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6 Tips for Building Soil for Your Raised Garden Beds and Planters

By Greg Seaman, Posted January 31st, 2012

Here are some tips for building productive soil for your garden beds and planters – while there are some differences based on locale, these tips pretty much apply anywhere…

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Fall is the Season for Mulching with Leaves!

By Greg Seaman, Posted November 3rd, 2011

It is a rare and beautiful thing when something of value falls right into our laps…

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7 Ways Organic Farms Outperform Conventional Farms

By Greg Seaman, Posted October 24th, 2011

Sustainable, organic farming practices are the best way to feed the future…

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Plant a Fall Cover Crop to Improve Your Garden Soil

By Greg Seaman, Posted September 21st, 2011

With ‘cover crops’ your garden will work for you right through the winter months.

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Tips for Growing the Best Winter Storage Vegetable – Winter Squash!

By Greg Seaman, Eartheasy.com, Posted August 5th, 2011

This overlooked garden gift is easy to grow, high in nutritional value, and can be stored all winter…

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Grasscycling – The Easiest Way to Nurture Your Lawn

By Eartheasy.com, Posted June 15th, 2011

This simple lawn care method will reduce lawn maintenance, retain water, and fertilize your lawn naturally…

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Composter Give-Away: Jora JK125 Compost Tumbler

By Eartheasy.com, Posted June 1st, 2011

We are giving away one of our top-of-the-line insulated compost tumblers to an Eartheasy fan…

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5 Easy to Grow Mosquito-Repelling Plants

By Eartheasy.com, Posted April 28th, 2011

Before reaching for the chemical sprays, try planting these easy-to-grow plants which have natural mosquito-repelling properties…

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5 Secrets to a ‘No-work’ Garden

By Greg Seaman, Eartheasy.com, Posted April 26th, 2011

It took over 20 years of gardening to realize that I didn’t have to work so hard to achieve a fruitful harvest…

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Garden as if your life depended on it, because it does

By Ellen LaConte, Posted April 5th, 2011

5 reasons why more of us should take up spade, rake and hoe, make compost and raise good soil and garden beds with a vengeance.

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Raised Beds: Preparing your Garden Beds for Spring

By Greg Seaman, Eartheasy.com, Posted March 15th, 2011

Early spring preparation will yield rewards throughout the growing season.

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Vegetable garden seed ordering tips

By Lindsay Seaman, Eartheasy.com, Posted January 24th, 2011

Vegetable gardening is rewarding on so many levels, but it all begins with the seeds…

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Top 6 most cost-effective vegetables to grow

By Greg Seaman, Eartheasy, Posted January 19th, 2011

If you are growing vegetables in the hope of saving money, here are some suggestions for crops which have delivered real cost savings for us…

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Soils and Souls: The promise of The Land

By Robert Jensen, Posted October 18th, 2010

We must ask how we can construct an economy that can balance what is biologically and physically possible with what is socially and ethically desirable.

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How to Use Seaweed to Mulch Your Garden

By Greg Seaman, Eartheasy.com, Posted September 18th, 2010

Seaweed is among the best gifts nature makes available for the gardener.

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Organic Farms Win at Potato Pest Control

By Daniel Cressey, Posted August 9th, 2010

Organic agriculture promotes more balanced communities of natural predators

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Peak Phosphorus: German recycler to mine phosphorus from sewage

By Hilmar Schmundt, Posted April 26th, 2010

With the advent of ‘urban mining’, a new source of phosphorus, essential to farming and gardening, is now being tapped.

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How to build a raised garden bed on sloping, uneven ground

By Greg Seaman, Eartheasy.com, Posted April 9th, 2010

Building a raised garden bed over sloping ground is simple if you build it ‘in place’. Here’s the easiest way to build a level bed over uneven ground.

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How to fix a soggy compost pile

By Eartheasy, Posted March 22nd, 2010

Just when you’re looking forward to using your over-wintered compost for spring planting, it can be a soggy dense mess, and difficult to spread evenly in garden beds. A few simple measures can help restore your compost in time for spring garden use.

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