15 Organic Soil Amendments for your Garden

Details: Written by Tom Tolisano

Healthy Soil

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All of the listed materials are useful amendments. Their availability depends on where you live.

1. Redwood Products. Can be granular or fibrous. Works in well to the soil and is long lasting. Low salinity. Use in soil or containers. Low in nitrogen and poor in nutrient holding.

10 Heirloom Vegetables for Taste and Successful Gardens

Details: Written by Tom Tolisano

Heirloom Vegetables

There are three major reasons for using an Heirloom Vegetable Seed over other seeds. The first attribute of an Heirloom is the age. Plants before 1951 are Heirloom. Around this time the first hybrid seeds were being developed. Many of these plants had evolved long before modern chemical fertilizers and pesticides and resistance to pests and disease were in these plants genetic codes. imagesCAUF23C9crop heirloom seeds vegetable gardening directions