Above all, the best organic fertilizer is compost. You can purchase good-quality compost from a soil yard or garden center, or you can create and use your own compost. Just find a shady place; recycle all of your organic waste from your kitchen (including vegetable scraps, fruit peels, eg...
And as I write spring has arrived and just when I thought mid to late winter was a busy time with garden planning, preparing the ground, and ordering seeds and plants etc... the pace has jumped from busy to mad busy. Yet I'm committed to improving the-organic-gardener.com and to ...
The old kitchen garden, with its neat, straight rows of vegetables, has faced any number of challenges in recent years—raised beds, intensive gardening, square foot gardening, succession planting—all turn their backs on the conventional layout of neat rows of carrots, peas, or potatoes. ...
Well, if this year in the garden doesn’t kill me, it will probably cripple me. I’m trying to come back after multiple surgeries and other medical anomaly (I’m beginning to feel like a medical anomaly myself) and bring the garden(s) back after years of neglect, and oy, but it’...
For over 25 years, Coast of Maine has provided a variety of organic soil amendments and mulch to give your garden a healthy head start and steady support.
The bottom line is I am on a mission to provide natural organic fertilizer products that really grow gardens, lawns, and pastures for the folks that count on every penny invested in their garden returning great results. Providing effective natural solutions will push toxic fertilizer chemicals out...
At the end of the season,clean up and compost any garden refusethat might harbor pests or disease over the winter. If you cannot make ahotcompost pile that will be capable of killing pests and diseases, then place any diseased or infested plants in the garbage away from the garden. ...
set up. There are more creepers going over porch, young saplings of honey jack fruit waiting for adoption… (let me catch my breath).The plants enjoy sunshine, good soil and lots of leafy compost. Suneetha look after them all , and says , its no big deal Bless her and the garden. ...
window into the greenhouse and there he was, sitting on the wood sill near the parsley, looking east out the window, waiting for the sun to come up? I went out to talk to him about moving back to the garden. When I stepped into the greenhouse he hopped up on the side of the nearb...
About half of your garden soil is made up of weathered rock that has been broken down over long periods of time by natural elements such as: Thawing Freezing Wind Rain The size of inorganic mineral particles found in your soil determines the type of soil you have. Soil types are: ...