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Gardening Fact Sheets

Gardening
  • Composting
  • History of Community Gardening
  • Interplanting for Pest Control
  • Mulch

  • Raised Beds
  • Water in the Garden
  • Watering Garden Plants

Insects & Other Organisms
  • Controlling Insect Pests
  • Earthworms
  • Insects in the Garden
Plants
  • Alache
  • Alfalfa
  • Buckwheat
  • Carrot Family
  • Carrots
  • Chinese Cabbage and Bok Choy
  • Cilantro and Coriander
  • Collards
  • Cucurbits
  • Epazote
  • Papalo
  • Peppers
  • Rue
  • Snap Beans
  • Tomatoes
  • Rue
  • Snap Beans
  • Tomatoes
Soils
  • Soil Life
  • Soil pH
  • Soil Testing
  • Soil Texture
  • What's In Soil?

Weeds
  • Weeds
  • Ailanthus
  • Common Purslane
  • Common Ragweed
  • Field Bindweed
  • Lambsquarters
  • Redroot Pigweed
  • Yellow Nutsedge

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Gardening Fact Sheets

Huertos y jardines

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  • Riego de las Plantas del Huerto

Insectos y otros organismos

  • Control de Plagas de Insectos
  • Insectos en el Huerto
  • Lombrices de tierra

Plantas

  • Alache, Altea o Anoda
  • Alfalfa
  • Cilantro o Culantro y Coriandro
  • Col verde
  • Cucurbitaceas
  • Epazote, Pasote o Pisote
  • Habichuelas
  • la Familia de la Zanahoria
  • Papalo o Papaloquelite
  • Pimientos, Ajies o Chiles
  • Ruda
  • Tomates o Jitomates
  • Triego Grueso
  • Zanahorias

Suelos

  • El pH del suelo
  • La vida del suelo
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  • ?Que hay en el suelo?
  • Textura del suelo

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