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In Organic Gardening: The Natural No-Dig Way, the author Charles Dowding shares his techniques that ensure you will never have to till soil again, yet enjoy a delicious variety of fruits and vegetables organically grown in your own garden. The no-till method was first envisioned by Fukuoka in Japan. He refined it as he grew two rotated crops on his farm after World War II. Now Charles Dowding has made this method practical for the home gardener. Dowding has used an ingenious system of slightly raised beds with walkways between. He explains just about every possible way you could grow vegetables and fruit, including using polytunnels, greenhouses, and regular outdoor beds. His advice covers every phase of gardening, from designing your garden to obtaining the seed, to planting, to harvesting - and includes some fantastic recipes for your harvested produce.Organic Gardening: The Natural No-Dig Way is divided into two sections. In the first section, which has eight chapters, Dowding expla

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The Ninebark ‘Dart’s Gold’, Physocarpus opulifolius ‘Dart’s Gold’, is named for its broad three-lobed golden spring foliage, which turns lime green in the summer. This fine shrub is also notable for its wide arching branches tipped with pink-dusted white flowers. Dart’s Gold is a very adaptable deciduous shrub. It will tolerate dry conditions. Place in full sun to light shade. This Ninebark has golden leaves, white flowers, red fruit, papery bark, and is attractive in winter. Rejuvenate by pruning to base in the spring.

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This is McGeary’s premium quality general use fertilizer. It is ideal for corn crops or lawns, as well as vegetables and fruits, ornamental trees and shrubs, and flowering annuals or perennials. Plants respond rapidly, making this the most popular blend among farmers, landscapers and fruit and vegetable growers. It is OMRI certified and NOP compliant.Like all McGeary fertilizers, McGeary Organics 5-3-4 base is compost. This formulation adds colloidal phosphate, Langbeinite (potassium magnesium double sulfate), porcine blood meal, steamed bone meal, and plant protein products. The compost base enables nutrients to be released as needed.The application rates below are based on the nutrient needs of moderately high yielding crops being grown in soils of low to moderate fertility. Soils that have been well fertilized in the recent past, or have received manure or compost within the past year should be fertilized at rates lower, in some cases considerably lower, than those listed here. Alwa

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Silver Buffaloberry, ‘Shepherdia argentea’, is an ornamental shrub that has silvery new growth and thorny branches. The orange-red berries can be used for fine jellies. It has a rounded shape and yellow-white flowers. It makes an excellent hedge or specimen plant. This drought tolerant shrub or small tree, typically grows 8-12 feet tall and as wide. Its silver-green leaves give it spring and summer interest, but its silver stems and red to yellow fruit make it attractive all winter long. It is as tough as nails and is not susceptible to any particular pest or disease. It’s an underused plant that deserves more attention. It likes full sun, moderate water, tolerant of cold, wind, alkaline soil, and standing water. It has edible berries that the birds love.

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