Fertilizers

7 Eco-Friendly Tips for Using Fall Leaves

7 Eco-Friendly Tips for Using Fall Leaves We had a huge rainstorm last week, and the next day, most of the trees in my garden dropped all their leaves. With…

How To Make Calcium Powder From Eggshells

We grow lots of tomatoes for eating and turning into canned salsa and tomato sauce. The secret to growing healthy tomatoes is calcium powder. Tomatoes rely on calcium…

Fredrika Syren
Gardening, Urban Homestead
Jun, 25, 2023
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The Art of Creating Good Gardening Soil

In order to have plants thrive in a successful vegetable garden, healthy soil is key. The blog organic gardeningexplains that we should ”feed the soil, not the plant” to create a natural soil without the use…

Fredrika Syren
Gardening
Apr, 01, 2021
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The Benefits of Creating Compost Tea

Nourishment for your plants is enhanced by applying mature compost in the form of compost tea, also known as liquid gold.
Finished compost, also known as black gold, not only feeds the good microbes by increasing…

Larraine Roulston
Uncategorized
May, 09, 2019
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Bokashi Composting—From Scraps to Fertilizer

Composting is a great way to reduce your waste load and at the same time create something earth craves…pure nutrients. On our homestead we have four ways we compost: a worm compost, a garden…

Fredrika Syren
Gardening, Composting
May, 07, 2018
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The Problem with Synthetic Fertilizers

By Emelie Sandström:

Todayʼs agriculture looks very different from the systems we had in the past. In the beginning, we hunted animals and collected what we could find to eat. This then lead to our…

Emelie
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Dec, 10, 2014
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DYI Compost Bin

Compost is like miracle soil: it helps sandy soil hold nutrients and moisture, and loosens heavy clay so plants can breathe. The beneficial micro-organisms in compost help your plants grow strong and healthy. As it…

Fredrika Syren
Gardening, Composting
Feb, 22, 2013
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