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Leaf Mold? Black Gold! A Simple Recipe for Turning Autumn Leaves into Garden Dreams.

Making Leaf Mold Compost

Leaf Mold? Black Gold! Leaf compost is simple, free, and will transform you garden soil If there’s a single ingredient I recommend for almost any soil, it’s the leaves that carpet the ground every fall. I like to use them

Ea Murphy November 14, 2015November 14, 2015 Compost & Amendments, Dirty Little Toolbox, Featured, Stories & Secrets Read more

Don’t Fall Down on the Job – Spring Starts with Autumn Soil Care

Autumn Leaves

Get spring gardens off the ground with autumn soil care If you’re like me, the momentum of a busy summer builds to takes over my best laid plans for organization and order sometime in mid-August. When autumn arrives, I feel

Ea Murphy October 26, 2015November 14, 2015 Dirty Little Toolbox, Featured, Soil Basics, Stories & Secrets Read more

Buckwheat Green Manure: Fill the Summer Gap to Build Soils Fast

Young lush buckwheat green manure.

Simple Summer Buckwheat: Fast, friendly, and fresh summer soil food for the short gap to build long-lasting soil health At last, summer has arrived! Gardens overflow and our hands are happily busy weeding, seeding, harvesting spring veggies, and prepping for fall. If you are like

Ea Murphy June 26, 2015 Cover Crops, Dirty Little Toolbox, Featured, Stories & Secrets Read more

Fertilizers or Amendments? What to Use for Soil Food

Bucket of fertilizer

Fertilizers or Amendments. Does the difference have you scratching your head? Soil fertilizers or amendments. Confused? There’s a good reason. There’s not a sharp line between fertilizers and amendments. Fertilizers can be amendments and amendments can be fertilizers. They both

Ea Murphy June 17, 2015June 17, 2015 Compost & Amendments, Dirty Little Toolbox, Featured, Stories & Secrets Read more

Feed the Soil, Part 1: What are Organic Soil Amendments

Orchard trees on the edge of a Japanese farm

The what and why of organic soil amendments and soil food What’s the secret to rich, productive soil? Food! Soil has to eat…just like us and every other living thing out there. Our most important garden job is feeding the

Ea Murphy May 25, 2015May 25, 2015 Compost & Amendments, Dirty Little Toolbox, Featured, Stories & Secrets Read more

Online Resources for Cover Crops and Green Manures

Common vetch

Your Guide to… Green Manure and Cover Crop Resources  As gardeners, we know how to grow plants. Cover crops and green manures are no different. We just need to know three basic pieces of information to make green manures work in our

Ea Murphy April 28, 2015June 26, 2015 Cover Crops, Dirty Little Toolbox, Featured Read more

Got a Brown Thumb? Stick it in a Green Manure!

Got a Brown Thumb? Stick it in a Green Manure!

How to Get Started with Cover Crops and Green Manures in the Garden For a long time cover crops and green manures seemed like a dream. Growing plants in my garden that both fertilized and built up dark, rich soils –

Ea Murphy April 28, 2015May 19, 2015 Cover Crops, Dirty Little Toolbox, Featured Read more

Let Daikon Till Your Garden: Radish Cover Crop Works Soil Wonders

Let Daikon Till Your Garden: Radish Cover Crop Works Soil Wonders

The Secret to Soil Health is in the Roots When planting a cover crop to protect or feed our soils, we focus on the cover. Success comes in swaths of green that protect the bare ground and add nutrients when we till

Ea Murphy March 15, 2015May 25, 2015 Cover Crops, Dirty Little Toolbox, Featured, Stories & Secrets Read more

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