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  Plant Growth

  Turning Kitchen Scraps into Liquid Fertilizer

  Homemade liquid fertilizer is easy to make, eco-friendly, and dirt cheap compared to commercial fertilizers.Kitchen scraps such as onion peels, carrot tops, and even...

  By: Karen Lloyd | Freelance Writer, Digital Marketing Expert

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  Plant Growth

  Growing Your Own Cannabis? Don't Forget These 3 Additives

  Water-based organic fertilizers are easily absorbed by plants and make providing nutrition to cannabis plants easy and convenient.Different growers use different methods...

  By: Megan O'neill

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  Plant Growth

  4 Easy Steps to Super Soil for Thriving Cannabis Plants

  What is Super Soil?Probably the most well-known and effective soil for your cannabis plants first gained recognition in 2009. It was back then that the late Subcool, a...

  By: Monica Mansfield | Homesteader, Owner & Writer of The Nature Life Project

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  Cannabis

  Why Some Cannabis Growers Are Turning to No-till Farming

  Undisturbed soil, often teeming with beneficial microbes, can power plants just as well as soil that’s been tilled and fertilized.For many growers, soil amending...

  By: Ember Edwards | Content Writer

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  Plant Growth

  How to Boost Living Soil with Organic Amendments

  If a plant is to reach its full potential, it must be provided with specific nutrients at various times throughout its life cycle. Plants grown outdoors and in soil rely...

  By: Eric Hopper | Writer, Consultant, Product Tester

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  Plant Growth

  Care for a Cup of Compost Tea? Your Plants Will!

  Compost tea does not sound very appetizing to us humans—and it shouldn’t—but plants really love it. Compost tea is exactly what it sounds like:...

  By: Shannon McKee | Freelance Writer, Gardener

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  Plant Types

  Kitchen Scrap Gardening

  The secret to the beginnings of a great garden can often be found in an unexpected place. The scraps of vegetables that are thrown away after making a soup or casserole...

  By: Matt LeBannister

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  Plant Growth

  Worms: The Ancient Secret to the Rise of Human Civilization?

  There is a single organism responsible for the rise of the earliest urban communities. Without their hard work in Ancient Egypt, India and Mesopotamia, agricultural...

  By: Thomas Forrest | Agronomist

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  Plant Growth

  Brew up a Batch of Compost Tea

  Organic horticulture is often referred to as the biological approach to growing. This is because organic growers dedicate as much or more attention to microbial ecology...

  By: Spencer Bath

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  Plant Growth

  Organic Rooting Medium: Composting Woods

  Fresh wood by-products, such as pine bark, wood chips, and coarse sawdust, are suitable for use in soilless organic rooting media mixes. Pine bark is a common ingredient...

  By: J. Benton Jones Jr

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  Plant Growth

  Compost Tea Considerations

  For the novice gardener, compost tea is simply the stewing of aged compost in water for about three days to cause a bloom of micro-organisms that can benefit plants and...

  By: August Dunning

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  Propagation

  Growing Gardens from Kitchen Scraps

  Just think, you can take your kitchen scraps and start a garden. Instead of throwing away or composting unwanted fruits and vegetables, use them to create something you...

  By: Barbara H. Shaw