I love rain harvesting. My rainwater barrel is super cool and a good metaphor for water conservation. But I find it interesting to actually run the math and see how little water they hold, and I wonder if they are…
There are many mulch types available for your organic garden, but which is the best mulch for you? This article explores some of the most popular types of mulch and ultimately comes to a conclusion with what you should use….
Gardeners ask how to improve clay soil more often than about improving sandy soil, but the reasons are generally the same, and the main reason has to do with water. In many gardens, clay doesn’t infiltrate and drain fast enough…
Garden tilling is often done with a gas-powered rototiller that goes down perhaps 6 or so inches, or tilling soil can be done with a tool such as a pitchfork, too. So what is tilling? However you do it, you’re…
Vegetable garden maintenance is easy when you’ve gone through the process of designing and installing a healthy organic vegetable garden.
We use microbial inoculants because we generally need to increase the diversity and number of soil microbes in our soil food web. (Update: 2 years after creating these lessons, I decided to start selling these inoculants, so you can now…
Planting a garden is simple when you’ve done some proper garden soil preparation.
This is part 2 of garden soil preparation.
We’re ready to learn how to prepare a garden bed now. To prepare the bed, first put a rough edge on with a spade to define the garden.
Before you prepare the bed, you’ll want to think about supplementing nutrients. Today I’m going to cover the organic soil amendments you can feel free to use even if you didn’t take a soil test first.
There are many benefits of composting and using it in your organic garden.
It’s important to do some basic garden soil testing before you plant or even design your garden. Check out this video to see what I mean. Actually, I ideally want to learn a lot about the soil, because by far…