A New Organic Plant Food

I was watching a Youtube video on organic gardening a couple of weeks ago, and the guy highly recommended something called 'Azomite'. I had never heard of azomite, but I learned that it is basically rock dust. It contains lots of necessary trace minerals that plants need to have.

  One thing I have learned about organic gardening, is that plants need food. That should be a no brainer, but I was not diligent in feeding my plants for most of my gardening years. No wonder my plants never grew!

   I posted a message in a gardening forum many years ago. I believe I called it, 'Nothing grows in my garden'. Someone responded by saying that they had an uncle who could never grow anything. No matter what it was, it always died. Even plants wouldn't grow on his grave site.

  I am hoping that my brown thumb will turn green. Maybe Azomite will do the trick.

Mystery Plants

It's kind of funny but I planted yellow mangosteen, goji berries, and soursop last year. I honestly did not know what I was doing, nor how long it would take for the seeds to germinate. 

  Instead of these plants coming up though, some other plants came up, which I could not identify. Thinking that maybe they were plants that were named from the list above, I had high hopes. But my hopes were dashed when I looked for pictures of goji berries, soursop, and yellow mangosteen plants. 

None of them resembled my mystery plants. That is why they are called 'mystery plants'.

This one looks like a Christmas tree. It's definitely not soursop!

   Here is another plant which is growing just fine. It looks a little like a kiwi plant. It's growing very well and is becoming a strong plant.

What will this plant become? What kind of fruit will it bear?

 But what is really funny, is, that I planted tomato plants in little pots. Well, in these pots are growing beautiful squash plants! Not sure what happened, but, I think that the plants came from seeds that were placed in the worm compost bin. Whatever they are, they had to come from a raw fruit, not cooked. So, I have had cantaloupe, cucumbers, and some squash plants where the seeds may have come from. Only time will tell what they are, and what kinds of seeds will be planted. 

  

Gardening With The Back To Eden Method

   If you have never heard of the 'Back to Eden' gardening method, you should take a look. I became aware of it a couple of months ago, and it is fascinating. The guy who developed this method basically took a plot of land that was useless, and made the whole thing arable. He's got all kinds of foods growing in his yard, even food that isn't supposed to grow there!
  I started out, years ago, doing the square foot method, using raised beds. You can get a lot of plants together in a garden bed, if you have raised beds and are using the square foot method. So, the question is, can I incorporate both the Back to Eden gardening method with Square Foot Gardening?
  I've been saving newspapers to shred, to layer the garden with. On top of that, you would put compost, and then you put wood chips. I will use mulch for right now, because I don't have a chipper/shredder yet. I want to get the one on the side of the page, and amazon has them at a lower price than before, but I have to get more Smart Pots first before I can invest in the chipper/shredder.
  One of the advantages of the Back To Eden method, is that there are supposed to be no weeds. The soil under the newspapers and mulch will be rich. Can't wait to get going on this, but I still need to collect more newspapers. Only the black/white sections of the papers can be used. I also use them in the compost bins, so I really need a lot of newspapers.
  Amazon carries the 'Back to Eden' video, but you can also find it on the internet and watch it for free. It is called, 'Back to Eden' and it is a Vimeo video. Youtube has some related videos, but does not host the main 'Back to Eden' one.