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This is my Mittleider garden for root crops, such as garlic, onions, horseradish, potatoes, shallots, and more types of garlic

A Vegetable Garden on My Back Porch

Recently, I was a guest on Cory Farley’s radio show on KBZZ in Reno, Nevada, to talk about my vegetable garden growing on my back porch.  It’s called “square foot gardening.”  Not as ambitious as our First Lady’s gardening efforts but still will harvest a load of vegetables.

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Now that spring is here, it’s time begin selecting the best plants and flowers for your garden. But before you do, have you ever been guilty of buying plants on impulse only to discover after planting them they look like the forgotten step child, making your garden look ackward? The goal of this article is to teach you how to plan a backyard garden…right now.

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Using organic food remedies for beauty and health is definitely not a new concept. In fact, people have been relying on such before the coming of the Industrial Age.

Modernization may have brought us a lot of convenience, but there are now growing populations of people who are seeking to go back to their “organic roots” in the quest to find the perfect anti aging products.

Organic foods are quite beneficial on their own. These have undergone the least amount of processing and preservation. The “raw” materials and the products used to sustain them are all derived from nature.

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Fertigator fertilizer is a specially made blend that is designed to complement the Fertigator irrigation system. This automatic fertilizer injection system attaches to an in-ground sprinkler and then feeds your lawn every time you water. The Fertigator Company manufactures a Feeder home edition, for small to medium sized products, and a Pro edition for larger jobs.

The great thing about a Fertigator fertilizer system is that you can “spoon feed” your lawn gradually, which is a far better way to oversee plant nutrition than using traditional fertilizer. Traditional fertilizer is chemical-based; this process also pours too many nutrients at once, which results in overfeeding (since plants rapidly take in these nutrients) and then a period of starvation. Unlike human beings, (or at least some human beings) plants do not know how to proportion their meals. There is no Jenny Craig program for plants!

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Are you like me and are fascinated with the miracle of our natural world i.e, the beauty and majesty of our trees, the myriad  colours of the leaves in autumn, the shade they provide in summer, as well as create micro climates around our homes.
There is a resurgence and a revival in growing trees for:

 -  Locking up or sequesting carbon into the soil

 - As trees are the lungs of the earth, they mop up carbon dioxide, while   oxygenating  the air we breathe

 - Sheltering birds and other animals

 - Providing leaf litter in creating organic humus and top soil

 - Reducing soil erosion, and preventing salinity

 - Flowers that supply bees with nectar and pollen. These trees also act as windbreaks, and provide structure and framework to our parks and gardens.

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Because of an alarming condition of our atmosphere these days and the impact of technological innovations have on our health, everything seems to be resorting to a more viable option – organics. From foods to even hobbies like gardening, organics had definitely taken the limelight.

Nowadays, one of the gradually emerging lucrative activity for hobbyist, and environmentalist for that matter, is organic gardening. It slowly replaces the traditional type of gardening that involves harmful chemicals that speed up the destruction of our Ozone layer.

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