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Texas Gardening – Making Compost
Composted organic material is the most important thing that can be added to Texas gardens and landscape plants. It provides nutrients and improves soil condition.
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Unusual Items to Add to Compost
Add unusual or unconventional ingredients to your compost, and increase your humus production while keeping waste out of the landfill.
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Easy Compost Making
Making good compost is an art and a science but by following some straight-forward suggestions, it becomes a simple process to make organic garden fertilizer at home.
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How to Build a Compost Pile
While some gardeners have made composting a demanding, technical task, the basics remain the same: Add vegetable matter, sprinkle with water, mix, wait.
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Making Compost for Gardens Fast and Easy
Composting is easy and it is a planet-friendly way to cut back on household trash while doing something good for the soil by yielding nutrient-rich soil for all gardens.
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Composting the Easy Way
Build a compost bin and learn from an expert, just how easy it can be to have rich compost for your garden, houseplants and starts.
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Ruminations on the Organic Label
The new USDA Final Rule on organic farming is problematic. What I learned at a recent organic farming conference disturbed me, particularly when major players in the organics movement are actually talking about leaving and finding something else to call eco-farming.
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Compost Happens!
Still not composting like you should? Ready to start composting anew this spring? Get the information you need to start out right -- what to use and how to do it, so you can make great compost for your garden now! The perfect way to celebrate Earth Day!
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Controlling Weeds in the Garden
Weeding is one of the most detested of all gardening chores, but it doesn't have to be. Weeding can be made much simpler by implementing a few work saving methods.
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Make Your Own Compost
Making compost. Hints of what to do and what not to do. Written by Geoffrey Ian Miller.
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Natural Composting
Compost happens naturally, so let Mother Nature have her way and you'll end up with rich garden soil without a lot of work.
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Before Spring, Get Your Yard Ready to Save Water
While your garden may be dormant now, it's not too early to start getting ready for a new year with a beautiful, low-maintenance yard that uses less water than ever.
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New Composting Assurance Standards
New quality assurance standards for the composting industry gives confidence to consumers who buy their products. Written by Geoffrey Ian Miller.
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Winter Garden Projects, Part Two: Make a Compost Sifter/Dryer
This compost sifter/drying screener is a highly recommended, useful garden accessory. Make it yourself and save money.
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A Few Quick Hints
Making life in the garden a little easier doesn't require an advanced degree...
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Average Berry Plant Yields
Ever wonder just how many berries one bush will provide? The typical yields of these four plants might surprise many gardeners.
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Best Way to Plant a Vegetable Garden
There is more to planting a vegetable garden than throwing in seeds - or even planting seedlings in neat rows. Crop rotation will ensure freedom of disease and good soil.
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Building a Worm Compost Bin
How to build a worm compost bin. Red wiggler worms eat their body weight or more each day, and create rich worm castings for the garden.
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Composting and Recycling
Often, we waste useful composting materials that we could use to help our gardens by recycling. Why not think about how we can put this to good use.
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Composting Supplies for Gardeners
Organic gardeners who aren't getting quick results from their composting methods can speed up the decomposition process with these compost helpers.
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Easy Composting in the Garden
Composting directly in the garden is easy and has advantages over traditional methods.
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Garden Compost Bins
Create rich compost for a healthy, thriving home garden.
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Growing Salvia Divinorum Indoors or Outside
A member of the mint family (Labiateae), Salvia Divinorum has a square stem and spends most of its time in vegetative growth. It flowers in the fall, but rarely to seed.
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Growing Violets and Pansies - Viola
With their colorful faces and sweet scent, violets are one of the first flowers to awaken and ring in spring.
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How to Compost Effectively
Before you begin your journey on the road to composting your organic material, make sure you've adopted the proper mindset.
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How to Compost Your Garden, Yard & Kitchen Waste
Hesitant to start composting because you fear it will be a smelly, messy inconvenience? Read on. A compost bin can reduce your garbage bill and enrich your garden!
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Kitchen Composting Ideas
Many families are trying compost bins, but don't want to head outside multiple times a day with food waste. Here's some easy countertop composting solutions.
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The Potager Garden
The potager garden is more commonly known as a kitchen garden in the United States. Taking it step by step, anyone can create one on his own plot of land.
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What Not to Compost
By following a few simple rules, gardeners will find that composting in bins or worm farms can be relatively problem-free. Avoid putting these items into the compost.
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Growing a Mushroom
White mushrooms are the most popular mushroom grown and represent 90 percent of mushroom consumption in the United States.
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How About Eating Your Jack-o'-lantern?
Pumpkins are hard to digest unless you know how to prepare them. Here are some tricks which I use.
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January Gardening In The Low Desert
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January Gardening In The Low Desert 1999
Things to do in the low desert garden for January and a list of internet sites for ordering gardening catalogs/supplies and those with other info for the gardener. Herb of the month and hint of the month included.
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Wave® Petunias Design Solutions
Wave® petunias provide inexpensive and eye-catching design solutions. Develop and complete a project in one weekend using these planning tips. Photos provided.
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Good Garden Soil
Good garden soil is the most important foundation for growing great plants. Improving the quality of the soil is the single most important undertaking gardeners can perform. Replacing your existing soil is not necerssary. A better solution is to improve the soil - turning it into "living soil" full of organic life. This article will explain what soil is, what it does for plants, and how to improve your soil. Amending any type of garden soil (clay, sand, silt) is very easy with the "universal soil amendment". It is not expensive, and can even be free. This article will tell you how.
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Naturally Healthy Salad Dressing
Salads can be healthy and interesting. A different dressing can be whipped up fresh daily. Lettuce is not needed either. Various ingredients are waiting to be discovered.
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Preparing for Winter
With autumn well under way now and winter not far behind, we look at the glorious colours to be found at this time of year and set about preparing for the dark winter months.
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Top 40 Garden Terms
Understanding what all those how-to books are talking about makes gardening easier for the novice. Below, often heard garden terms are explained for the new gardener.
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Vegetable Garden
Description: This article has ideas and instructions for planting a simple vegetable garden and relates the history of Victory or War Gardens during World War II.
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