MICROBE - Garden Guide
What is Compost - All About It
Compost is a dark brown, earthy material in its look. It is a material that helps tremendously in the gardening and cultivation. Compost is the final output of the composting process, where aerobic decomposition of the...
How Microbes Break Down Compost
Most folks love the fun process of composting in their home or backyard and even understand the science behind it all. But for the rest of us, composting is like another skill that we have to learn before we can even think...
Why Use An Aquarium Or Pond UV Sterilizer - How UV Sterilization Works
Basics:Ultra violet sterilization is one of the most effective means of controlling algae (green water) in ponds and is also effective at disease prevention in aquariums and ponds and for general water quality control in...
Get To Know Organic Fertilizer
What is organic fertilizer?Growing vegetable and fruit organically is not allowable using any chemical supplements. It must be entirely organic from the planting process, periodical maintenance up to the harvest period. Using...
History Of Plum Trees And Their Hybrids
The documentation of ancient plums growing in antiquity is sparse. The best evidence of that oldest existence is best documented through Americas most famous pomologist, Luther Burbank, who reported in his twelve volume...
How Savvy Gardeners Use Mulch To Make Garden Work Easier
Mulch supplies many benefits to plants and soil: insulation, shade, moisture retention, weed reduction, and soil building. But when mulch is applied at the wrong time or in the wrong form, it can do more harm than good. Use the...
Organic Composting
Making compost will help you reduce pollution and cut down that landfill! Your plants will grow healthier and look happier for it and it will save you money on fertilisers too. Our local council in Manchester has now given us...
Compost Tumblers Make Composting Fun
Before you start on your first composting project of the year, have you thought about what you were going to place your compost in? I don't mean, "In my garden," or even, "In my houseplant's soil," those are all moot points....
Healthy Soil for a Healthy Garden
All too often, soil composition is neglected. Every season, our plants and gardens rob the soil of it nutrients. All gardeners are to be custodians of the soil, taking the time to replace food and other elements as they are...
The MorrowPond Garden - Soil Management
First Step: The SoilGood landscaping starts with a good soil, a good layout and healthy plants. Preparation of the soil is the main component to healthy plants.Soil structure depends upon the balance of air, water, heat and...
Autumn Is The Best Time For Successful Compost Piles
Early autumn is the best season for successful composting piles. To start, here are some points on how to build a compost pile:* lay sheets of plastic on the ground.
* place a 6-inch layer of leaves or grass clippings on the...
Organic Composting
Making compost from garden and household waste is one of the best things any gardener can do. Its easy and costs very little in time or effort.Making compost will help you reduce pollution and cut down that landfill! Your...
Control Pond Algae for a Clean, Healthy and Beautiful Pond
No matter if it is a decorative pond, water garden, golf course pond or stock tank, nothing drives pond owners crazier than an infestation of pond scum or pond algae. The only thing that equals the frustration of seeing it, is...
Improve Garden Soil with Cover Crops
It is important to add organic matter to your soil every
year - whether you're using chemical fertilizers or
gardening organically. Healthy soil is alive, actually
teaming with earthworms and micro-organisms by the millions...
Maintaining Your Beautiful Flower Garden
If one is aware of the ways of looking after his garden, a huge change can come over in the appearance and general well-being of his plants. If you follow the easy clues given below, you will have a blossoming, healthy...
Hints And Requirements To Make The Optimum Compost
Compost is the center of gardening. In order to have anything grow properly you need to feed the soil not the plant. Most of the food that a plant takes in is from the roots. The leaves take in food but not on the scale that...
Garden Composting Tips- The Art of Composting
Even a composting neophyte can make top-notch compost with the right recipe. Akin to cooking, composting is half art, and half science. Awareness of these basic factors will help you getting started.Just like a chef demands...
7 Factors Needed For A Compost Pile
Compost, made from decomposed grass clippings, leaves, twigs, and branches, becomes a dark, crumbly mixture of organic matter.Learn how composting works. Even a newbie to composting can make good quality compost. It can be...
Let's Speed Up That Compost Pile
Compost piles must hold a minimum of organic material before they will maintain rapid decomposition. So the pile should be at least 3-feet-by-3-feet and 4-feet tall. Naturally piles can be larger. Moving leaves to the pile,...
Ingredients to Include in Your Compost
Composting for your backyard garden or for your indoor plants is a healthy and beneficial process for your plants and the environment. For those who want to start the fun and fruitful process of composting, you have to be...