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Lawn Care Simplified Yellow Nutsedge is a Troublesome Weed Eight reasons to test your soil The Luna Moth What is the difference between Cool Season & Warm Season Vegetables UK Research show Urban Gardens Aid in Pollinator Conservation 10 Common Plants to Avoid Calendar of Events
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GARDEN THOUGHTS For me Gardening is therapy and usually a time to be alone with my thoughts (and often 2 times the chickens are there as uninvited quests just waiting for fresh earth to explore) Spring is the 4 epitome of renewal and growth and there is nothing more satisfying than watching the 6 progress of a well tended garden.
in the area you need. After a couple of years of this it is unbelievable the number of macro organisms (earthworms) that are present in the soil just below the mulch. They enjoy processing the chippings and depositing them in the soil as organic matter an minerals. This single process, and there are hundreds of other 7 I have taken a bit organisms working of a different there as well, approach this increases the tilth, year and trying to take a organic matter content, water holding capacity, soil structure 8 longer view of the garden by installing more of the bones and so much more. Adding and soil health building organic matter is the only way components. As far as the alleviate the compaction and soil health is concerned I have the potential for compaction in begun to use simple tree our clay soils. Clay is not bad 10 chippings from a tree in and of itself, it has excellent trimming company that is nutrient holding capacity, about a year old. After the water holding capacity and year of sitting in a pile I then structure, but compaction can 12 re-chip it to become a less occur quickly ruining all the coarse material and then top good. Therefore, stay out of it when its wet, add organic 15 dress the beds. The benefit of whole tree chippings is that matter often, let the macro you get all the nutrients the organisms do the tillage work tree took up during its life and soil test every few years. and you then redeposit them 1