Many people have compost piles, and if you are like me, you don’t manage them very efficiently. Since I am not a fan of managing my pile to break everything down quickly, I tend to have non-composted material in my compost pile this time of year. You can either not add this material to the [...]

Before you plant, it is important to add a complete fertilizer to your soil each year. Most of the nutrients will be abundant in the soil for the whole year. However, the most important nutrient, nitrogen, is something that many of your vegetables need consistently and it happens to be the one that is depleted [...]

As we all know, one of the key ingredients in healthy productive vegetable plants is proper amounts of nutrients. We provide these nutrients to the soil via fertilizer and compost. Anyone trying to grow a garden should know a few basic things about fertilizer. There are 16 elements that plants need to grow. All but [...]