An Introduction to Organic Garden Fertilizer and Compost

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An example of an anaerobic compost method, this type of compost pile should be turned every few weeks.
An example of an anaerobic compost method, this type of compost pile should be turned every few weeks.
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Jeanie Darlington shares tips for making and using organic fertilizer.
Jeanie Darlington shares tips for making and using organic fertilizer.

Tangy red tomatoes, butter peas, crisp lettuce, sweet onions, corn on the cob, watermelon that drips off the chin and other succulent goodies … fresh from your own garden. All pure, natural and organically grown.

It’s a great dream — but where do you start? Especially if you were raised on concrete and have no handle on terms like “compost,” “rock phosphate” and “ecological balance.”

Well, we’ve all got to begin somewhere and Jeanie Darlington has written a great little book that is titled “Grow Your Own: An Introduction to Organic Gardening.” It is just that, and Mother Earth News has collected a few of her chapters regarding organic fertilizer and compost.

Getting Inspired to Start an Organic Garden

I haven’t been a mad gardener all my life. In fact, I really only began in the spring of 1968 with a vegetable garden. I had tended a small flower garden behind our flat in London, but this was my first real attempt. And it was the first whole summer Sandy and I had ever been in one place since we’d met six years before.

  • Published on May 1, 1970
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