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FREE Garden Journal!!
Join "Garden Notes" and plan for Harvest Success as you track and record your gardening progress. Your Free Personal Garden Journal has pages for jotting down notes on the seeds you start, your new plantings, when you fertilized, and even a graph to plot a new garden.
Have you been struggling to find a failsafe method to grow grapes? A step-by-step system YOU can follow that will guarantee your success?
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A book full of valuable information on how to harvest fresh vegetables and salad ingredients literally year-round--yet without an expensive greenhouse or indoor light garden set-up. Coleman combines succession planting (small sowings three or more times, rather than one big endeavor) with cold-frame growing in the winter months. He includes how-tos for building simple cold-frames.
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The Benefits of Organic Composting
- Produce your own rich, beneficial soil additive
- Discard less garbage and pay lower garbage bills
- Conserve earth's resources
- Protect and improve your environment
Use compost on your yard and garden to improve your soil:
- Compost returns nutrients to the soil such as phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, zinc, manganese, iron and boron
- Compost improves the texture or "tilth" of the soil providing:
- Easier cultivation
- Better water retention in loose or sandy soils
- Better drainage in clay or other heavy soils
- Less plant distress from over wet or over dry conditions
- Healthier plants which require far less commercial chemicals
(fertilizers, pesticides etc.) - Compost reduces soil diseases by feeding the soil a balanced diet
Compost is an attractive and valuable mulch that:
- Promotes weed and erosion control
- Protects plant roots from sun and wind damage
- Conserves water
Make and use compost at home -
SAVE $$ and RESOURCES:
- Lower garbage bills
- Free soil additive, replacing most yard and garden chemicals
- Lower water bills
- Less work weeding
- A feeling of achievement when your yard and garden are more attractive and you are doing your part to save resources - and replenish the earth
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Sustainable Living:
Did You Know...
Declare your yard a "Pesticide Free" Zone!
... and spread the word! Once you've converted your lawn, let the neighborhood know -- maybe you can persuade others. You can Proclaim Organic Pest Control! to post and get tips on talking to neighbors from the Washington Toxics Coalition.
... and spread the word! Once you've converted your lawn, let the neighborhood know -- maybe you can persuade others. You can Proclaim Organic Pest Control! to post and get tips on talking to neighbors from the Washington Toxics Coalition.
