by Harold Schrock | Jul 1, 2023 | 2023, 07 July, Articles & Stories, Gardening, Plants & Fungi
View the July 2023 Nature Friend Study Guide With more attention to detail and a few extra tools, compost can be made fertilizer-grade where a little bit goes a long way. What we’re talking about here is not the SAM (stacked, aged manure)that I described a couple...
by Harold Schrock | Jun 1, 2023 | 2023, 06 June Readers' Issue, Articles & Stories, Gardening, Nature-Friendly Gardening, Plants & Fungi, Study Guide
View the June 2023 Nature Friend Study Guide Last month we looked at the limitations of poor quality compost, but don’t think for a minute that compost is something to be avoided. Composting is a natural process that happens all by itself without our intervention....
by Harold Schrock | May 1, 2023 | 2023, 05 May Story Contest, Articles & Stories, Gardening, Nature-Friendly Gardening, Plants & Fungi, Study Guide
View the May 2023 Nature Friend Study Guide Pick up any gardening magazine or book, and you are sure to soon come across the use of compost. Composting is a basic principle of gardening. In the natural cycle of things, life grows from death; the decomposition of...
