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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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TROUBLESHOOTING COMPOST PROBLEMS
Problems can occur if conditions are unfavorable. Some of the problems are:
- Bad odors indicate that there is not enough air in your pile make more air holes in your pile, or turn the pile, or start a new one.
- Center of the pile is dry means there is not enough water in your pile. Make more air holes, and fill them with water, and the water will disperse throughout the pile. You can also water the pile as you turn it.
- Pile is damp, but only warm in the middle indicates that your pile is too small. Increase the size of your pile to at least four feet high and four feet wide.
- Pile is damp and sweet smelling, but remains cool indicates a lack of nitrogen, not enough green matter (like grass clippings) or manure. Cover the pile with black plastic for a few days, but be careful not to cook all your microbes. The pile also may need more water.
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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.
