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Is Your Garden Soil Ready For Fall Planting?

  • Oct 21st, 2008
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  • Fertilization, Garden Maintenance, garden mentor, moving plants, soil, transplanting
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    • Yesterday, I worked with a client to install shrubs along his foundation. When he bought his new home earlier this year, the sellers had left a mishmash of polka dot plantings along the south side and a grassy mess of spiraea along the west side foundation. The polka dots were clearly the result of a [...]

    Nitrogen Fixing Root Nodules

  • Sep 23rd, 2008
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  • Edible Gardens, Fertilization, Food, soil, vegetable gardening
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    • I several previous posts I’ve talked about fixing nitrogen. This symbiotic work between plants, fungi and soil is a great way to easily help your garden. And, its inexpensive!
    Yesterday, as I was clearing out beds of summer vegies to make way for fall plantings, including nitrogen-fixing fava beans, I pulled out spent green bean plants. [...]