by Great Big Plants | Jan 30, 2019 | Garden Soil, Your Garden
Manure Alternative In spite of the smell and mess, people add manure to their garden soil or on top their lawns because they believe it is a natural and traditional way to improve soil. The Benefits Manure provides a number of benefits, such as: Provides organic...
by Great Big Plants | Jan 29, 2019 | Frequently Asked Questions, Garden Soil
What are the Benefits of Using Compost? Whether one has a green thumb or is a complete gardening novice, everyone agrees that compost is a “good thing”. At the same time, very few of us are aware of the specific compost benefits to our garden soil. So the following is...
by Great Big Plants | Jan 29, 2019 | Frequently Asked Questions, Garden Soil
Why Plants Need More Than Fertilizer When you buy fertilizer, whether chemical or organic, you’ll see three numbers separated by dashes boldly standing out on the package; such as 5-6-5. You might already know that they stand for the percentage of NPK contained in the...
by Spenser | May 3, 2017 | Garden Soil
16 Nutrients Your Plants Crave and Why They Need Them Many gardeners know that it takes more than just the big three (Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium) nutrients for your plants to reach their full potential, but not everyone knows why! Lets take a brief...
by Spenser | Oct 28, 2016 | Garden Soil, Organic Gardening
Kim E. has picked the last of her Cucumber varieties, and they look delicious! She has enjoyed rapid and healthy root and plant growth through the season, thanks to Great Big Plants Compost Extract. She also has sent us the progress pictures of her Purple Cherokee...
by Spenser | Oct 25, 2016 | Garden Soil, Organic Gardening
Winter will be here before we know it and trees and vines are already going through some changes to get ready. When night temperatures fall, day length decreases and soil temperatures cool, top growth begins to slow. This is good for the plants. As winter...
