One of the main reasons is soil depletion: Modern intensive agricultural methods have stripped increasing amounts of nutrients from the soil in which the food we eat grows. Now there are certainly other factors that play a role in this as well, but we’re not going to get into that here....
Mediterranean. It is very active. Park your car outside for a night unprotected and you’ll see a fine dusting of black particles in the morning. That is what the mountain folks call the "active fertilization" program. Airborne terroir, perpetually replenishing the soil, makes the wines ...
Trying to do a better job listening to my body when she’s like‘maybe you need to actually REST.’ So illness snuck away the June date, I chose to skip the October date which means FEBURARY IS GAME TIME, Y’ALL This means ALL the diplomatic podcasts, tv shows (Hi, Madam Secretary)...
Farmers do this to avoid one crop stripping the soil of all the nutrients. The diversity of plants through intercropping helps to stabilize the nutrients that they all need, assuming the soil is nutrient dense to begin with. Happy soil leads to happy plants, which leads to happy gardeners. ...
Eventually, adult iguanas will shed only once or twice a year and the areas that shed will be larger. For these reasons, It is important to maintain proper humidity. You see, shedding properly really does depend on the air being humid enough to not stick to the animals new skin. ...
While both aquaponics and hydroponics grow plants without soil, hydroponics relies on adding synthetic nutrient solutions to water. In contrast, aquaponics uses natural fish waste as a fertilizer, making it more organic and sustainable. There’s no need to buy bottled nutrients, and the system does...
Are Guajillo Peppers Spicy Like all chiles in Mexico the spiciness of the pepper will depend on the chile variety, the inclusion of the veins and seeds, harvest time, weather conditions and other factors that may even be associated with the type of soil and its nutrients used when growing. ...
Found in soil and water, this mineral helps your thyroid work. Research suggests it can help protect against cancer, especially of the lung, colon, and prostate. It's easy to get too much if you take it as a supplement. That can lead to digestive problems, hair and nail loss, and eve...
to the garden to check on my sugar-snap peas (they finally germinated!), imagine my delight when I also discovered a whole bed of chickweed and dead nettle. These delicious and nutritious wild, edible, perennial and ubiquitous greens had taken over a bed of soil that I had not yet ...
In essence,hydroponic gardening is the practice of growing plants in water instead of soil. There are many methods, some low-tech and some high-tech, but the essentials are the same: Plant roots develop in water, nutrients are added to the water to feed plants via the roots, and a ligh...