How To Plant Tomatoes

How To Transplant Tomatoes

Tomatoes are by far the most popular vegetable (actually, it's a fruit) grown in home vegetable gardens.There are many different ways of planting tomatoes and everyone has their own way. Many gardeners have certain rituals and techniques they use to plant tomatoes, and some even get down right religious about their methods.There are no right or wrong ways to plant a tomato as long as the plant grows to become vigorous and productive … [Read more...]

The Best Organic Fertilizers for a Vegetable Garden

The Best Organic Fertilizers for a Vegetable Garden

As vegetable gardeners, we are always faced with a myriad of questions. There are so many different choices in vegetable varieties, tool options, and much, much more. One of the most common questions many gardeners ask is, "What fertilizers should I use?". This is a great question because there are so many fertilizer options with many different applications, it can easily send a gardener into a whirlwind of confusion and doubt.If you are … [Read more...]

Earthworms – The Unseen Workers Of Vegetable Garden Soil

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The next time you venture out into your vegetable garden, you might want to make a quick check of the health of your garden soil. One very easy way to do this is to see how many earthworms you find lurking in the soil.Take a garden fork, plunge it into the soil, wiggle it back and forth, and see if you can find any earthworms wiggling in the soil. You can also use a small shovel or post hole diggers, and take a small sample section of soil. … [Read more...]

8 Unusual Items for Fertilizing Tomatoes

8 Unusual Items for Fertilizing Tomatoes

Just about every tomato grower has a secret weapon for growing those perfect tomatoes. There are just about as many different methods that people use to grow tomatoes as there are tomato varieties.Organic gardening methods have brought about many homemade tomato fertilizers and techniques - not to mention the plight to be more frugal.Here are eight strange things that I have used, seen, read, or heard about for fertilizing tomatoes. … [Read more...]

How Compost Improves Soil Health

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Adding compost to your garden soil will help to improve just about any soil type - whether it is clay, sand, or silt. There are two things that unhealthy soils lack: microorganisms and organic materials. Truthfully, you need the organic materials in order to attract the microorganisms.Remember the movie Field of Dreams? "Build it and they will come".It is pretty much the same for those beneficial microorganisms. Enrich the soil with … [Read more...]

Understanding Soil Nutrients – Potassium

Understanding Soil Nutrients - Potassium

This is the third entry for the Understanding Soil Nutrients Series. Today we will focus our attention on a very important soil nutrient – potassium. If you missed the first and second entries to this series, here they are:Understanding Soil Nutrients – NitrogenUnderstanding Soil Nutrients - PhosphorusWhy Potassium is Important To Your Vegetable GardenPotassium (K) is generally called potash when used in forms for a soil … [Read more...]

Understanding Soil Nutrients – Phosphorus

Understanding Soil Nutrients - Phosphorus

This is the second entry for the Understanding Soil Nutrients Series. Today we will focus our attention on a very important soil nutrient - phosphorus. If you missed the first entry to this series, here it is:Understanding Soil Nutrients - NitrogenWhy Is Phosphorus Important To My Vegetable Garden Plants?Plants need phosphorus for strong root growth, fruit, stem and seed development, disease resistance, and general plant vigor. … [Read more...]

Understanding Soil Nutrients – Nitrogen

Understanding Soil Nutrients - Nitrogen

This is Part One of a four part series titled, Understanding Soil Nutrients. Each day this week will bring a new article on soil nutrients, with Thursday being the final article.The first part of the Understanding Soil Nutrients series will be on nitrogen. As vegetable gardeners, nitrogen can play a key factor in whether our vegetables grow successfully or are doomed for failure. Too much nitrogen can mean big, bushy plants that have … [Read more...]

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