GARDENER'S READING ROOM
Organic Gardening

New Products 2010
We are constantly looking for new products that can help you with your gardening projects and help give you more effective controls for your gardening problems. Read more.

Worm Bins 101
This year more and more people are interested in having a worm bin. Red worms, Eisenia fetida, turn food waste into vermicompost, a healthy addition to your garden. Read more.

Soil Amendments and Mulches
What's a soil amendment? What's a mulch? Which do you need, and why? Read more.

Bio-degradable Containers Have Arrived At Sky!
Sky Nursery has been in the forefront of providing our customers with natural and organic choices in fertilizers, disease and insect control, seeds and live goods for years. Read more.

Preparing Your Vegetable Patch for Next Year's Bounty
As you harvest the last of summer's bounty, it's time to think about preparing for next year. Read more.

New Products for 2008
The bane of the home orchard is hard-to-control apple maggot. Pheromone and sticky traps can be partially effective, but for serious growers the Seattle Tree Fruit Society recommends little nylon "footies" called Maggot Barriers. Read more.

The Solution for Clay Soils: Gardner & Bloome Soil Building Compost™
If you are looking for a long-term cure for hard clay soils with poor drainage, look no further. Read more.

Disease Control... the Organic Way
The Pacific Northwest is a great place to live and garden. The ocean and mountains give rise to a variety of microclimates that allow us an unmatched breadth of plant material. This same wet, mild climate makes our area a great incubator for plant diseases. Read more.

All Worms Are Not Created Equal
Did you know that: earthworms act as miniature plows and fertilizer spreaders, aerating the soil, turning dead organic matter into fertilizer, and placing that fertilizer near your plants' roots? Read more.

The Veggie Gardener's Best Friend
This time of year, the days are short enough to give you an excuse to head - or stay - indoors. Put up those worn out feet for some much deserved rest and think about gardening...Read more.

Feeding Mulches, Weeding Mulches
Used properly, mulch can suppress weeds, enrich your soil, hold moisture, improve your soil texture, protect plant roots from erosion and temperature extremes, and immediately neaten your garden beds. Read more.

Weed and Feed—or Else?
You want a lush, beautiful lawn. You want to be a responsible, low-chemical gardener. You know you can't have it all…. Read more.

Cover Crops
Planting cover crops in unused beds is a cheap and effective way to improve your soil during the winter season. Read more.

Cranefly Control
Don't panic! Controlling cranefly is not as difficult as you think! Read more.

Worm Bins
Worm bins are an easy way to create a nutritious treat for your plants and cut down on kitchen waste. Read more.

Good Bugs Bad Bugs
It's spring, and as the weather warms and the daylight increases with each passing day, so does the insect populations in our gardens. Read more.

The Battle between Good and Evil . . . Insects
As the days start lengthening, you might find yourself venturing outside checking on your roses looking for the early signs of spring. Read more.

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