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Are You Peeing on Your Compost?

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Say what? Peeing on your compost? Yes, you read it right. It might seem like a slightly unorthodox gardening practice but it could be your own personal contribution to the green cause because compost can be greatly improved by the addition of human urine. Gardeners always want to improve their compost and their garden soil right? Yes! If you pee on your compost, it has a double environmental whammy. It speeds up its decomposition so you can get it on the garden more quickly, and it also saves … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Gardening Tagged With: Compost, Fertilizer, nitrogen, pee, peecycle, straw bales, urine

Garden Tasks for March

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Spring is almost here. Let's get busy! March Garden Chores: Dig runner bean and celery trenches and fill with manure, kitchen waste, and garden waste Spread compost/manure on garden beds Mulch fruit trees Feed fruit trees (organic blood, fish, bone, and seaweed mixture) Protect apricots, cherries, peaches, and nectarines from frost if they begin to blossom Use a winter wash on fruit trees to control insect pests and fungal diseases Plant bare root fruit trees and bushes Plant … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Gardening Tagged With: Apple, Compost, disease, garden, Manure, march, Pear, scab, Trees

Eco-Friendly Gardening Practices

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Gardening can be hard on the environment if you don’t know what you’re doing. This may seem seem impossible since gardening and cultivating the earth seem so earth friendly but think about the impacts of what you are doing. Are you using chemical fertilizers? Are you buying plants raised with bee killing neonicotinoid pesticides?Are you using unsustainable amounts of water?  There are eco-friendly gardening practices that you can use to lessen the impact on Mother earth. Here are easy gardening … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Gardening Tagged With: Bees, Chemicals, Compost, Eco Friendly, Fertilizers, garden, grey water, greywater, neonicotinoid, Pesticides, Rain Barrel, repurpose, reycled, Soil, water, Weed Control

Fall/Winter Garden Prep & Chores

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The weather is getting quite nippy and the nights are getting darker. Life is moving a little bit slower, and things are winding down in your summer garden. But perhaps you don’t want to give up gardening just yet. Heck the weather is perfect for outdoor enjoyment right? Well you CAN keep growing well into winter. If this interests you check out my article on extending the growing season into fall and winter. It has lots of great tips and info on what kind of plants do well in cold weather. In … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Gardening, The Homestead Tagged With: annuals, Chores, Compost, disease, fall, garden, Manure, Mulch, overwinter, Pests, prep, Weeds, winter

Homemade Fruit Fly Trap

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When you eat a lot of fresh fruit and produce you tend to see lots of fruit flies hanging around your house. My husband insists that there have to be eggs on the fruit and that is how they get into the house. I prefer to believe that the little guys can smell the ripe fruit from miles away and sneak inside the house to feast. Who wants to imagine they are buying fruit with egg sacs all over it??? Yuck! Either way it is gross to walk by your bowl of apples or bananas (or whatever fruit you like … [Read more...]

Filed Under: A Green Home Tagged With: Acv, Apple Cores, Bad Fruit, Bananas, Compost, Compost Bin, Egg Sacs, Fresh Fruit, Fruit Fly Trap, Fruit Fly Traps, Garbage Bin, Homemade Fruit Fly Trap, Homemade Fruit Fly Traps, Little Guys, Mason Jar, Melon, Ooze, Rascals, Rice Vinegar, Ripe Fruit, Wild Party

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My name is Tiffany and I am the blogger behind Naturemoms. I live on an urban homestead in Ohio with my husband, three children, and assorted furry friends. When I am not blogging I am usually thrift store shopping, gardening, wildcrafting and food foraging, or otherwise enjoying nature. Enjoy! Read More…

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