'Growing Organic'

Rotate Your Crop Families: The Nine Main Groups

You can simplify your rotations by sorting your crops into these major plant families: Onion family: onions, garlic, leeks and shallots Carrot family: carrots, (more...)

Perlite

Perlite is an amorphous volcanic glass that has a relatively high water content, typically formed by the hydration of obsidian. It occurs naturally and has the unusual (more...)

The Neem Tree: A Miracle Plant

History Neem is a tropical evergreen tree native to the Indian sub-continent. This tree has a history of growing up to 50 ft. high and has been used for many different (more...)

High Density Vertical Growth (HDVG) Garden

In Victorian times, houses were very narrow, multi-storied, and had a small “footprint” on the land. This left more land for private gardening, and commons, (more...)

Aggregate Hydroponics (Agroponics)

In aggregate hydroponic systems, a solid, inert medium provides support for the plants. As in liquid systems, the nutrient solution is delivered directly to the plant (more...)

Coco Coir

Coco coir is a relatively new growing medium available these days for the hydroponics soil less culture. Coco coir is being produced as a bi-product of the coconut tree. (more...)

Our Green Zebra Tomatoes

Medium-sized yellow golden orange blush with dark-green zebra-like streaks. The flesh is lime-emerald in color that has an invigorating lemon-lime flavor. They are (more...)

Benefits of Ruta Maya Organic and Shade Grown Coffee

In the beginning, all coffee was organic and shade grown. Coffee cultivation began in the ninth century in Africa and since most varieties of coffee are naturally (more...)

Our Moon Glow Tomatos

Our organic tomato seeds produce indeterminate, regular-leaf tomato plants bearing heavy yields of beautiful, 6-8 oz., 2″,  blunt-pointed globes. A brilliant, (more...)