If you have heard about the health benefits of green tea on your body, then you will likely appreciate the goodness of compost tea on your plants and garden soil. Both are prepared the same way, too – steeping in water until the goodness of the hummus or the leaves are extracted into the resulting [...]
Things to Know About Soil Composting Accelerators It has been said many times that composting is the best way to secure organic fertilizer. However, it can be a slow process taking weeks at a time to produce the desired black gold from the composted materials. This is where compost accelerators can be of assistance to [...]
Boost Your Soil Composting Garden Efforts with Compost Tea Avid practitioners of compost gardening know that there is no better all-in-one fertilizer and pesticide than plain old compost and it is called tea. No, not the tea that you drink but the tea made from the mature compost mixed in with water and then steeped [...]
Recycle Reduce and Reuse to Go Green Everybody hears these words of advice over and over, but sometimes we don’t think about the little things that we can be recycling, reusing, and reducing. Here are a healthy green living tips to make you think when it comes to these three words. How or Are You [...]
Garden Soil Notes for Gardener Wannabes The greatest frustration of would-be gardeners is having nothing to show for all their efforts. Flowering shrubs may never bloom or just grow a flower or two and then nothing. You may be one of these frustrated gardeners wondering what went wrong or what was wrong with the plants. [...]
Pile it On: Starting and Maintaining a Compost Pile Using compost for your organic garden has many benefits! First, it is a natural way to return minerals and nutrients back to the soil. It is inexpensive to make, saving you money on buying nutrients from outside sources, and it helps the environment, both by eliminating [...]
