Offset Spacing When seeds or seedlings are planted in offset rows, the rows can be closer and still give plants their ideal amount of space in all directions (r) once mature. In the diagram to the left, the seedlings are planted their ideal distance apart (d), as listed on a Read more…
Making Your Own Compost It’s probably become clear that adding cured compost is the best way to increases your soil’s fertility and grow amazingly healthy and productive plants. It has all of the macro-and micro-nutrients plants need and contains the organic matter and humus needed to feed soil microbes, assist Read more…
Well-Loosened Most gardeners know that our garden plants really suffer in deeply compacted soil. This is one of our reasons for tilling each season. We till to destroy weeds and turn vegetation into the soil, sure, but we also till to loosen the soil. We all know this intuitively. We’d Read more…
Crop Rotations Put simply, garden crops need to be rotated, or planted in a different spot, each year. The reasons usually fall into two categories: First, some plants pull so much of a certain nutrient out of the soil—corn feeding heavily on nitrogen, for example—that the soil needs a year Read more…