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Growing produce is very similar to baking a cake. Fresh, high-quality seeds are like fresh, high-quality ingredients. But much like a sub-par oven can ruin a cake, sub-par soil can ruin your crop quality and harvest quantity. Improve your soil and you will improve your growing experience. Test Your Soil, Add Missing Elements, Compost Find […]
Many common kitchen herbs are also used in herbal medicine. Use these herbs in cooking, in herbal infusions and herb teas – and in baths and home beauty treatments.
Instead of scattering seeds then thinning later, creating seed mats or seed tapes allow you to space out the seeds according to the suggested spacing on the back of the seed package or Square Foot Garden spacing recommendations. View a Homemade Seed Mat tutorial at Grow a Good Life.
Soil solarization is simple to do and it will rid your garden of weed seeds. This might be the year that you want to solarize your garden plot!
Vermicomposting, or composting with worms, is probably the fastest way to compost your kitchen waste. Worms that you catch after a rainstorm are usually dew worms while worms you purchase for a compost are red wigglers. The difference between red wigglers and dew worms can make a big difference for your worm bin.
Fresh Basil abounds in the summer! Here’s 12 delicious ways to use it.
