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Dark Gold: Garden Compost
frankbeswick, Thank you for product lines, pretty pictures and practical information.
In particular, I appreciate your second paragraph under your subheading Black Gold. I focus so much upon the soil benefits that I forget how compost bolsters ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/17/2022
Soil Enhancers
frankbeswick, Thank you for practical information, pretty pictures and product lines.
In particular, I appreciate your appreciation of natural soil-fertilizing resources. Your subheading on compost called to mind a comment that you made ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/17/2022
Dig for Victory: again
Everyone should grow their own preferences.that keeps up motivation.
frankbeswick, on 06/17/2022
Saving the Soil
I am prepared to let plants grow under trees,as you suggest,but not edibles,as my experience leads me to think that the tree gives too much competition for nutrients.
frankbeswick, on 06/17/2022
Saving the Soil
Thanks.
frankbeswick, on 06/17/2022
A Visit to the Giant's Causeway
Mainly chemical, but there was some use of seaweed as fertiliser
frankbeswick, on 06/17/2022
How To Sell Foods at Farmers Markets
Re-visiting your wizzley brought to mind what I've been intending to ask with my re-reads.
Farmer's markets carry what most interests me: fresh foods. I go to community events even as they so often have baked goods, which I appreciate but which ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/16/2022
Amazing Aloe Vera Health Benefits and Herbal Home Remedies
WriterArtist, Thank you for product lines, pretty pictures and practical information.
In particular, I appreciate aloe vera as home remedy for allergies, burns and wounds. Oftentimes, bunch-grass blades end up slicing my fingers when I don't ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/16/2022
Genealogical Hobbies: Sample Searches of Joseph Lockard Martin Jr
WriterArtist, The survey results, for the second spot in most popular hobbies, from the Marist Institute for Public Opinion in Poughkeepsie, New York, surprised me too.
But then I think about the many, many housewives with school-age children ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/16/2022
Guido Brunetti Gardens: Derivative Donna Leon Gardens for Fathers Day
WriterArtist, It's generally a rarity here unless the flowers are as seeds or specimens from expensive species for collectors or for men who really, really love to garden and participate in flower shows.
But then, on the other hand, I know here ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/16/2022
Strawberry Party Supplies
Janet21, Thank you for product lines, pretty pictures and practical information.
In particular, I appreciate the favor boxes and theme fabric. Every year gives me many, many strawberries, which grow wild amid the east, north, south and west ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/16/2022
Picnic Baskets for Summer
mulberry, Thank you for product lines, pretty pictures and practical information.
In particular, I appreciate the basket choices, from old-fashioned to modern baskets with cold and hot compartments. I like the farmhouse basket even as I see the ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/16/2022
Dig for Victory: again
In particular, your description of community allotments attracts my attention.
How do you envision the basic organization? Is it that certain fruits and vegetables would be grown by all? And might it be that everyone also could grow their ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/16/2022
Saving the Soil
Under your subheading Roots and Hyphae, your fifth paragraph considers not digging up hedges unnecessarily and not digging around trees.
Would you tend not to let edible, grassy or ornamental plants grow from around the trunk base outward to ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/16/2022
Saving the Soil
It's disappointing that such an effective extension service (at least before COVID, during and after which I have no experience) finds no public counterpart on your side of the (Atlantic) pond, where it seems not to promise to arise or fare as ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/16/2022