Why Grow Cover Crops: Easy Soil Improvement
Discover the power of cover crops for easy soil improvement in your garden. Enhance soil health, suppress weeds, and attract beneficial insects with these natural helpers.
Cover Crops Beat Garden Weeds
Planting cover crops benefits your garden in many ways, beyond just soil improvement. Weed suppression, attracting pollinators, and nutrients for next season are some examples.
Spring Garden Soil Elixir
A Spring garden soil elixir that is easy to mix, completely non-toxic and hugely beneficial to jump-starting your garden's soil for planting.
Beneficial Soil Organisms – the Team Players
Beneficial soil organisms are the team players working tirelessly to improve your garden soil and feed your plants. Learn who they are and how to help them!
Which cover crop mix is best for me?
Our cover crop mixes benefit the soil in multiple ways. You can't go wrong with either one, so we’ll show you which one is best for your garden.
Cover Crops – Better Soil in a Month
Cover crops – also called green manures – have improved soil for thousands of years. We look at what one month of growth provides in an average raised bed.
Cover Crops FAQ
Our cover crops have created lots of questions about how to use them, so we've made this article a Q&A format for the most frequent questions.
Milk and Molasses – Magic for Your Garden
Do you know the magic of milk and molasses in improving your garden? Plain old milk is a miracle for plants, soil and compost. Molasses boosts the benefits!
Compost – What We’ve Learned
Compost is one of those foundational cornerstones of any successful garden. It really is simple to make and we'll show you how we do it!
Best Homemade Fish Emulsion
Fish emulsion feeds the soil and plants with biologically available nutrients while increasing soil and microbe health. Make the best emulsion at home!
Coffee Grounds Build Compost and Soil Health
Coffee grounds are great for soil, providing minerals and energy to decomposing microbes, buffering soil pH and feeding earthworms.
How Milk Improves Soil Health
Milk, in surprisingly small amounts, can make multiple significant positive impacts on the health and productivity of your entire garden.
Compost- Nourishing Your Garden Soil
Compost is one of the best and easiest ways to feed your garden soil and should be used instead of commercial chemical fertilizers.
Mineral Restoration of Your Garden Soil Part II
There are many ways to introduce needed minerals into your garden. We show how to address the trace elements that are limiting factors when not present.
Mineral Restoration of Your Garden Soil
How to build healthy, vibrant garden soil that is not only incredibly productive but provides pest and disease resilience with mineral restoration.
Terra Preta- Magic Soil of the Lost Amazon Part II
How using Stone Age agriculture may just be the best way to build the health, fertility, resiliency and nutrient cycling of the soil several fold.
Terra Preta- Magic Soil of the Lost Amazon
This is a different approach for creating a healthy garden, starting with the soil. What we have learned is that everything really does start with the soil.