Roses are probably the most popular flower grown by organic gardeners, given their beauty, scent, and hardiness. However, all too often we ignore the opportunity to take advantage of a simple method of propagation, opting instead to cut their flowers and put them in vases. A … [Read more...]
How to Grill Baby Bok Choy
If you’ve never grilled bok choy, you’re in for a treat. It’s a cruciferous vegetable, grouped with cabbages. Bok choy is actually a non-heading Chinese cabbage. It may remind you a bit of celery with its stalks. The flavor of bok choy is not as strong as cabbage and makes for a … [Read more...]
Beer as a Fertilizer and Uses Around the Garden… What?
Believe it or not, leftover beer makes a handy spot-fertilizer for your yard, and it's purely organic, since it's the yeast in the beer that does the job. This works best for homebrewed beer, since you end up with a thin layer of yeast on the bottom of each bottle, but it can … [Read more...]
Pre-Germinating Seeds Gives You a Head Start
If you want to get a jump start on the growing season by a few days, try pre-germinating your seeds. This is a fairly simple, completely natural process that requires very little effort and just a few resources. Why Pre-Germinate Seeds If you live in cooler climates, you can … [Read more...]
Use Fish Scraps as Garden Fertilizer
The next time you find yourself preparing to throw out spoiled fish or fish remains, stop for a second and reconsider. Fish makes a very good natural fertilizer for nitrogen and trace minerals. In fact, it works so well that many Native American horticulturalists buried a fish at … [Read more...]
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