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Compost Tea Made Easy

January 29, 2019 by fifthseason Leave a Comment

-Gabrial House- With spring approaching, it’s time to start thinking about your garden, and the best way to help your plants fight off heat, high humidity, and the dry soil that’s sure to come. For me, the best route to take is treating my garden to a fresh batch of compost tea.  As the name implies, compost tea is made by steeping compost in water, and using the resulting liquid gold on or around your plants. Most of us know the benefits that compost provides to our garden soil, but … [Read more...] about Compost Tea Made Easy

Filed Under: Organic Gardening Tagged With: Compost, Compost Tea, fertilizer, organic garden, Organic gardening, soil fertility, spring gardening

Cover Crop Spotlight | Vetch and Winter Rye

August 21, 2014 by fifthseason Leave a Comment

Cover Crop Spotlight Double Feature: Vetch and Winter Rye! For those of you in Zone 7 or 8 considering a late season cover crop, it's not too late to sow some slightly hardier seeds and establish a nice crop before our harder frosts in a couple months. Cover crops are commonly combined in order to provide synergistic results in the garden. A great example of this is the pairing of Vetch with Winter Rye.  Vetch is a leguminous, vining forage that is used extensively as a green manure crop. As a … [Read more...] about Cover Crop Spotlight | Vetch and Winter Rye

Filed Under: Organic Gardening Tagged With: Cover crop, crop rotation, Legume, soil fertility, Soil improvement, Vetch, Winter Rye

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