Horse Manure Many composting articles on blogs or other websites commonly refer to a carbon to nitrogen ratio, or simply C:N, that needs to be met for proper composting to occur. This is the ratio...

Horse manure and wood shavings After using fertilizer and compost in it's many forms over the years, a thought occurred to me. Can I mix fertilizer in my compost pile, and would it be beneficial...

Many gardeners, market gardeners, and farmers may be using compost as a fertilizer, but is it actually a fertilizer, and does it have the nutrients plants need? Technically it is a fertilizer, and...

Have you ever picked up a banana and thought about how they grow and how long it takes? Before I started growing bananas I wondered the same thing. I am continually looking at the time to harvest of...

In my experience growing many types of plants I have learned that knowing which botanical group a plant belongs to can help a great deal and clear up confusions. For example, by knowing what...

Have you ever wondered if wild bananas are edible? I too wondered this when I started to grow bananas, and went searching for the answer. In general most, if not all wild bananas are edible, and...