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Time to start compost for spring planting!

Posted in Compost, Lasagna Gardening - Food Not Lawns, Manure, Nitrogen, Sheet composting, Soil, tagged bean, brown, California Rare Fruit Tree Growers, castings, Chicken Soup for the Gardener's Soul, Chief Seattle, clover, compost, decompose, drought, dry, fava, green, inoculate, lasagna, layer, leaves, legume, Leucaena, manure, Margaret Frane, Marion Owen, minerals, Nitrogen, organic, pea, planting, raised bed, recondition, restore, seaweed, seed, sheet, Soil, spring, tolerant, trace, transplant, trees, wet, worm on December 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Time to start compost for spring planting! Did you make rich fall soil? If so, your bin and sheet composting is really paying off now! If you have more compost available now, incorporate it with the soil in your new planting places, and plant another round! Keep ‘em coming! Now it is time to start [...]

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10 Easy Steps to Make RICH COMPOST for Fall Planting!

Posted in Amendments, Bat - Seabird Guano, Blood Meal, Community Gardens, Compost, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Fish - Kelp, Harvest, Innoculants, Lasagna Gardening - Food Not Lawns, Manure, Mulch, Soil, Teas- Compost, Manure, Worm, Time of Year, Winter Plants - Cool Season, Worm Castings, tagged alchemy, alfalfa, bat, beneficial, black smell, blood, brown, bulk, cardboard, cast, chicken, chocolate, coffee, cold, compost, cover, Craigs list, decompose, disesase, dry, earthworm, easy, eggshell, emulsion, enclosure, fall, fast, feeder, fish, foliar, garbage, garden, Ghiradelli, grass, green, guano, harvest, homemade, horse, hot, insect, island seed & feed, kitchen, lasagna, lawn, layer, leaves, manure, meal, mesh, micro, moist, mulch, N, nature, newspaper, Nitrogen, nutrient, Oct, organic, organism, oxygenate, pallet, pest, Plant, plastic, PVC, Red, seed, Sep, Soil, steer, straw, summer, surface, tea, trench, twigs, Val Webb, veggies, vermicompost, warm, waste, weather, wet, winter, wire, worm, worm casting, wriggler, yarrow, yellow on July 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »

I love Val Webb’s image and she and I both love COMPOST! She says: There’s an irresistible alchemy involved when you can start with garbage and end up with a wildly nutrient-rich substance that has been likened to Ghirardelli chocolate for earthworms. Composting is EASY! Start Now! The weather is warm, so your compost will happen [...]

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In honor of Earth Day!

Posted in Community Gardens, Compost, Lasagna Gardening - Food Not Lawns, Manure, Mycorrhizae, No-dig, Raised Beds, Soil, Worm Castings, tagged aerate, air, alfalfa, amendment, bloom, brown, build, cardboard, casting, chop and drop, circulation, compost, Day, deck, decompose, dry, earth, FNL, food, food miles, Food Not Lawns, frameless, front, fruit, fungi, garden, grass, green, innoculate, landscape, lasagna, lawn, layer, leaves, manure, microclimate, minerals, mulch, mycorrhizal, N, newspaper, niche, Nitrogen, no dig, nutritious, organisms, phosphorus, pollution, raised bed, Red, restoration, rock, roots, scraps, seeds, sheet, Soil, South, straw, sun, sustainability, tarp, terrace, transplant, trim, uptake, veggies, wet, wetted, worm, wriggler, yard on April 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Food Not Lawns is all about raising veggies not grass. Studies show they both take about the same amount of water, but veggies pay back sustainably with fresh highly nutritious food on your table and no-food-miles or pollution. Plus they make seeds for their next generation, adapting to your microclimate niche! http://www.sbfoodnotlawns.org Do I have [...]

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February! SOIL & SEED Month!

Posted in Aphids, Artichoke, Asparagus, Beets, Brassicas, Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrot, Cauliflower, Celery, Chard, Community Gardens, Compost, Container Gardening, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Frost, Freeze, Germinate, Gophers, Harvest, Kale, Kohlrabi, Lasagna Gardening - Food Not Lawns, Lettuce, No-dig, Peas, Pests, Potato, PreSoak, PreSprout, Raised Beds, Seeds, Seeds - Planting, Snails & Slugs, Soil, Veggies!, White Fly, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged absorption, acidic, activate, aerate, aesthetic, amendment, aphid, artichoke, asparagus, back, bare-root, bark dust, beet, branches, break, breathing, broccoli, brown, buckwheat, build, cabbage, carbon, cardboard, carrots, cauliflower, celery, chard, chop, clippings, clover, clump, coarse, coffee filter, community, compost, concrete, conifer, container, crop, damage, decompose, dig, disease, down, drainage, dried, dry, egg shells, enzyme, fast, favorite, February, fertilize, fine, fluffy, food scraps, frost, fungi, Gaia's Garden, garden, gopher, grass, green, harvest, hay, heat, Hemenway, inoculate, January, kale, kohlrabi, lasagna, last, lawn, layer, leafy, leaves, lettuce, living, manure, March, materials, maturity, microbe, mildew, minerals, month, mulch, mycorrhizal, needles, Nitrogen, no-did, no-turn, organisms, oxygen, paper bag, path, Patricia Lanza, Peas, peat moss, peels, pile, Pilgrim Terrace, pine, Plant, potatoes, protien, prune, radish, raised bed, Red, resistant, rich, roof, root, round, sawdust, seaweed, seed, sheed, shredded, sidedress, slow, slug, snail, Soil, speed, spray, sprinkle, stems, stinky, straw, strawberries, structure, summer, thin, traditional, turning, turnips, twigs, variety, vegetable, veggie, water, weeds, wheatgrass, white flies, winter, wire, wood, wood ash, worms, wriggler, yarrow, zucchini on February 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Please see February 2010 for tips on aphids/white flies, slugs/snails, gophers, soil, seed starting basics! When there are warm days, it is ever so tempting to plant up summer veggies! Don’t do it. Not yet. Start seeds. Depending on how much space you have, plant a last round of your very favorite winter crops – [...]

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Archive for the ‘Lasagna Gardening – Food Not Lawns’ Category

Time to start compost for spring planting!

10 Easy Steps to Make RICH COMPOST for Fall Planting!

In honor of Earth Day!

February! SOIL & SEED Month!

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