Garden Myth Busters! Are Coffee Grounds Good for Your Garden?
THE MYTH: Directly applying coffee grounds to garden soil will benefit your plants
THE REALITY: Read on to learn more!
THE MYTH: Directly applying coffee grounds to garden soil will benefit your plants
THE REALITY: Read on to learn more!
THE MYTH: Compost tea suppresses pathogens and enriches garden soil.
THE REALITY: Read on to learn more!
THE MYTH: Always fertilize your lawn in the spring.
THE REALITY: read on to learn more!
THE MYTH: Vinegar is an effective way to kill weeds.
THE REALITY: Household vinegar has long been heralded for its many uses around the home and garden, but is it actually an effective weed control method?
THE MYTH: Adding eggshells to a tomato plant’s planting hole prevents blossom end rot.
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THE MYTH: Till vegetable gardens every year.
THE REALITY: For hundreds of years, an annual rite of spring has been to till the garden to get it ready for planting. However, current evidence indicates that annual tilling really isn’t necessary, and may actually harm the garden instead of helping it.
THE MYTH: The best way to disinfect pruning tools is to use a bleach solution.
A common and much-debated garden myth is that a chlorine bleach solution is the best way to disinfect pruning tools. So popular, in fact, that a Google search on the topic comes back with 1.7 million!