Garden Medley

In his frustration with our recent failure of a garden, my husband is trying to figure out how to improve the soil for next year. His current idea, which we haven’t yet tried, is to save up veggie scraps and throw them in the blender with some water to pour into the planters.

I understand why he wants to do it – the nutrients should break down much easier in that form and improve the soil pretty quickly, but yuck! I’m trying not to think about what that could do to the blender, which we regularly use to make smoothies. (more…)

Getting your garden off to a good start requires fertile soil. However, the demands of your garden year after year mean that fertilizer is a must.

My personal favorite source of fertilizer is the compost heap. Everything that goes into your compost heap is something that could have ended up in the trash. Then you add in the fact that you don’t have to buy the compost and you have a great deal.

However, other fertilizers can be necessary for other reasons. You may not have a compost heap, may have started it too recently or you need something in your soil that compost can’t provide. (more…)

If you’re an avid gardener, you know how important worms are to your garden. You may also have had trouble getting what you feel to be enough worms into your garden. Worms help to aerate your soil, break down organic matter so that plants can use the nutrients and break up clods of dirt.

Have you ever considered farming your own worms? It’s actually not that hard. (more…)

The compost heap is more or less a staple of the home garden. It’s a great way to dispose of organic material in an ecologically friendly manner while making something that will help your garden grow. (more…)