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Identifying Slug and Snail Damage:  Using Iron Phosphate to Effectively Kill and Manage Snails and Slugs Slugs and snails are common in most gardens. They love leafy greens. They come out with the warming spring rains. I found the best way to manage them is with Iron Phosphate baited pellets. It can be used in organic gardens. Please Visit The Rusted Garden Vegetable Seed and Garden Shop I had such a problem that anything green would be destroyed.I had small snails that would chew 100's of holes in plants like Chinese Cabbage and Bok Choy. The larger slugs would make large holes in my Kohlrabi and Cabbages. The cabbage heads would form and I would find many many small snails in them. Iron Phosphate is so effective, I forget I have a problem. As long as I use it regularly, I notice little, if any damage. I use it about every 2 weeks and I don't over sprinkle/concentrate it around the garden. A nice light broadcasting of the pellets is all you need. Good Luck with Your Garden, Ga...

Compost Tea Does Not Create More Fertilizer (This is What it Does) Please Visit The Rusted Garden Vegetable Seed and Garden Shop I will be making videos on some of the myths we hear and on the silly prices we are being charged for organic fertilizers. So you can each be informed and decide how you want to use something in your garden. Compost tea does not create fertilizer. Fertilizer comes from elements. You can't create an element like Nitrogen, Phosphorous or Potassium. That is you can't grow it in a tea. If you could we would grow gold. Same idea. Compost tea is really nothing more than seeping the elements from compost into a liquid. So if you put in a shovel full of compost, you won’t get any more N P or K than is already in the shovel full of compost. Therefore compost tea does have some very weak fertilizer it. For the sake of straight fertilizing you are better off just put the compost around the plant. Compost tea can grow soil bacteria at a high rate. By adding in su...

(2 of 9) Growing Tomatoes & Peppers:  Acclimation (to Sun), Fertilizing, Cup Transplanting Peppers  Please Visit The Rusted Garden Vegetable Seed and Garden Shop This is a 9 part series that takes you from seed starting to picking tomatoes and peppers. This is the 2nd video.  I shows you how to transplant the peppers into cups in 3 ways and how to fertilize them. I also talk about acclimating them to the sun.  This is a series you can follow to grow your own tomatoes and peppers. Makes sure you have annotations on as I add information in text boxes. The 9 videos will be produced over the 2016 season. 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