by Great Big Plants | Jan 29, 2019 | Frequently Asked Questions, Tomato Gardening
How To Avoid Blossom End Rot On Tomatoes Growing tomatoes can seem very easy for some folks and enjoying your own vine ripened heirloom tomatoes is a real treat. However, there are several issues that can arise seemingly out of nowhere and ruin what a tomato gardener...
by Great Big Plants | Jan 29, 2019 | Frequently Asked Questions, Garden Soil
What are the Benefits of Using Compost? Whether one has a green thumb or is a complete gardening novice, everyone agrees that compost is a “good thing”. At the same time, very few of us are aware of the specific compost benefits to our garden soil. So the following is...
by Great Big Plants | Jan 29, 2019 | Frequently Asked Questions, Garden Soil
Why Plants Need More Than Fertilizer When you buy fertilizer, whether chemical or organic, you’ll see three numbers separated by dashes boldly standing out on the package; such as 5-6-5. You might already know that they stand for the percentage of NPK contained in the...
by Great Big Plants | Jan 29, 2019 | Frequently Asked Questions
What Is Humic Acid? While humic acid is still a relatively new concept to those not professionally involved in agriculture and gardening and is not widely available except through Internet or direct mail outlets, there is no denying the vast benefits it offers to all...
by Great Big Plants | Jan 29, 2019 | Organic Gardening, Your Garden
Organic Gardening Our country was founded on organic farming and gardening (chemical fertilizers and pesticides weren’t invented until the early 1900s). These days, organic gardening is pursued by many home gardeners as a way to reduce toxicity in their gardens and...
