Archive for the ‘Green Gardening’ Category

March and April are the most exhilarating times of the gardening season. The sunshine is at last warm enough to allow gardeners to comfortably clean out the remains of last year’s beauty. Bulbs’ green tips change into brilliant blossoms. Read the rest of this entry »

They’re known as red wigglers, tiger worms or, more scientifically, Eisenia fetida. They prefer dark places, but if the sunshine glances off their skin just right, their yellow stripes glow against their violet-brown coloration. I began using worms to turn food scraps into fertilizer about 3 years ago, when Raleigh’s “worm lady”, Susan Quinby-Honer, demonstrated a simple vermicomposting system at a local elementary school. Read the rest of this entry »

Before you go to the garden center, you should stop and think about your soil. The most important component in your soil is the Soil Organic Matter (SOM). This is where all the action happens.  Read the rest of this entry »