Selected Suppliers of Organic Amendments
If you have a hard time sourcing compost, compost tea, organic soil amendments, etc. then try some online resources. Here are some very good ones:
Extremely Green
www.extremelygreen.com/fertilizerguide.cfm
Compostwerks
www.compostwerks.com
Earthfort
www.earthfort.com
More Great Resources
The Xerces Society’s “Gardening for Butterflies”
I have to give the folks at The Xerces Society a lot of credit. They took the rare step of publishing a book on native pollinators (Attracting Native Pollinators), before coming out with their new book, Gardening for Butterflies. Both are excellent resources and well worth purchasing. Gardening for Butterflies…
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Reliable Lists of Native Plants for Bees
It’s a great time of your to start planning your garden. Make sure to include a “Pollinator Victory Garden” in part of your landscape – a way to help win the war on pollinator decline. It’s not just about honey bees – we have 4,000 species of native bees in…
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Milkweed, Monarchs and More
The connection between Monarch Butterflies and milkweed plants has practically become common knowledge with the news of the Monarch facing extinction. But did you know how robust a milkweed community really is? The handy book, Milkweed, Monarchs and More, provides an insider’s view of the numerous invertebrate species that are…
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