by Steven Andrews | Nov 21, 2013 | General, Home Gardening, Tips
Don’t throw all those freshly fallen leaves into your green waste cart for curbside pickup. Instead, create a leaf mold compost bin and let nature do the work of recycling those leaves into a nutrient rich soil amendment. Producing leaf mold compost is easy to do,...
by Steven Andrews | Oct 16, 2013 | General, Home Gardening, Tips
It’s time to cover all of those open spaces in your garden and landscape with two inches of WM EarthCare™ Homegrown Compost. Add spring color to open patches and raised beds by spreading a mix of wildflower seeds over the compost and water-in lightly. Winter rains...
by WM EarthCare | Sep 19, 2013 | General, Home Gardening, Tips
It’s once again that time of year when we start to tidy up all those tired, spent plants that gave us their best with flowers and veggies throughout the summer. Before you go crazy pulling wildly, save yourself time and money, and do your soil a favor too by simply...
by Steven Andrews | Aug 19, 2013 | General, Home Gardening, Tips
Seasonal high temperatures cause significant water loss through evaporation and transpiration from plants. Reserves of soil moisture are at their lowest, causing desiccation of roots and a decrease in soil organism reproduction. Plant a fall cover crop or apply a...
by Steven Andrews | Jul 25, 2013 | General, Tips
As daytime temperatures rise so does the surface temperature of soil. Moisture is quickly lost at the surface on hot days, even in irrigated soils. An inspection of your irrigation system and freshening up of mulch this month will not only help you conserve water and...
