This is a guest post by J. C. Banks, who runs the seafood business directory. Across North America, consumers are becoming increasingly concerned about healthy diets, food safety, and green living. These issues have sparked major changes in consumer behavior, with many of these developments leading to improvements in local food supplies. Many of these changes [...]
If you grow a lot of transplants, you’ll rapidly realize that it takes a lot of potting soil! While baby seedlings which have just sprouted do best in a special seedling mix, older transplants need something with a bit of food in it for them, and don’t need a sterile mix. So, you can mix [...]
Direct seeding outside has many advantages for most kinds of vegetables, though it’s not the best solution for all of them. While planting transplants gives you a head start on the season for veggies that need heat, and can help you get the most out of succession planting, some types of vegetables hate being transplanted [...]
There are a number of different ways to make a new raised bed vegetable garden. Some work better on a larger scale, some depend on having soil present already, and some use more recycled materials. Assuming you’ve already found a location with the needed sun and water access, the first question is, what’s already there? [...]
