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If there was only one piece of advice I could give to improve your soil, it would be to compost. As a young gardener, no money was available for soil testing. When I finally had my garden soil tested, the results showed that it needed no further amending. How did I do that? I just kept adding compost to my garden year after year.Continue Reading
The most important thing you can do, in my opinion, to grow a healthy, disease and pest-free garden is to build your soil. Therefore, the most important thing you can do to keep your garden pesticide and chemical fertilizer free is build your soil. And unfortunately, rototillers destroy soil rather than build it.Continue Reading
When I was 8 years old, a neighbor gave me a johnny-jump up flower to plant. I dug a hole and planted it alongside our house, watered it, weeded it, and marveled at it. When it “died”, I pulled it out and was scolded by my neighbor/mentor. You see, if I had left it alone, it would have re-seeded and returned next year.
I thought I was taking care of things, but that was my first gardening mistake. I’ve made many. I’ve put together some info here for beginning gardeners so that, perhaps, you’ll make a few less than I.
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