Why You and Your Garden Soil Need Minerals There are many ways to introduce needed minerals into your garden. One method starts with a soil test and adds or amends several different items or mixtures to get the pH level and major nutrients like N, P and K in appropriate ratios. Another is using multi [...]
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Mineral Restoration of Your Garden Soil
Why Your Garden Soil Needs Minerals Today we look at another aspect of building healthy, vibrant garden soil that is not only incredibly productive but provides pest and disease resilience. Conventional commercial farming and gardening has mainly paid attention to three elements for the past 65 years or so, pretty much to the exclusion of [...]
Terra Preta- Magic Soil of the Lost Amazon Part II
What is the Best Way to Build the Health and Resiliency of my Garden Soil? Welcome to the second part of Terra Preta, or how using Stone Age agricultural techniques may just be the best way to build the health, fertility, resiliency and nutrient cycling of the soil several fold. We will start with [...]
Terra Preta- Magic Soil of the Lost Amazon
What is the Best Way to Build the Health and Resiliency of my Garden Soil? This is the first of a series of articles and discussions on how best to build your garden soil. This is the results of much reading, experimenting and talking with several people who have been engaged in this exact pursuit [...]
Food Films
Winter is a cold time of year in most parts of the country, with shorter days and more time spent indoors. One of my favorite hobbies (besides gardening) is watching movies. I have been a film buff since I was a kid and had actually contemplated going to film school. Instead, I majored in horticulture [...]
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