Good Gardening with Jai Let’s talk about produce. Do you know how many toxic chemicals are used on standard grocery store produce? Peaches from the grocery store are treated with as many as 62 herbicides and pesticides. Apples have 42 and potatoes have as many as 37. That’s scary! Everyone wants to raise a healthy and happy family, but organic produce can be hard to find and expensive. What can you do? You can take matters in to your own hands and plant fruit trees, vegetables and herbs to ensure your family is eating nutritious and healthy food fresh from the garden. I have heard numerous people say, “You can’t grow food Jai and husband, Mike here!” Perhaps you have tried gardening here in Florida behind their broccoli and had poor results like so many others. Read on to learn my secret. The secret to growing lush, flourishing and delicious fruits, veggies and herbs here in Florida is to prepare soil properly by adding needed ingredients into the soil.
in its heavenly scent and then savoring its delicious flavor. There is nothing like a peach fresh from the tree. You can have that and I will teach you how.
How To Create Healthy Soil First you need to decide what to plant and where. The next step is to create living soil that is teeming with nutrients that keep the plants healthy and bug and disease free. Sounds good, yes? The importance of minerals: Minerals are elements that are essential for life. If you do not have all the minerals in your body that are needed, you cannot have optimum health. There are about 90 minerals that must be in the soil for plants to be healthy. Those same minerals must be in the plants for us to eat so that we can be healthy.
Actually there is very little soil here; it is mostly beach sand so we have to make soil. It takes some work, but it is simple and the results are worth it. Imagine going out into The first thing you do is bring in compost, either composted manure or a good mix the back yard, picking a fresh peach off your tree, taking of top soil and compost. Mix it with the existing sandy dirt using a 4 to 1 ratio. Then add Organic Living’s Garden Minerals, a supplement that contains 91 minerals mined from an ancient seabed in Nevada. These minerals give fruits and veggies their flavor and sweetness. They also increase nutrient density, the ratio of the nutrient composition of a given food to the nutrient requirements of the human body. That is food that makes your body satisfied, healthy and happy.
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