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How To Make Your Own Organic Fertilizer

Tammy Clayton

If you’re like anyone else, you have a continual supply of food waste that is being thrown away. That’s not just money down the drain, but the start of free nutrition for your garden plants. Its organic too, as long as you use only food scraps that were organically grown. Trace elements of GMOs and…

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Food Deserts, Kids & The Future of Sustainable Living

Like many a parent, I always assumed that learning about growing food was something best left for when kids were older. Wrong! A lesson learned on a simple outing to entertain a 3-year old with a budget of zero. Perhaps it all went down like it did because grandparents have more time to dream up…
February 20, 2013
Tammy Clayton

Exactly What Is the Problem Here?

At the first sign of plant stress, in both indoor and outdoor gardening, the less experienced grower does one of two things. Either they pour on more fertilizer, or increase their watering. So it shouldn’t be surprising at all to learn that the most common problems in the indoor hydroponics garden are also related to these…
October 23, 2012
Tammy Clayton

Great Hydroponics Ideas, But…

There are some really cool ideas for indoor gardening floating around the internet. To the unaware, they might not work out that well. DIY hydroponics setups are hot. A great looking idea that is really creative or has great artistic aesthetics gets shared on tons of blog and magazine type sites. It’s exciting to see…
October 17, 2012
Tammy Clayton

Yikes! What’s Up With Yellow Leaves?

And you thought that plants had nothing to say. Let something in their environment or diet get out of whack, and they can have plenty to say. Sometimes they even scream – silently. It’s important that you know what a healthy plant in your new crop looks like, otherwise the early signs of trouble won’t…
October 13, 2012
Tammy Clayton

Preserving Seed Long Term

If you’re at all familiar with vegetables outdoors, you might have noticed that the packets of seed you purchase every spring all have a ‘packed for’ date somewhere on the envelope. If you purposefully purchase outdated seed, chances are you’ll have a disappointing germination rate, perhaps no sown seed will germinate at all. This leads…
October 11, 2012
Tammy Clayton