Comments on: How we boost our organic garden for free

By: Margaret

Margaret — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:58:07 +0000

Mulch, mulch, and more mulch. We use discarded straw bales too, and put a 3-4″ layer around all of our plants (the little neighbor girl says, “why are they growing hay?”) At the end of the season, we rake it all into a pile and use it again in the spring. We grow a lot of garlic, and each fall keep aside enough cloves to plant in October, so rarely buy new planting stock. We’re growing potatoes in scavenged trash cans this year…we’ll see at harvest how that went!

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Coffee grounds in the garden - what’s the benefit? | Cheap Like Me — Mon, 11 May 2009 10:45:31 +0000

[...] my post last week on ways to nourish a garden for free, reader Claire Walter wrote in with this question: Coffee grounds right onto the soil? What’s the [...]

By: Condo Blues

Condo Blues — Sat, 09 May 2009 16:16:53 +0000

Companion planting! I’m planting herbs and lavendar around my other plants to deter pests. The lavendar planted under my crabapple tree has deter Japanses Beattles so far so good. My neighbors can’t say the same.

By: Claire Walter

Claire Walter — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:23:18 +0000

We live in Boulder, so we have city composting now, w/ both yard waste and kitchen waste (no bones, no poultry skin, etc.) picked up curbside every 2 wks. We have one modest compost bin that I’ve been semi-neglecting since the city started its program. Coffee grounds righ onto the soil? What’s the benefit? We just put coffee grounds, unbleached paper filter and all, in w/ the compost.