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By: Organic Gardening with Fern Marshall Bradley » Veggie Gardening Tips

Organic Gardening with Fern Marshall Bradley » Veggie Gardening Tips — Thu, 07 May 2009 02:19:24 +0000

[...] wrote a previous article here about Growing Organic to Save Money, and is back to offer more of her gardening insight and to answer a series of questions regarding [...]

By: prairiesun

prairiesun — Sun, 03 May 2009 17:18:26 +0000

I see you are in PA. I recently read an autobiography by Flo Menninger from the 1800’s. She describes the many, many nuts and plants that they grew or harvested from their PA area, but, when they moved to Kansas where I live, things were not so easy. Still, I am amazed that early Kansans grew lots of everything in their gardens in native sod and today it is often a struggle to get things to grow well,and not be eaten by the squash bugs or have that old time flavor. When they first came to Kansas, they had no plow yet, so, dug little holes in the sod, dropped watermelon, squash and other melon seeds in them and hoped for the best. To their surprise, they had a bumper crop of everything without doing anything more to them. I have a garden in the midst of burmuda grass which I constantly fight to keep out of the garden and although I have had fabulous gardens with unbelievable success other places in this area, I have had only minimal success in this garden over an 11 year period. Could it be the burmuda draining nutrients? I have a raised bed, and lots of organic material worked in, etc. Tomatoes don’t taste like they used to and cucs and zucchini are destroyed by squash bugs every year. I do have a garden covered with short, Lambs quarters plants, though!

By: Go Organic and Save $ « In the Charamon Garden

Go Organic and Save $ « In the Charamon Garden — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:47:31 +0000

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By: Go Organic to Shrink Your Gardening Budget » Veggie Gardening Tips :Organic Vegetable Gardening

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:56:28 +0000

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By: Chiot's Run

Chiot's Run — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:44:50 +0000

I employ all of these techniques here at Chiot’s Run. There are also a number of great healthy alternatives. Our gardens are like our bodies, if you keep it strong & healthy to begin with you don’t need medicines & treatment.