GARDEN –
Soil: Fertilizer, Nutrients & Compost
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GARDEN : What Actually Creates a Productive Garden? (video)
I am going to try something really different…a standard article of mine and also a video from the same article. Why? I really don’t know. I just wanted to try something different. I will post…
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GARDEN : Turning Weeds Into Fertilizer
For me…weed tea is optional but could be really important. How does it do both? What if there was no fertilizer available? Or, maybe you wanted to save some money by not buying commercial fertilizer.…
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GARDEN : Seedling & Potting Soil
I posted an article on soil amendments and what each is and does. < click here > What I will do today is tell you a bit about how I actually use those products with…
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GARDEN : Update! (05/20/2026)
An absolutely gorgeous morning!!! It is crisp and cool this morning, a bit more humidity freshening the air, and just enough cloud cover to make it a little different than most mornings. And best…
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GARDEN: Fertilizer N-P-K Numbers and What It Means…
Walk into any garden center and you’ll see fertilizer bags with numbers such as 10-10-10, 20-5-10, 5-10-10, etc. To many gardeners, those numbers look like some kind of secret code…they’re not. Those three numbers represent…
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GARDEN : Secondary Nutrients & Micronutrients
In the last article I covered N-P-K as the primary nutrients. < click here to read that article > Now I’ll cover calcium, magnesium, and sulfur as secondary nutrients. And I’ll include iron and micronutrients…
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GARDEN : Fertilizer…synthetic vs organic
I’m going to avoid the usual “organic good / synthetic bad” trench warfare. This is a fact…Plants don’t care where nutrients come from. A tomato plant does not know whether Nitrogen came from composted chicken…
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GARDEN : Soil Amendments…Better & Healthier Soil & Plants!
It’s vitally important to have healthy soil to grow healthy produce…and a lot of it. To that end I will cover; Biochar, Blood Meal, Bone Meal, Coco Coir, Compost, Gypsum, Leaf Mold, Mulch, Peat Moss,…
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GARDEN : Strawberry Patch Problems…again!
It just never seems to end with me and my strawberry patch! It is getting old…really, really, old. Over the weekend (last weekend) I went out and really studied my strawberry patch. Remember, it was…
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GARDEN : Let’s talk mulch…ah, compost…
Funny thing…mulch and compost are often confused and used interchangeably. Well, depending on the “mulch” you can use it as compost. But, a lot of mulch isn’t compost. For this article I will be…
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GARDEN: Mellon Patch Disaster !
Follow-up article from < GARDEN : Planting butternut squash, cantaloupe, & watermelon… > Note: Originally written on April 28th, updated on May2nd. I’ve been working on a melon patch for a couple months. Why? Last…
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GARDEN : Planting butternut squash, cantaloupe, & watermelon…
Time to get them in the ground and growing ! ! Note: Originally written in mid-April…the actual planting took place at the end of March. It’s early but it looks like no more freezes at…
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GARDEN : Replenishing Raised Beds
It’s getting close to panting time so that means getting my raised beds ready for all those new plants coming from my greenhouse. I built the beds a couple of years ago and here’s how…
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Sometimes I just get excited…
So there I was Friday night…out to dinner with my wife celebrating 21 years together, wedded bliss. Yeah, hard to believe that someone would put up with me for 21 whole years. I guess she…
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GARDEN : Disaster Strikes !
Some days you just wanna…well, wonder what the heck is going on. Last Saturday morning was one of those days…disaster had struck in the garden the night before. Well, technically in the greenhouse…but it is…
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GARDEN : Strawberries – Planting Bare Root
First time for everything! I’ve been sharing my love of strawberries for years, and my desire to have a strawberry patch. After years of learning about strawberries and how to grow them in this area,…
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GARDEN : Strawberries – Planting Live Plants
This experience couldn’t have been more different than the “bare root” experience. I bought my 20 Eversweet plants from an Etsy vendor…GrowYourOwnFoodShop. I’ve written about them before, they are the folks from whom I purchased…
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Q & A : Seedlings
I got a couple of questions from my latest “glamstead” article… < click here to read that article > What do you use for potting soil? I’ve used different versions. I’ve also…
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GARDEN : Perlite vs Vermiculite
I am no master gardener…not by a long shot. But, my thumb is fairly green. In years past, pretty much all my life, I’ve done pretty well with vegetable and flower gardens. I did have…
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Strawberry Update…Success !
Okay, enough of the current events and political opinion stuff…how about some glamstead garden info? Several years ago I purchased some strawberry plants from a local big box DIY store, they were Sequoia variety. I…