by Walt Benecki | Feb 4, 2016 | Organic Resource Center, Uncategorized
Question: How many square feet of bed space will a one cubic foot bag of biochar cover? Answer: 10 to 20 square feet would be about...
by Walt Benecki | Jul 14, 2015 | blog, Organic Resource Center, Uncategorized
Keep the lady bugs refrigerated until dusk (they are less likely to fly away). Mix the packet of beneficial insect food with 1 pint water (even better if water is non-chlorinated…you can let tap water stand for a while and the...
by Walt Benecki | Nov 29, 2014 | Organic Resource Center, Uncategorized
Get your favorite gardener something they will really use this year. Walt’s Rainy Pacific North West Blend Organic Fertilizer: Give their garden a boost with this 7-4-9 all-purpose organic fertilizer. Great for veggies and ornamentals a like. If your gardener is a...
by Walt Benecki | Oct 31, 2014 | Organic Resource Center, Uncategorized
(In no particular Order) Fish Meal: We’ve all heard the story of Squanto teaching the Pilgrims how to grow maize with Fish. Fish meal keeps with that tradition. A great slow release fertilizer best added early in the season. Fish Meal will help your young plants get...
by Walt Benecki | Oct 22, 2014 | Organic Resource Center, Uncategorized
This is a complicated subject, and we don’t claim to be experts, but here is a quick and dirty explanation. A soil’s ability to react with positively charged molecules is called it’s cation exchange capacity (CEC). The higher the CEC, the higher the...
by Walt Benecki | Oct 17, 2014 | Organic Resource Center, Uncategorized
There is a lot more that could be written on this topic, but here are the quick and dirty differences between calcium sources for your soil. Agricultural Lime: Calcium carbonate – CaC03 Pure calcium carbonate is used to help prevent the spread of various diseases,...
