Garden Soil Solutions from Black Gold
Collection by Black Gold
Great gardens start with great soils. Learn to amend and build your soils to cultivate different plants in landscapes, gardens, and containers. #garden #soil #amendments #soilscience #soilfertility
Overcoming Problems With Ornamental Grasses
When landscape grasses take on full autumn color in the western states, they are always the focal point of the late season. It is the driest part of the year when their life cycle peaks after flowers pollinate... #grass #ornamental #garden #problems #solutions
Garden Plants that Feed Soil Naturally - Fafard
Nitrogen is one of the most essential #plant nutrients, and one of the best ways to boost nitrogen in your soil is to grow #nitrogen "fixing" plants. This amazing group of plants naturally add nitrogen into the soil by taking #nitrogen from the air and converting it into a usable form in the #garden soil.
How Do You Know If You Have Healthy Soil? - Creative Vegetable Gardener
If you don't have healthy soil it's going to be really hard to grow a vegetable garden. Here's how to figure it out.
Potting Soil Makes Hanging Baskets Resilient - BLACK GOLD
Once you discover how a climatically formulated potting soil improves your hanging baskets, you'll never settle for anything else.
Double Digging for Flawless Fall Root Crops - BLACK GOLD
Double digging is the process of digging deeply to ensure soil is light and porous down deep.
How To Cure Chlorosis With Earthworm Castings Tea - BLACK GOLD
Chlorosis is caused by a nutrient deficiency. Let's learn more about the condition and how to cure chlorosis with earthworm castings tea.
Mulching for Water Conservation - Black Gold
Spring Garden Soil Amendment - Black Gold
Maintaining Soil Health for Plant Health - Black Gold
In many of these web articles, I have often stressed the importance of soil health. Whenever we plant something in the ground it offers an opportunity to amend the soil around and below the root zone.
Tips to Make Gardening Easier
When visiting other gardens and with other gardeners, I find that people enjoy sharing their tips to make gardening easier.
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What is Vermiculture? - Worms For Composting The earthworm is the garden’s hardest worker and will turn regular garden soil into super soil that can grow just about anything. They also regulate the amount of air and water that can get into the soil by creating a path as they eat their way around.
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A premium blend of fine soil improver and composted manure, perfect for putting life back into tired, heavy or light soils.
Double Digging for Flawless Fall Root Crops - BLACK GOLD
Double digging is the process of digging deeply to ensure soil is light and porous down deep.
The Benefits Of Garden Mulch | Homesteading Tips
Want to know the benefits of garden mulch? If you're looking for a new way to garden consider using mulch. The options are endless and the benefits rock.
Mulching With Black Gold Amendments
When the drought it long, soils are poor, and money is short, one answer to revitalize struggling garden plants is to mulch. Good mulches help to retain moisture, shade the soil so it's cooler in the root zone, and discourage weeds. Mulching With Black Gold Amendments