Nutrient recycling: keeping your soil fertile is a no-loss proposition
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Keeping the nutrient base enriched in soil is the key to successful vegetable and plant gardening. Although there are 16 chemical elements critical to growth, commercially produced chemical fertilizers usually contain potassium, phosphorus and nitrogen. Why natural organic matter is better is examined.
Publication Name: Horticulture, The Magazine of American Gardening
Subject: Home and garden
ISSN: 0018-5329
Year: 1992
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Gene soup
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Vegetable diversity is near impossible for the home gardner to maintain. Seed storage is difficult, cross-pollination is hard to avoid, and hybrid varieties are often sterile. Buying unusual seeds each year is the best way to celebrate diversity.
Publication Name: Horticulture, The Magazine of American Gardening
Subject: Home and garden
ISSN: 0018-5329
Year: 1992
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Arbor days
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Arbors can be used to sustain climbing plants, flowers or vines for creating a practical and aesthetic 'umbrella' for plants that need little or no sun, or simply a touch of diffused light. Various kinds of gardening designs are illustrated.
Publication Name: Horticulture, The Magazine of American Gardening
Subject: Home and garden
ISSN: 0018-5329
Year: 1993
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