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Make Your Own Organic Soil Mix

Evan Folds

[et_pb_image _builder_version=”3.2.1″ src=”https://gardenculturemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/GC-stamp-800x800px.png” url=”https://gardenculturemagazine.com/our-magazine/united-kingdom-ireland-issue-07/” url_new_window=”on” /] This article was originally published in 2015 and appeared in Garden Culture Magazine UK, Issue 7 Soil is like water. Both sustain life as we know it, yet they are so omnipresent that we take them for granted. And due to both their importance and complexity, the limitations of language cannot do them…

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What Is Fertilizer, Anyway? Part 1

The technology of farming is what literally started humanity. That’s right, before farming we hunted and gathered with most of our attention paid to survival instead of specializing.
November 21, 2016
Evan Folds

Totally Natural Indoor Garden System

Imagine an indoor garden system that is more like an outdoor garden. As in, you simply prep for planting, make sure the soil doesn’t get too dry, and soon you’re harvesting great tasting fresh food and herbs. Sans the weeding, of course. And no matter what the weather is doing, you can garden year around. Yes,…
October 14, 2016
Callie

Straw Bale Garden: Take 2, Scene 2

If you’re going to grow a straw bale garden, adding compost tea with microbes is a definite asset. Not just during conditioning the bales for introducing microbes that make the composting process possible, but in your fertilizing schedule. The difference it makes in growth and vigor is remarkable. Last week, in the Scene 1 of this saga,…
September 2, 2016
Tammy Clayton

Biodynamic Gardening: Perfect Soil Balance

Think about it, some of the most important things regarding the evaluation of a garden and the food it produces cannot be observed. The majority of people don’t imagine that the soil is alive and teaming with beneficial microbes because they can’t see them. Most think microbes are for hand sanitizer or antibiotics.
October 19, 2015
Evan Folds