(Revised 2/26/09)
If you’ve never started a garden from seed, you’re in for a treat … if you do it right.
Here are a handful of links and some useful commentary to help you do it right. Read on, my gardening friend. Read on …
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February 22, 2009
February 7, 2009
With the economic situation what it is, likely there are many first-time or returning gardeners searching the internet for tips this year. That is good. But there are many sites that are long on eye-candy and conjecture and short on facts.
1) Many sites will refer to compost as ‘fertilizer’. While most of my readers know better, new gardeners might get hood-winked. With an NPK macro-nutrient rating of 1-1-1, “fertilizer” is the worst of all possible reasons for using compost. Read on, my gardening friend. Read on …
February 3, 2009
Detroit is an urban environment and has a need to limit the impact of rats. With ordinances and serious fines against maintaining unlicensed dumps and rat harborage threatening, how can you rat -and ‘rat-fink’ – proof your compost pile? Read on, my gardening friend. Read on …
