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I am not a novice to organic gardening, but I have never focused on growing vegetables before. I bought this book thinking it would be a good reference book to get started. It is that and more. The book is extremely easy to navigate;…

How To Soak Seed Before Planting: Take a small bowl and fill it with water from your tap, as hot as your tap will allow. Once your bowl is filled with hot water, place your seeds inside the bowl. Then allow the seeds to stay in the water as…

Snipping off the “suckers” from a tomato bush will help the plant to focus its power on the rising fruits instead of the leafs, Growing better, healthier fruit. Clipping any branches off at the bottom of the tomato plant that is reaching…

First don't Worry about Rot simply Paint on a few coats of water Based Water Proofer to both sides of the wood . The same as used on decks and Fences . If you are in an Area where you would Worry about Termites simply buy a few blocks of…

The best way to prevent an invasion of cabbage loopers is to place row cover over plants as soon as they are put in the ground, and leave the covering on until the harvest is over. The cover will prevent most of the worms and moths from…

Select pallets stamped with the letters "HT," which indicates that they have been heat-treated, and not treated with chemicals that can leach into the soil and contaminate plants meant to be consumed such as herbs, vegetables and fruit.…

Plant tomatoes where they will get at least 10 hours of light in summer. Alternate your tomato bed between even just two spots and you diminish the risk of soilborne diseases such as bacterial spot and early blight. When buying tomato…

Those worms on your geraniums are The larvae of a small, beige moth called Heliothis virescens or Helicoverpa virescens, which feeds especially on Nicotiana species. The budworms are one of the most destructive pests of tobacco and cotton…

How to : First fill your pot with cacti potting mix. Wet your sphagnum moss. Then squeeze any exess water out. Then put on top of the cacti potting mix. You hould remove any hard stems from the moss. then vreate a mounded top from…

How to make a seed spacing template: Take a 2' wide piece of plywood and we cut it 2' x 2', then measure it into 2" grids. then use 3/4" wood screws at the 2" marks, and then screwe the wine corks that were cut into 1" length onto each…