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UF Hack: Speed Up Composting With A Mow-Over

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Grinding up your compostables into smaller pieces aids in the decomposition process, meaning you’ll have black gold in no time.

7 Tips To Plan For Pollinators

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Planting a garden that fosters native pollinators will create a circular relationship that benefits plants and insects alike.

UF Hack: Multi-Grafted Fruit Trees

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Grow many types of fruit in a small space by grafting several different fruit cultivars onto one rootstock.

UF Hack: Renew Fruit Trees With Pollarding

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Give an old, unproductive orchard tree new life with this historical pruning method.

3 Ways to Start the Spring Garden with Cold Frames

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Add four weeks to the front of the growing season by using cold frames to start your garden.

How to Start Seeds Indoors

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Grow healthy crops from start to finish by setting up an indoor seed-starting station.

6 Compost Problems and How to Fix Them

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Composting is pretty easy, but every once in awhile, you run into a snafu. Use these tips to troubleshoot your problems.

5 Herbs Perfect For Container Gardening

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Short on space but want to grow your own kitchen staples? These herbs are the best place to start.

Compost Tea: Quench Your Garden’s Thirst

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You already compost—you do compost, don’t you?—use compost in your garden and container plants, and understand all of the soil-building benefits that compost provides. Now it’s time to familiarize yourself with compost tea, an easy-to-make brew using black gold. It’s too easy, in fact, to not  take full advantage of it. This is the key […]

6 Problems With City Composting—And What You Can Do About It

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From space constraints to to foul odors, composting in the city isn’t easy, so take matters into your own hands.

7 Crops to Kick Off Your Spring Garden

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Is your green thumb itching to get gardening again? These cold-loving crops will help you get the growing season started.

The Key to Safe Mushroom Foraging

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Mushroom foraging is a skill that requires time and experience. Beginners who want to do it safely need to embrace a simple three-letter word.

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