Archive for Organic Plant Nutrients
It’s Your Move About The Red Clover
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Red Clover is a very common plant with bright pink blossoms and is renowned for its fertility-enhancing properties. A delicate blossom on a hardy, nourishing plant could be the natural fertility booster that you are looking for.
It is known as a hardy plant that enriches the fertility of the soil its planted in. Natural wisdom has proven that it gives a tonic and enhancing effect to human fertility as well.
Common in fields and along roadsides, it has bright pink blossoms from mid-summer into the chilly days of fall. What can red clover tell about your landscape?
The reason for its presence is not to annoy or even mock you. Instead, it is merely assessing the quality of your garden soil. Typically, the presence of clover in your lawn indicates a low level of nitrogen in the soil.
Nitrogen in your soil will affect the part of the plant that is above ground, especially the green, leafy sections. Correct levels of Nitrogen will promote healthy green foliage.
Therefore, you will find that vegetables such as lettuce and spinach, as well as lawns, have high Nitrogen requirements.
Nitrogen is one of the most difficult nutrients to maintain in your garden as it is easily washed away by rain water. The Nitrogen level in your soil can, therefore, deplete quickly. And, Read More→
Delicate Beauty Of Daffodils That Stand Tall & Proud In Your Garden!
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In winter gardeners dream of daffodils. By late February or early March the dream becomes a reality and here they are standing tall and proud and shining in their unmatched beauty by saying that spring is here.
Daffodils are constantly recurring flowers with at least 50 species and many hybrids! The garden Daffodil’s ancestors come from the states around the Mediterranean Sea, such as Spain and Portugal, and the Middle East, such as Turkey.
The earliest record mentioned about Daffodils was around two or three hundred years BC.
No matter where you live, certain daffodils bloom earlier than others. My first blooms are always on miniature cultivars. You can get miniatures which begin the season, and other miniatures which end the season. And, Read More→
Let Nature Care For Your Garden With Pine Needles
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It is wise to let Nature care for your garden with pine needles. They appear to grace the garden with very little effort on your part.
Pine needles make up some of the most effective organic mulch you can use in your garden. Ever notice how damp the area under a pine tree is, where the needles have landed?
That is because the pine needles are a naturally occurring barrier of water preservation. The waxy coating on pine needles allows water to bead and slide of the needle into the soil.
But, that same waxy coating also prevents rapid evaporation and keeps water beneath the needle layer and in the soil. And, Read More→
Autumn Leaves Make An Excellent Organic Fertilizer & Great Garden Mulch
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Every fall, Mother Nature delivers her bounty of autumn leaves that make an excellent organic fertilizer & great mulch in our gardens.
Fallen leaves contain up to 80 percent of the nutrients that a tree absorbs during the growing season. When allowed to decay on the ground, leaves return their store of nutrients to the soil. In the soil, they’re reabsorbed by the roots and channeled back to a new season of growth.
If you don’t use the annual bounty of leaves, you miss the opportunity to add a rich, natural source of organic fertilizer to your garden. And,
Plant Growth – Natures Nutrition Recipes
Posted by: | CommentsNatural, old-fashioned grow-how nutrition recipes for growing amazing plants in your organic garden are especially valuable nowadays. For your money, you can’t beat this stick-to-your-roots kind of plant food.
Eggshells! Crushed egg shells add valuable nutrients to soil. Calcium is essential for cell growth in all plants. Calcium is special for fast growing plants because they quickly deplete the surrounding soil of calcium.
You can use crushed egg shells in your compost file(make sure they are washed). Or, use them along with coffee grounds (high source of Nitrogen).
Crush them, soak them in water for 24 hours, then use the water for your plants. All that calcium is especially good for peppers and tomatoes.
Or, place egg shells in a circle on top of the ground around tender plant stems such as peppers, tomatoes, broccoli, cabbage. Why? To deter slugs and cutworms.
Hair! Yes, use hair too. Whether it comes from a human or any other kind of animal, hair is full of iron, manganese, and sulfur. Work it into the soil or toss it onto the compost pile and watch your plants eat it up.
