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Lavender
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what is vermicompost?
Vermicompost is the product or process of composting using various worms, usually red wigglers, white worms, and other earthworms to create a heterogeneous mixture of decomposing vegetable or food waste, bedding materials, and vermicast. If your interested in starting your own vermicompost, I have found many ads on Bends craigslist advertising the sale of red…
Hops Vine
Hops vines are gaining some serious popularity in Central Oregon and for good reason. Climbing hops vine grow 20-25 ft. in a season and is winter hardy in the North. Large leaves look pretty against a fence or trellis. Produces pale yellow hops that give home brews authentic Old World flavor. I would suggest full sun to…
Compost tea
Compost tea is a way to give your plants a boost feed and is a great soil tonic. Compost tea is preferred over manure tea by diehard organic gardeners because it yields greater nutrients and is considered to have more integrity. Obviously this is a tea that you do not want to drink!
Juniper Trees in Central Oregon
Juniper is an evergreen tree that is similar to a pine tree in many ways. Junipers are native to many parts of the world, including North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Junipers have been used in many parts of the world for hundreds of years. Junipers are drought-tolerant and good in areas where water…
Pussy Willow
One of the first trees to break bud in late winter or early spring, learning how to grow pussy willows provides the garden with unique interest from the furry catkins, which are soon followed by whitish, yellow flowers, when much of the landscape still sleeps in dormancy. The pussy willow is one of my top choices…