Posted on 05/10/2014 6:09:10 PM PDT by RightSideNews
This is my story on how you can cut down your grocery bill while improving your diet. It’s called intensive organic vegetable gardening and it’s like growing money in the backyard.My wife and I completed our organic certification course last year at the University of Richmond’s School of Professional and Continuing Studies. We decided to take this course so we could eat healthier and reduce our grocery bill. This has been a fun project and we look forward to growing our own vegetables, or as I like to call it: growing money in the backyard!
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That may work but the cost would be considerable.
With the amount of mulch (1 foot) and two feet of snow most of this winter, I reckon it never got below freezing in the root zone.
Next year we plan to measure temperature in the root zone to see how warm it stays.
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Lurking’
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