Rock powders grow great vegetables!

Here is a short video from Scotland showing a farm that uses compost and rock powders to get beautiful healthy vegetables.  I use lots of rock powders and I thought this was cool!

The rock powder used in the video is basalt which is an igneous (volcanic) rock.   I use other rock powders like soft [...]

Insecticides for organic production

Hi Everybody,

Recently someone asked a question about organic insecticides and I wrote this response.  Enjoy!

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I would be very interested to know what pesticides you use to grow your fruit organically.  Thanks.

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Sugar is a nice insecticide.

Insects don’t have a pancreas so when they eat sugar it does not digest,
it ferments.  The by-product of fermentation is alcohol [...]

Gardening tips

Here is a real important gardening tip;

Plants consume 50% of their food
between flower and fruit.

What that means is, once a plant begins to flower, it consumes enormous amounts of food especially just before the fruit matures and slips off the vine or stem.

As I mentioned in my last post, the last three days before fruit [...]