Last month we traveled down to one of Hamilton's best garden supply stores nestled minutes away from the downtown core. I'm talking about Tregunno Seeds Co.!
We've heard that this place used to sell all their own seeds that they saved and then got bought out by OSC.
The purpose for the visit was to pick up some bulbs of Tracie's favourite flowers.
Dahlia's attract an amazing variety of insects and are also incredibly beautiful flowers. What's even better is that with proper care and storing you can dig up the bulbs in the fall and save them for next year!
While we were in the store we spotted a bag of Hen manure and decided to try using it in the garden as a natural fertilizer. Natural manure and compost materials add organic matter that helps soil retain moisture which in turn helps decrease soil compaction and having nutrients leach away.
Hen manure offers a high percentage of nitrogen and phosphate. Using organic matter as manure is far superior to any chemical counterpart the reason being that it both feeds and builds the soil while it nourishes the plants. Hen manure is the richest animal manure in N-P-K (nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash) at the ratio of 1.1 .80 .50. All very important nutrients for plant growth. Now, we have also planted White Clover as a crop cover to help with our nitrogen levels as well as the fact that white clover is great for choking out most weeds but we can talk about weeds another time...
OH! Almost forgot it works great at keeping animals away from your plants.
OH! Almost forgot it works great at keeping animals away from your plants.
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