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6 Tips for Building Soil for Your Raised Garden Beds and Planters
By Greg Seaman, Posted January 31st, 2012Here 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, 2011It is a rare and beautiful thing when something of value falls right into our laps…
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Plant a Fall Cover Crop to Improve Your Garden Soil
By Greg Seaman, Posted September 21st, 2011With ‘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, 2011This overlooked garden gift is easy to grow, high in nutritional value, and can be stored all winter…
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5 Secrets to a ‘No-work’ Garden
By Greg Seaman, Eartheasy.com, Posted April 26th, 2011It 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, 20115 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, 2011Early 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, 2011Vegetable 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, 2011If 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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How to Use Seaweed to Mulch Your Garden
By Greg Seaman, Eartheasy.com, Posted September 18th, 2010Seaweed 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, 2010Organic 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, 2010With 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, 2010Building 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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Wheelchair Gardening Tips
By Eartheasy, Posted February 25th, 2010The simple pleasures which gardening offers can have added value for those with limited access to nature…
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Organic Mulches and Compost – good for your plants and even better for the soil
By Jonathan Yaakobi, Posted June 1st, 2009The former head gardener of the Jerusalem Botanical Garden explains the benefits of using organic mulches and compost.
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Organic Seeds Basics
By Marcie Snyder, Posted May 18th, 2009How do you know that the seeds you are buying are organically grown and where is the best place to buy organic seeds?
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Growing potatoes is easy …and so rewarding
By Shirley Eppler, Posted April 8th, 2009Potatoes are low in fat, packed with vitamins and minerals and make you feel full so you are less tempted to nibble on sugary desserts.
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8 Ways to Join the Local Food Movement
By Sarah VanGelder, Posted April 3rd, 2009How to turn a lawn into lunch, swap preserves, glean, boost your food security and live the good life.
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Vermiculite and Asbestos: how to minimize the risks
By James O'Shea, Posted April 3rd, 2009Vermiculite which is accompanied by a great deal of dust likely has residual asbestos in its contents and should be used with caution
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The New Rules of Food
By Alan Mammoser, Posted March 26th, 2009Concerned citizens, farmers and others are starting to work on a new set of rules for the food system.
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