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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Book of the Month
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.
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
... 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.