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How To Make Hot Compost

By letter2self on December 18, 2022

Compost is the backbone of your soil. It adds nutrients to your soil and creates optimal soil structure to grow healthy plants. You need at least two bins which are 1x1x1 metre in dimension. Only by creating a pile to a metre high will it reach 70 degrees to cook the compost. You need to…

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10 SECRETS & TIPS TO GROW TONS OF CHILLIES & CAPSICUM IN POTS – ORGANIC GARDENING TIPS

By letter2self on December 18, 2022

How to grow chillies, peppers and capsicum plants in containers and harvest lots of them from a single fruit? This is our today’s episode. Let us learn some easy tips and tricks on how to successfully grow Chilli Peppers including capsicum at home in pots and how to get a better yield growing peppers including…

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How To Care For Indoor Plants – Bunnings Warehouse

By letter2self on December 16, 2022

Adding indoor plants to your house adds life and character and will brighten up your home. They’re such a great way to add style to any space, and good news – plants have mood-boosting qualities, so they’ll actively make your life waaaay better! Here’s your complete guide to growing and caring for them: For more…

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How Your Yard Can Be a Certified Wildlife Habitat & Why It’s Important to Do So

By letter2self on December 16, 2022

Here’s how you can get your yard certified as a National Wildlife Federation Wildlife Habitat! Go to http://nwf.org/Garden-for-Wildlife/Certify To view the checklist and begin the 5 steps to certifying your yard and supporting local wildlife! Ways to support our work: Paypal.me/ParkrosePermaculture www.Patreon.com/ParkrosePermaculture1 www.ko-fi.com/ParkrosePermaculture Songbird deaths per year in the US: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380 Backyard Habitat Cert https://audubonportland.org/get-involved/backyard-habitat-certification-program/…

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Composting in a few easy steps – quick ways to make and use compost in a no dig garden

By letter2self on December 16, 2022

Compost is a superb mulch for no dig beds, an inch or so / 2.5cm annually, for two crops. The compost feeds soil organisms, whose activity and excretions improve soil structure, and provide nutrition for plants. 00:00 Intro 00:25 How to assemble the pallets, very quick and easy 6:45 mid April to end of May…

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10 Years No Dig at Homeacres

By letter2self on December 15, 2022

Showing the changes that have happened since I arrived here autumn 2012, without a masterplan. It was “space out of doors” with almost no garden, a small house which appealed to nobody, and good soil. I thought to make a teaching garden, developed another market garden, and created a base for educating through social media.…

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REVEALING 6 SECRETS OF ALOE VERA FOR YOUR GARDEN | USES OF ALOE VERA IN GARDENING

By letter2self on December 14, 2022

Aloe vera has 6 miraculous uses in gardening. All of us know the numerous benefits of aloe vera to the human body. So, what if I told you that aloe vera can provide many of those same benefits to plants as well? Aloe vera is sometimes known as “the plant of immortality” – because of…

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Cover Crops as Living Mulch under Vegetables, Claire Strader, WI

By letter2self on December 14, 2022

Claire Strader is a small-scale and organic produce educator with FairShare CSA Coalition in Madison, Wisconsin. She received a SARE Partnership Program grant to explore using cover crops as a living mulch for organic vegetables. Learn about this SARE project here: https://projects.sare.org/sare_project/onc15-011/ Source

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Can you grow in only compost?

By letter2self on December 14, 2022

I’ve long been a HUGE fan of Charles Dowding. A rainy Saturday morning with a cup of hot coffee and Charles’ soothing voice sharing his latest No Till and Compost gardening techniques? Count me in! As a result of the influence from Charles, I started using tons of compost in my beds. And this season,…

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Fall Garden Cleanup Begins | Gardening with Creekside

By letter2self on December 13, 2022

Our first freeze warning is only a few days away and so the fall garden cleanup begins! Join me as I spend part of an afternoon cleaning out the annuals surrounding the backyard patio. 🪴 Companies We Partner With 🪴 Proven Winners https://www.provenwinners.com/ Power Planter Garden Augers & Drills https://powerplanter.com/ref/13 Felco (Use GWC10 for 10%…

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