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Soil & Composting (2)

Articles tagged with "soil-composting"

Galvanised raised garden bed part filled in layers, showing logs at the base, rough compost above and finished growing soil on top
20 Aug

How to Fill a Raised Garden Bed (Without Buying 40 Bags)

Peter Vogel
Open backyard compost bin showing kitchen scraps with pale larvae among them and a gardener holding a fork ready to turn the pile
20 Aug

Maggots in Your Compost Pile: What They Are and What to Do

Peter Vogel
Wooden raised garden bed planted with tomatoes and lettuce under an even layer of golden straw mulch pulled back from each stem
20 Aug

Mulch for Raised Garden Beds: What to Use and How Deep

Peter Vogel
Open kitchen compost caddy holding used tea bags, loose tea leaves, coffee grounds and vegetable peelings, with one torn-open bag beside it
18 Aug

Composting Tea Bags: Which Ones Break Down and Which Do Not

Peter Vogel
Gardener spreading shredded leaf mulch around dormant perennial crowns in a frosted late autumn garden bed
17 Aug

Mulching in Fall: Depth, Materials and Timing

Peter Vogel
Gardener broadcasting cover crop seed over a cleared autumn vegetable bed with young cereal rye greening the neighbouring strip
17 Aug

Cover Crops for Fall: What to Sow After Harvest

Peter Vogel
Gardener pressing garlic cloves into dark autumn soil beside a basket of hardneck garlic bulbs and fallen leaves
17 Aug

When to Plant Garlic: Fall Planting Windows by Zone

Peter Vogel
Three cedar raised garden beds covered with golden straw mulch under morning frost in a late autumn backyard vegetable garden
13 Aug

How to Winterize Raised Garden Beds: Fall Soil Prep

Peter Vogel
Illustrated cross-section of a tillage radish cover crop taproot drilling down through topsoil into a compacted clay subsoil layer
11 Aug

Tillage Radish: Cover Crop for Compacted Soil

Peter Vogel