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...
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Can you mix compost and fertilizer? Are they even different?
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...