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How To Make Homemade Liquid Fertilizer & Scale Up Fast

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Making your own homemade liquid fertilizer allows you to use them for everything, including young seedlings and plants in containers. Sweetcorn and other vegetables that can benefit from midseason booster feedings are also included. What’s Liquid Fertilizer Made Of? The starter material is locally-produced poultry manure with nutrient analysis of 5-4-4, something very similar to …

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Sandy Soil Improvement For All Gardens

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Gardeners who have to deal with sandy soil dream of sticky clay because it sounds like gardening heaven! However, those who have worked with sandy soils know better. Sand has its positive points, but also its problems. There is an easy way to get rid of some of these problems, namely poor fertility and a …

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Can You Reuse Compost? Garden Recycling 101

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It’s great fun to grow plants close up, but container gardening can be expensive in terms of potting compost. That’s why it’s not worth wasting it. There is a chance to reuse potting soil in next year’s containers or use it to solve gardening problems. How To Reuse Compost? First, let the potting compost dry …

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