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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Weeds in Hard to get Places
by John on May 30, 2011
It never ceases to amaze me how weeds have a knack for getting into just the right places so it’s nearly impossible to spray or even pull them. Like weeds that grow immediately next to a desirable plant or weedy grasses that grow in between the desirable grasses of your lawn. There are two ways [...]
‘Pre-emergent’ Herbicide
by John on March 23, 2011
Pre-emergent herbicides are chemicals that kill seeds in the ground before they even start growing; in other words, before the seeds sprout and ‘emerge’ from the soil. These types of herbicides only kill seeds – they don’t kill already existing plants. Using pre-emergent herbicides significantly reduces weeding since a lot of the weed seeds are [...]
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John and Anni


