April 2020 – Smarter Not Harder Blog

Growing better crops? Here is an interesting concept.

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Greetings SNH’ers, I have been working this morning to develop a diagram showing how you might improve your gardening through optimizing the soil condition for each crop. More to follow in the coming months.

Just some spring gardening pics!

Powdery mildew spotted on the zucchini. Treated with milk as a “home remedy” seen from other pages. Also added some diluted milk and water to some slow growing roma tomatoes.

Yellow bell pepper changing from green to yum!

Some great bed prep happening in California at Mr. SNH’s folks house. Those are some nice garden boxes!

Upcycling your milk cartons

If you’re like me and happen to have a lot of milk cartons laying around, you might want to put them to good use by using them as planters. Just make sure you fill them with good soil, and cut a hole in the bottom for drainage. This is a great way to upcycle and re-use your food containers.

Milk Carton reborn as a seed starting planter

CV19 Victory Garden is Growing 2020_04_05 update

Greetings SNH’ers,

The pole beans are growing quite well and seeing significant growth. The cabbage is looking healthy too. This morning, we inter-planted more onions between the bigger plants. Mrs. SNH is finding containers to catch some rainwater as it looks like we might see some rain today.