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Home-Made Fertilizer
From: The Grow Network
15 Simple and Inexpensive Homemade Fertilizers
by Joe Urbach, publisher and author
There was a time when people gardened because backyard produce was far better and cheaper than anything from the store. To tell the truth, it still is, or at least it still can be. Yet some are convinced that you have to spend a bundle of money to have a really nice, healthy garden. I think that this misconception grew out of the fact that most people have backyards that are filled with really poor/weak soil. The reasons for this are complicated – a subject for another day. Suffice it to say that if the soil is weak, your plants will also be weak. And so it follows that weak plants have poor production, leading to more time and money spent on a low quantity of low quality vegetables.
Joe Urbach is the original Kitchen Garden Farmer and has both lived and worked in the Austin, Texas area for over 30 years. In the last ten to twelve years he has concentrated his efforts on installing many raised bed and container kitchen gardens in Texas from Austin to San Antonio and all surrounding areas. He has also been teaching young and old how to maintain their kitchen gardens and how to help their kitchen gardens provide a bountiful harvest of healthy, delicious and really fun to grow (and eat) foods.
While still very much the advocate for a “kitchen garden in every home” Joe now finds that his focus is set on changing the way we all think of our food – be it from our kitchen gardens, farmers markets or the local supermarket.