GETTING STARTED WITH COMPOST

Crops feed on the soil. Meaning that, if garden soil is strong, your crops will be healthy and vice versa. However, people have been relying on chemical fertilizers to add soil nutrients and boost crop health. The chemicals used to make the fertilizers are not only detrimental to crops but also the environment and garden…

Tips for Successful Winter Composting

Composting is the process of using organic waste to supplement soil. To put it simply, common organic wastes like kitchen and yard scraps are put into a pile, and then they decompose. That decomposed material can be added to enrich any soil. All the nutrients that were in that material can, in turn, nurture the…

Fall Planting Tips For Your Organic Garden

All the leaves are starting to turn to gorgeous shades of red, orange, brown and yellow, making it the perfect time to start our fall organic gardens. There are those that think the planting season is over just because the weather is cooling off, but that just isn’t so. It is actually the absolute perfect…

How to Use Recycling to Make a Cheap Organic Vegetable Garden

Recycling is really finding new ways to use old, discarded or seldom used items around the home or sometimes the dump. Being creative with these items will help you to save money and have the benefits as well. Using recycled items found around the home is a good way to create your organic garden and…

How to Make Superior Compost

  Making compost at home is relatively easy. You just need to follow the right step to achieve the right compost potency. Through composting, you get to add nutrient-rich humus in your garden to fuel plant growth and restore soil vitality. Moreover, it is a natural alternative to using chemical fertilizers. Below are different ways…

Understanding Composting

What is composting? Composting is a natural process that is used to recycle organic materials like vegetable scraps and leaves into rich soil nutrients known as compost. The rich soil nutrients in compost boost soil microbes to aid healthy plant growth. Due to its rich soil changes, gardeners have nicknamed it black gold. This is…