The last of my summer garden still lingers. Its the 3 bell pepper plants that I kept as an experiment. Lamont and I wanted to see if they would “return” after the heat of the summer was gone. They did, and when the heat began to give way to cooler temperatures, say middle August or […]
Ok, Here are the bell peppers that I’ve experimentally saved from the Spring garden. Usually, when the heat hits and they wilt, drop their flowers and stop producing fruit, I pull them up. This time I cut them back in July to help them survive the heat and just waited. Now, August 18th, they are […]
Red hybrid earthworms. Each one ingests its weight in organic matter every 24 hours, and excretes highly nutritious fertilizer called castings. These castings are the most perfect plant food known to man and contain 5 times the available nitrogen, 7 times the available phosphorus, 7 times the exchangable magnesium, 11 times the available potash and […]
Ok, I know there are more seeds in each packet than is needed for planting, but I wanted to actually use the whole packet of seeds for once. They age, you know and as they age, germination isn’t guaranteed by planting time next year.
1. What is “organic gardening” anyway? Organic gardening is often defined in negative terms, as in “gardening without the use of synthetic pesticides or fertilizers.” In fact, organic gardening is much more than that.
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This is my first attempt at gardening. I have constructed a raised plot and now I am wondering how high do I need to fence around my garden in order to protect the plants from animals? Also, do I need to put some protection over the top so as to keep the birds from having […]
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