by Great Big Plants | Aug 5, 2014 | Organic Gardening, Tomato Gardening
Review: My daughter Marie and her daughters and I have teamed up to grow a vegetable garden this year at the Juniper Street Community Garden here in Flagstaff, AZ. The garden has 12 raised beds built of small diameter pine logs. Each plot is 4 feet x 20 feet. The...
by Great Big Plants | Jun 20, 2014 | Organic Gardening, Tomato Gardening
May 21- At the community garden, the garlic, onions, and radishes are all coming up. Yay!!! I pulled the burlap cover off the radishes and placed Agribon over these rows. I try to water each time I visit the garden and will apply Great Big Plants liquid compost...
by Great Big Plants | May 27, 2014 | Garden Soil, Organic Gardening
The soils in the neighborhood where I took my sample are predominately clay, so I would expect my test to reflect that. I checked my jar after a few days, and sure enough, the soil had separated into layers consisting of 45% clay, 22% silt, and 33% sand. According to...
by Great Big Plants | May 13, 2014 | Garden Soil, Organic Gardening
No matter what your nutrient inputs are, your plants won’t succeed with poor soil structure; there are several key biological processes in plant and root growth that are aided and facilitated by strong soil structure. Air flow and moisture retention are imperative to...
