We hope you all have been enjoying the O’Neal Community Garden across the street from the shop. As you’ve probably noticed, it’s beginning to “go down” for the season. We will let the zinnias, cosmos, and the tall orange tithonia naturally die down so seeds drop into the soil f...
This is almost always the first response I get from gardeners who don’t believe that cardboard causes problems. And this is where it’s important to consider earthworm behavior. Photo credit: Kurt B. on Flickr We’ve all observed that earthworms crawl to the soil surface during heavy ...
I suspect my blocky clay soil that was either terribly wet or terribly dry and a constant drip of pine-needles blanketing seeds was not to their liking, so I gave up on growing rose campion. Do you suppose that brilliant color we see has its origins in combinations of colors reflected fro...
soil for days. However, the tomatoes and peppers are fairly diseased and don’t seem to enjoy having their feet wet for a solid two to three weeks. The okra seems to produce no matter what. I have been harvesting 2-5 lbs of okra every other day and as soon as I turn around I ...
Conversely, when the sun is shining, it also prevents evaporation from the soil surface. So the best mulch actually improves the biodiversity of your entire soil ecosystem by giving all manner of critters a place to live, food to eat and water to drink. It even looks good in the organic ...