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| 0 | Chilean bellflower: Flowers with some flair...creates the humus-rich, neutral to acidic soil it likes: Mix equal 1/3 parts peat moss, leaf mold and medium bark chips to make loose soil that ensures good drainage. leaf mold - leaves broken down into a fine crumbly tilth - like compost, offers a way to... |
| 0 | Cultivating a reverence for the soil...plant residue worked into the soil. It can be compost, rotted sawdust or wood chips, leaf mold, grass clippings or a cover crop of some kind. Any kind of plant material will work."" There are some cautions. Adding material that contains a lot of weed seed... |
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| 0 | The Perfect Tomato Plan...those mulched with plastic. We recommend a 3- to 4- inch layer of dried clippings, leaf mold, straw, or even shredded newspaper-all of which decompose and feed soil organisms?over plastic. Clear or IRT (infrared transmitting) plastic mulches make sense... |
| 0 | Tobacco growers looking for solutions...of efforts related to export of U.S. leaf, including overcoming Chinas reluctance to import American leaf because of possible blue mold contamination.""His background in export issues will likely come in handy now as FCTC plays a growing role in world... |
| 0 | April Fools brings April...in the morning mist, warm sunshine, or lengthening days. Maybe it is in the rotting leaf mold or almost green smell of moss in creek beds that tells me spring has arrived.""It's Easter come and gone speeding by to bring summer before I know it. Soon I'll... |
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| 0 | Grow in knowledge as you grow plants...soil. This can be horse manure (at least a year old), compost (the best), or leaf mold (rotted down leaves). This will help break up the clay and will feed the soil and all the life living in it (including your plants).""I usually begin working in my... |
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