Bloom Boosters are said to increase the number of flowers on your plant. Nonsense. They don’t work, and can actually…
Almost daily, I see a post in social media about using Epsom salt to cure all manner of plant problem. Planting a new plant;…
Human and animal waste is considered to be a good garden fertilizer in much of the world. In more civilized countries we call…
One of the claimed benefits of compost in the garden is to provide the soil and plants with enzymes and hormones. Is this…
In past posts I have talked about some of the benefits of compost. It improves soil structure and it adds nutrients to the…
In my last post Compost – Is it an Organic Fertilizer, I concluded that compost was an organic fertilizer and that it…
Compost is good for the garden, in part, because it adds nutrients for the plants. That sounds like a fertilizer. But almost…
In my last post I talked about fertilizing container gardens containing a soil-less mix. In this post I’ll look at some…
Bokashi composting, also spelled bocashi composting, is a new way to deal with kitchen scraps. The proponents of the system…