Make Compost Tea For Your Garden Soil (Excerpt)
March 10, 2023Give your soil a boost with some homemade compost tea. In this book excerpt, author Chris McLaughlin tells you how to “brew” your own.
Give your soil a boost with some homemade compost tea. In this book excerpt, author Chris McLaughlin tells you how to “brew” your own.
If you get some livestock manure compost from a neighbor or your own animals, the broken-down material can be a big boost to garden soil efficiency and overall structure.
Something went really wrong inside this plastic compost bin, which was too cold and stinky, but we set things right with a simple makeover.
Grinding up your compostables into smaller pieces aids in the decomposition process, meaning you’ll have black gold in no time.
From space constraints to to foul odors, composting in the city isn’t easy, so take matters into your own hands.
Go forth and make compost. And with these tips, make it with little effort at all.
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Courtesy iStockphoto/Thinkstock For more effective watering, put the watering can aside and use a drip irrigation system to hydrate your garden crops. To make the job even easier, hook the sytem up to an automatic timer. When the summer sun is sizzling, don’t feel like you have to make the decision of running up a high water bill […]
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