainwater collection systems, using salvaged wood, or even setting up a compost station in your garden can all help keep your footprint low. Transform Historic Properties: Turning Back Time on a Budget Transforming historic properties into a comfortable, modern home doesn’t have to ...
compost in to new beds to help build up soil levels over time. This is not only free it improves soil composition for plants. If your garden plan calls for yearly expansion, then consider building the raised beds first, planting a cover crop and using garden produced compost to fill them ...
Are you looking to improve your garden with some landscaping work? This may create a lot of vegetal debris, but this is not a problem. We can offer you dumpster hires just for your yard junk, including branches, grass, plants and shrubs. The cost depends on your specific task and there...
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(okay, attempted to fold the netting and then just balled it all up because it was making me crazy) and then he pulled out all the plants (about ten) I threw them in the leaf compost and we called it an afternoon. After a summer of garden disasters, the pounds and pounds of ...
Problem: once I close, I will not have much money available to build a house. It strikes me that there must be a good way to build a house cheaply. If I were in the US, I would probably just buy a doublewide. Here, that’s not an option, so we need to get creative. ...