a time to plant

When we first started our garden spot is was really bad soil. But it was a good spot. I figured it was easier to improve the soil than to move the sun or the hill so that is what we have been working n for 4 years. It is now really good. But we still [...]

March 3rd, 2009 by Penny 

garden tea

All of this lovely mess will be used initially when we first plant the garden, but we will also keep compost piles going for later. You don’t usually want to put the compost directly on the plants until it is well aged but there is another way to use it that can even work for [...]

February 27th, 2009 by Penny 

composting

When composting your manure you can also add in other plant waste products. Other plant waste products would be potatoes peels, fruit peels, egg shells, coffee grounds, and all those thousands of pounds of leaves your youngins raked up and jumped in and re-raked. If you happen to be getting your horse manure from a [...]

February 17th, 2009 by Penny