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What Do Minerals and Trace Elements Do? Part 2

Written by admin on September 9, 2009 - 3 Comments
Categories: How Does That Work, Kitchen Garden

In part one of What Do Minerals and Trace Elements Do, we looked at the main ‘big three’ minerals needed in your soil: phosphorus, nitrogen and potassium. And we also looked at some lesser known trace elements needed in our soil: calcium and magnesium. In part two we will continue to look at the lessen [...]

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What Do Minerals and Trace Elements Do? Part 1

Written by admin on September 7, 2009 - 1 Comment
Categories: How Does That Work, Kitchen Garden

The aim of all gardeners is to grow healthy plants and vegetables, often it is a mis-construed idea that you have to feed the plant in order to make it healthy. This, however is not the case, it is the soil that needs the nutrients, in conjunction with, the correct pH so the roots of [...]

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Understanding Soil pH

Written by admin on July 30, 2009 - 2 Comments
Categories: How Does That Work, Kitchen Garden

Look in any gardening book, under the section that deals with descriptions of how to grow individual cultivars, and they will invariably have some reference to the soil pH for that particular plant. Infact, soil pH, for the most part, is just slotted in to a description, almost like an after thought, usually between the:- [...]

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    ** Seeds to sow directly into the soil as they don't like being transplanted**

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