The first part of our summer long battle with the Colorado Potato Beetle, Flea Beetle, and other problems with growing potatoes. Visit our community site for more info http://gardenfork.tv
Duration : 8 min 47 sec
How to garden organically
by Tricia
The first part of our summer long battle with the Colorado Potato Beetle, Flea Beetle, and other problems with growing potatoes. Visit our community site for more info http://gardenfork.tv
Duration : 8 min 47 sec
by Tricia
"The Public Square is the Heart of the Community"
Mark Lakeman, Co-Director of the non-profit City Repair Project, speaks at Washington State University/Vancouver.
From the City Repair website www.cityrepair.org :
Who We Are:
"We�re Portlanders and newcomers, students, professionals, laborers, cooks and bottle-washers."
Mission:
"The City Repair Project is an organized group action that educates and inspires communities and individuals to creatively transform the places where they live."
"We facilitate artistic and ecologically-oriented placemaking through projects that honor the interconnection of human communities and the natural world."
Why City Repair?
In 1785, the Continental Congress passed the National Land Ordinance, which laid a Roman colonial grid over all lands west of the Ohio River. This included all future cities and towns.
Public spaces and piazzas occur naturally at the intersection of pathways when communities are allowed to grow organically. The National Land Ordinance both pre-empted th…
Duration : 1 hr 49 min
by Tricia
Patti shows you more innovative ways to vertical garden. Check out her website at www.gardengirltv.com
Duration : 2 min 47 sec
by Tricia
Host Zoe Simpson explains why to eat organic grains: for nutrition and money savings. Written and produced by Larry Cook, author of The Beginnerâs Guide to Natural Living. Distributed by Tubemogul.
Duration : 56 sec
by Tricia
I recently purchased some organic compost not realizing that it was inorganic compost that I really wanted. So when I got home I mixed the organic compost I had just purchased with the inorganic compost i had layed out a week before. So my question was, what will happen when these two types of compost are mixed? Is my soil ruined because of this careless mistake or can I still salvage my soil? The reason I started with the inorganic compost was because I live in the Southwestern part of Texas where the soil is clay like and I was advised to use the inorganic type to soften the soil. Any suggestions out there or any similar issues any one has encountered?
Any type of soil can be improved with the addition of organic matter, unless you are one of the few who have perfect soil. The organic will rot and add water retaining humus to your soil, the inorganic will not rot and serve to help aerate. If you have clay soil, you NEED to add organic matter, period. Sand also helps as a cheap inorganic. One question…..compost is rotting ORGANIC material. I have never heard of inorganic COMPOST.