Tips & Resources
Liberation Coffee Contributes
Accelerate Your Compost With Coffee Grounds
Did you know that besides waking you up, coffee can wake up your compost bin? It can; so after you make your morning cup, save your grounds for your compost bin.
Home composters can face a challenge to get needed nitrogen into the mix, especially if they lack access to cut grass or similar sources of nitrogen. Coffee grounds can fill the gap.
Select green (for nitrogen; think cut grass or fresh vegetable scraps) and brown (for carbon; think fallen leaves) materials to add to... Read More >
Commendable Compost
Interview with a Master Composter at Ground Delivery Garden Everything you need to know to compost from Cornell University Brochure A Comprehensive Resourcefrom a Viewer. Demonstration Video! Four Steps to Composting. Compost Demos at both gardens.
Here is the Compost Class Handout Mulching and Composting- Benefits and How to Use Click here for TCEQ guide. Coppell residents can buy a compost bin like the ones in the... Read More >
Bugs: Good, Bad, & Ugly
Thank you to the Girl Scouts that designed and organized these resource webpages for their... Read More >
Organic Gardening Guide
DYI Starting Transplants
Easy Tips for Vegetables from Community Gardeners How to make Compost Tea! Soil Food Web: Organic Gardening focuses on healthy soil to grow healthy plants. CCG Planting Calendar and Guide
GICD... Read More >
Soil Health
Healthy Soil: the Root to a Bountiful Garden
Healthy Soil: Local Gardener Interview How to Make Compost Tea Raised BedsIs your soil flooding? Get air through the soil by using raised beds.
Soil Food Web – Soil Primers
Get the best nourishment for soil with soil primers and other tips to make your soil sing! Feed the Soil
Key organic fertilizers that have the major nutrients! Compost Tea Recipe
How to... Read More >
Texas SmartScape
www.txsmartscape.com How to maintain your lawn in Texas with money saving tips! Would you like to take a Texas SmartScape tour! Check this out! Need tips on how to conserve water in Texas? Information on plants native to Texas and other resources. Water conservation and rain gardens. Need any advice? Have unanswered questions? Ask Mr. Smartypants... Read More >
Planting and Harvesting
1. Starting Point
Sustainable Gardening Tips and tricks for maintaining a healthy garden from GCID. Food Soil WebGet the best nourishment for soil with soil primers.
2. Timing is Key
Planting CalendarWhen should specific plants and veggies be harvested and planted? Look here!
When is it warm enough to plant?
Learn which plants thrive in which... Read More >