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Natural Plant Fertilizers

yumi87 @ayuzawa (436) • Philippines 11 Jul 18

Some of the plants I have at home loves an acidic and alkaline soil. One of the Alkaline loving soil plant I have is lavender. Yesterday I was cleaning my metal kettle, I think it's an aluminum one. There is this white residue...

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Spending some time with plants!

jayaram @jayaramas (1353) • Bangalore, India 26 Jun 16

As it is Sunday, I spent some time with plants. I an having about 100 pots. I used some fertilizers, rose mix. I was very enjoyable. Since it is rainy season, watering problem is very less. Also, most of them are flower plants and...

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Is rain water good for plants?

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23235) 13 May 16

Those who have potted plants in their verandah or balcony, they hardly get a scope of feeding the plants in rainwater. The herbs or shrubs are not nurtured in garden like environment where the flat soil allow the roots to spread...

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Organic Christmas trees?

3SnuggleBunnies @3SnuggleBunnies (16374) • United States 3 Jul 11

Have you ever heard of a Christmas tree being organic? I've never heard of such a thing or frankly have not given much thought about it myself. But I guess some growers use up to 40 pesticides to get the perfect tree for the...

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Would you have discovered feces as fertilizer by yourself?

Gorillafootprints925 @Gorillafootprints925 (3586) • United States 17 Sep 10

How do you think people discovered crap as fertilizers for their crops? I think they discovered it by accident. As the herds of animals who takes a dump all day in the farm overwhelm the farm itself smelling like crap all the...

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have you ever tasted poop?

meggggg @meggggg (155) • Philippines 23 Jun 09

have you? how does it taste like

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Use of chemical fertizers

rebecca1957 @rebecca1957 (265) • United States 15 Apr 08

I attended a class last night on organic gardenng vs use of chemical fertilizers. I never realized that the dead zones in water are caused by the runoff of these fertilizers and pesticides going into our water. Fish are dying...

organic gardening

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Do you enjoy organic gardening?

oscarbartoni @oscarbartoni (2581) • United States 7 Mar 08

I try to enrich the garden all of the time by adding organic waste material to it as often as I can. I eat a lot of fruit and I throw the peals and other parts that I do not eat onto the garden so that they will go into the ground...

good soil preparations

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organic gardening

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Do you grow your own vegetables? Are you into organic gardening?

loujac3 @loujac3 (1188) • United States 25 May 07

I prefer to use organic methods which is one of my ways of going green. I found that my zuchini plant is already putting out zucchinis and I an really happy about it. I also dig holes in my gardens and bury the scrap produce so...

organic gardening

organic gardening

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How can I get rid of...

creematee @creematee (2810) • United States 25 Apr 07

Creeping Charlie. Although beautful, and it smells lovely, it is getting pretty invasive. It's all over in my lawn, and tackling its way into my flower and vegetable beds. Sigh. Round-up is about the only way I've been successful...

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