1. Ignoring Soil Health: attempting to grow high quality plants from a low quality soil There’s nothing better than sinking your teeth into your own home-grown, delicious, nutrient-rich food. That kind of food not only tastes amazing, it works wonders for your health. Where do plants get the nutrients necessary to create such flavorful and [...]
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Disease-Free Plants
Plants don’t possess an immune system like we do. They don’t have antibodies or white blood cells that actively seek out and kill diseases that infect them. Plants fight their biological battles with chemistry. Plants manufacture chemicals that are toxic (called secondary metabolites) and move these chemicals throughout their systems in order to kill whatever [...]
Preparing New Clay Pots
Before putting your plants into brand new clay pots it is a good idea to first soak the pots in a solution of compost tea or fertilizer and water for an hour or so. The compost tea at a normal dilution should be sufficient, or with the fertilizer and water mix, the concentration in the [...]
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