Tag: grow your own

Getting better results while growing your own vegetables… This article will take a quick look at soils – one of the vital keys of getting good results from your plants. If you haven’t read the first part of this article I would highly recommend it (here) as without following the principles there, the things mentioned here will not be as beneficial.   To illustrate the points made in this article, we did a simple test: We filled a garden bed with two types of soil. ¾ was our own soil mix ¼ was a premium grade bagged organic potting mix …

Growing your veggies? How to save money AND get better results! A short article about soils and getting good growing results from your plants. One of the things that stuck in my mind when doing a horticultural apprenticeship at Botanic Golf was about soil. The owner (the late Theo Puik) came from a line of champion Tulip farmers in Holland and was incredibly knowledgable. Looking back, I regret not learning more from him (I was more interested in drugs, alcohol, cars and girls so he let me go). The simple rule he had for plant growth highlighted that what was …