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Mid-September is a transition time for vegetable gardeners. You may be doing some garden clean-up, recording the successes and failures you were too busy to think about when they happened, and deciding how to manage the soil this fall and…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Jon, Cold weather crops, Cool season vegetables, no-till, row covers, salad, Spinach
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In a mid-March post, I wrote about the advantages of using heavy-duty weed barrier fabric to smother weeds and create a no-till plant bed. In mid-June, I found myself with two beds that were starting to get weedy. The winter…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening, Lawn & Garden Tags: Author:Jon, beetles, no-till, Soil, Weeds
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This post is modified from an article originally published in The Delmarva Farmer (2/13/2018) Most people would probably be surprised to know that bacterial cells outnumber human cells in our bodies by 10-to-1 and that just one teaspoon of healthy…
Read MoreCategory: Lawn & Garden Tags: author:SaraVia, Cover Crops, no-till, Soil, soil improvement