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To Organic gardeners, a pile of well-rotted horse manure is really a gorgeous sight. In the days when cities bustled with carriage traffic, the abundance of the rich nutrient source contributed to the fertility and productivity of small, suburban market farms. Today, gardeners have readily available, easy-to-handle alfalfa (Medicago sativa) pellets — in a feeling,…
Although occasionally differing in country in origin, size and shape, the very best tomato plants for making bananas belong to the glue tomato group. Paste tomatoes have fewer seeds and a firmer texture than lemon juice. Their plants also produce an entire crop of tomatoes simultaneously, an edge for processing the fruit into sauce. Eaten…
Most herbs don’t require deep dirt to be productive. They can even grow well in containers on balconies, patios and sunny kitchen windowsills. Depending on type, herbs that do well in shallow dirt require no more than 3 to 12 inches of soil for rooting. Outdoors in the ground , they might stretch their roots…