Simple, Organic and Sustainable
This year we we are completing a trial to test the effectiveness of Rock Dust and Bichar on the Home Vegetable Garden. This weeks video outlines the trial design! Rock Dust and Biochar both claim to have an positive effect on your home garden plants. As such our Hypothesis is that the Rock Dust and…
Potatoes have a rich and wonderful history! They have literally shaped humanity! With out cold spring delaying things in the garden you can get going on planting them to get a jump on the season. There are two ways you can plant potatoes. The first which is by far the most common is to take…
A few years back I was inspired by a trip to the nursery and I saw a 5-1 apple tree. I was intrigued and wanted to figure out how they could make that happen. The answer was fairly simple! They grafted 4 types of apple to a root stock. Apples are not self fertile and…
After 11 weeks the results are in and you are going to be in for a surprise. Our hypothesis 2 is that Rock Dust would have a positive effect on plant growth. In order to figure out if the Rock Dust did have a positive effect I measured the following things on my tomatoes and…
Building raised beds can be simple if your are on flat land. What happens if you have a slope where you need to put the beds? Here is the solution. There are some challenges but with some time and ingenuity you can build some great raised beds. This how-to video shows how you deal with…