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Greensand for Vegetable  Gardens:  What Is It, How Do I Use It, Do I Need It? Please Visit The Rusted Garden Vegetable Seed and Garden Shop This video focuses on explaining Greensand and its use for vegetable gardens. I discuss where it comes from, how to use, the cost and do you really need it. Do you absolutely need Greensand? No, in my opinion but I want you to decide. It has an application I like and therefor I use it for a specific need but it is not absolutely needed. My goal is to inform you about many of the products out there so you can determine if it is product you want to buy and use. Simple! Good Luck with Your Garden, Gary (The Rusted Garden) Join My New YouTube Channel Just for NEW Gardeners: My First Vegetable Garden Join My FB VIDEO Page - : The Rusted Garden FB Videos Join My FB DISCUSSION Group - : The Rusted Garden: All About Vegetable Gardening

Stop Fungus Gnats and Kill Insect Eggs  Seed Starting Mixes (Boil or Freeze or Both) Please Visit The Rusted Garden Vegetable Seed and Garden Shop Every wonder where those Fungus Gnats come from when you use new seed cells and bag starting mixes?  Many mixes are organic and natural and therefore are outside before they are bagged. Insects lay eggs... the eggs hatch with your germinating seeds. Boiling water or 48 hours in the freezer will kill off the insect eggs. Good Luck with Your Garden, Gary (The Rusted Garden) Join My New YouTube Channel Just for NEW Gardeners: My First Vegetable Garden Join My FB VIDEO Page - : The Rusted Garden FB Videos Join My FB DISCUSSION Group - : The Rusted Garden: All About Vegetable Gardening

Compost, Organic Fertilizer and Human Made Chemical/Processed Fertilizers Please Visit The Rusted Garden Vegetable Seed and Garden Shop I will be doing quite a few videos on fertilizers with the goal to educate. The truth is plants don’t care what you give them; compost, organic fertilizers or chemical/processed fertilizers. The NPK and all the rest are elements no matter what form they arrive in to the vegetable plants. Plants could care less. There is no harm to humans via consumption related to fertilizer. End of story. Unless you ... unwisely choose to eat the fertilizer directly. Soil might be impacted more by over, over, over (did I say over) use of chemical/processed fertilizers. Organic fertilizers need to be broken down by soil life to release their NPK. That is good for soil life. P/C fertilizers are made into a form that is readily available to a plant. They don't need soil life. High use of P/C could harm soil life. That won't happen if you don't abuse them. I r...

Save 75% on Garden Supplies by Shopping Clearance Items Now: It's Not an Ad, it's a Method! If you hit your local big box stores and even smaller local gardening jaunts, there is a good chance you will find clearance items for your gardening needs. The time frame for this is usually December through January, as things tend to go fast, check now! Basically, the new stuff is coming in and the old stuff is getting discounted. Your can really save a lot of money. Every year I do sequence videos on what I do over the gardening season. This is what I do every year in January. This is how I save tons of money on my gardening needs. This video shows you why you should take advantage of the end of the year inventory clearances at stores like Home Depot, Lowe's and Walmart. I highlight several products I got at nearly 75% off. I saved about $120. Good Luck with Your Garden, Gary (The Rusted Garden) Join My New YouTube Channel Just for NEW Gardeners: My First Vegetable Garden Join My...

Lighting and Vegetable Seed Starting Closet Principles and Design Ideas: Save Money and Grow More Vegetables in Your Garden Please Visit The Rusted Garden Vegetable Seed and Garden Shop Some great reasons to seed start your own vegetables indoors are: You will save money over buying transplants You will be able to start different varieties of vegetable plants you can't  buy as transplants You will have a great activity to enjoy during the cold months You will be able to maximize space and production in your garden Cost does not have to be expensive. If you have extra money, you can certainly buy pre-made systems that are very effective as they can cost 100's of dollars. If you have a tighter garden budget, you can make grow light systems in your closet or even in totes pretty inexpensively. It is an upfront cost for that year but you can use them for years and years after the initial build. The money you spend building the lighting system gets paid back in the ability to plant ...