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Is 10-10-10 Fertilizer Really The Best Choice For Your Garden?

10-10-10 fertilizer is certainly one of the most popular fertilizers. This week, I received a great question about the nutritional difference between it and compost: Most bags of compost and manure say...

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Plant Sickness - Why Do Pests Eat The Sick Plants In Your Garden?

Studying plant sickness is fascinating because we know pests only dine on sick plants. What I have for you today is some info on why those plants invite pests when they're sick, and how to avoid that.

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Garden Watering - Exciting? No... Important? Absolutely...

Watering the vegetable garden. Chances are you don't want to spend much time reading about it, because water is just always there for us. We take it for granted because it comes so readily out of our...

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Compost Tea Recipe To Inoculate Your Organic Garden With Microorganisms

A compost tea recipe doesn't have to be complicated in order to be effective. In fact, the simplest compost tea recipes are often the best because they're easier to experiment with.

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Self-Sustaining Garden - How I Can Leave My Organic Garden For 8+ Weeks

One of my goals is to have a self-sustaining garden. Today is a good example of why. Heather and I are visiting her brother and his family in New York City.

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Companion Planting Chart - Boost Your Garden With Companion Plants

Today, I have an incredible companion planting chart to share with you for FREE! But first, let's briefly get into what companion planting is and why it's important.

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Intensive Gardening VS Permaculture Gardening VS Biological Gardening

The scope of this topic probably calls for at least a few thousand words.

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Growing A Vegetable Garden (And Skipping The Doctor)

We had a family get together a couple of weeks ago. It's always fun trying to explain to family or friends who I haven't seen for awhile about what I do for a "living."

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My Home Vegetable Garden - Video Walk-through With A Few Tips

Yesterday, I was recording a video in my home vegetable garden that will serve as an introduction to the growing food section of the Academy... (Note to Academy members, that section will be ready this...

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Hobbit Garden: 2 Organic Gardening Tips I Picked Up From Hobbits

I went hiking in the mountains on Tuesday. My surroundings got me thinking we could learn a thing or two about organic gardening by checking out a good old-fashioned hobbit garden.

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Meet My Sister!

As you may know, I’ve been rather busy for the past 2 years filming videos for the Academy. It's been loads of fun, but it means I rarely get around to doing free videos, and sometimes it's 3 or more...

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Fall Bulb Planting - 7 Tips For The Biggest, Healthiest Flowers

It’s fall bulb planting time! We’ve been especially aware of that this week because my sister Haley has been living in Amsterdam during the last few years.

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Medicinal Plants List From My Organic Garden That I Used Last Week

Yesterday morning, Haley had an interesting encounter with a sniffling boy and his grandmother. It prompted us to put together a short medicinal plants list of 5 plants you may want to consider for...

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How To Use Mulch - Mulching Trees VS Mulching The Vegetable Garden

There are a couple of important things I want to share about how to use mulch in your organic garden.

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Benefits of Weeds - 6 Reasons You Should Keep Some Around

Yes, weeds can be a bummer, but many gardeners don’t know there are a lot more benefits of weeds than downsides. Besides, they’re easily controlled in the garden with mulch.

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The Most Important Steps When Preparing A Garden For Winter

It's November, which means:Christmas music is beginning to waft through stores across North America, andI'm preparing my garden for winter.The most important task to prepare a garden for winter is...

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Phil's 2013 Update

Happy New Year Everyone!I thought it would be fun to update you on what's been going on at SmilingGardener.com in 2012 and what I'll be up to in 2013.First, thanks to everyone for your support, for...

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Organic Gardening Lessons From The Amazon Jungle

Heather spent a day hanging with rescued monkeys.Hey guys, guess where I am?Okay, I gave it away in the title. I’m in the Amazon jungle!Heather and I are living in Peru for 3 months. While we’re here...

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Amazon Jungle Lesson 1 Of 3 - Mineralization

Welcome to the first of three steps on how we can learn from nature when it comes to improving garden health, especially organic soil health.(You'll see me swatting at mosquitoes and these other biting...

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Amazon Jungle Lesson 2 Of 3 - Organic Matter In Soil

In the last post I talked about improving soil mineralization.Now I want to discuss another aspect of organic soil health that is important for so many things: organic matter in soil.Organic matter...

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