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Tag Archives: planting
Comfrey – My Favorite Herb
As I noted in my last post about planting tomatoes, I love to grow comfrey for various uses on our mini-farm. I use it mainly for mulch, compost green material and even at times feed it to the chickens. It … Continue reading
Mother’s Day Tomato Planting
Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers and grandmothers! Mother’s day weekend is one of my favorite weekends in spring because I get to honor my mother and wife and also it’s the time we put the tomatoes in the … Continue reading
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Tagged bed, comfrey, country, farming, frost, garden, garden bed, gardening, germination, mothers day, mulch, plant hardiness, planting, plants, seeds, soil, tomato, tomato seed, tomatofest, transplants, usda, vegetable
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How to Make Bedding for Your Worm Bin
As I discussed in the last post, raising worms to produce compost is fun, easy and a great source of high-powered, all-natural, fertilizer for your garden and seedlings. Now that you have your worm bin made, it’s time to put … Continue reading
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Tagged composter, gardening, leaf mold, peat moss, planting, red worms, sphagnum, worm bedding, worm bin, worm compost, worms
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How to Make a Simple Worm Bin
Worms are God’s soil-building machines—a virtual humus creating factory as Thomas Barrett would say. They can rapidly convert organic matter and vegetable scraps into high-nutrient compost and castings (worm poop) for your garden and other uses. There is much research … Continue reading
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Tagged composting, gardening, plant food, planting, seedlings, vermicompost, worm bin, worm castings, worms
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Potato Planting Time!
It’s time to get ready to plant potatoes! I’m so excited! Potatoes are some of the first crops we plant in spring. Potatoes are the “funnest” crop my kids like to grow. It’s easy for them to plant and they … Continue reading
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Tagged all natural, crop, gardening, growing, planting, potato, seed potato, sulfur, wide row
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