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Organic Garden at Home

In the world of organic gardening, there are plenty of great resources available to both new and experienced organic gardeners alike. There are many e-guides, books, videos, and other resources available.

Organic produce is better than normal produce in terms of flavor and better tasting than regular produce. You can grow your own fruits and vegetables instead of getting them from the supermarket. This set of tips contains some of the best advice for helping a good organic gardener become a great organic gardener.

Excellent Advice for the Organic Gardening Beginner

When planting seeds in containers, plant the seed roughly three times deeper than the seed’s size. However, you should always know that some seeds cannot be covered, even the slightest bit, because they need to be in direct sunlight. Examples of these are petunias and ageratum. If you are unsure about the specific needs of your seeds, you should consult your local garden center or conduct further research online. Important things to look for include water requirements, ideal soil type, and recommended sunlight exposure.

As you plot the schematics of your garden, make room to create small valleys between each row. This will assist the water in flowing straight to the plants so that you will not have to water them quite as often. By doing this you won’t have to use as much tap water in your garden, and will therefore reduce your annual water bill.

Use gutters and rain barrels or buckets to trap the water and use it to hydrate your plants. This will save you from paying for extra water your watering. Rainwater is also be more beneficial for plants. You can do something similar by developing a compost pile for the garden. This helps to recycle, recycling and increasing the produce of your garden.

You may find an old plastic laundry basket ideal for gathering vegetables from your garden. A laundry basket will act as a strainer for your produce. When you put your produce in a basket, you can then rinse it off and let it strain any excess water through the laundry basket holes.

Six Tricks for Organic Gardening

Organic gardening is the way of growing vegetables and fruits with the use of things only found in nature.

Why would one want to indulge in organic garden?

1. You can easily make compost from garden and kitchen waste. Though this is more time-consuming than buying prepared chemical pesticides and fertilizers, it certainly helps to put garbage to good use and helps to save the environment.
2. Organic farming does not use chemicals that may have an adverse effect on your health. This is especially important when growing vegetables. Chemical companies tell us that the chemicals they use are safe if used according to direction, but research shows that even tiny amounts of poisons absorbed through the skin can cause such things as cancer, especially in children. On the average, a child ingests four to five times more cancer-causing pesticides from foods than an adult. This can lead to various diseases later on in the child’s life. With organic gardening, these incidents are lessened. Remember, pesticides contain toxins that have only one purpose – to kill living things.
3. Less harm to the environment. Poisons are often washed into our waterways, causing death to the native fish and polluting their habitat.
4. Organic farming practices help prevent the loss of topsoil through erosion. The Soil Conservation Service says that an estimated 30 – 32 billion tons of soil erodes from United States farmlands every year.
5. Cost savings. One does not need to buy costly chemical fertilizers and pesticides with organic gardening. Many organic recipes for the control of pest and disease come straight from the kitchen cupboard. Sometimes other plants can be grown as companions to the main crop. An example of this is the marigold, which helps to repel aphids from vegetables. Mixing 1 tablespoon of liquid dishwashing soap and 1 cup of cooking oil can make a cheap garden pest spray. Put 3 tablespoons of this mixture in 1 quart of water and spray on plants.
6. A simple mulch of pine needles will help to suppress the growth of weeds as well as keeping the moisture in.
   Organic gardening practices help to keep the environment safe for future generations.

Ideas to Grow a Garden the Organic Way

• Plant strawberries for your children in the organic garden.
• Children love to snap up these sweet juicy fruits for themselves and will be more willing to eat other foods you’ve planted as well.
• Try to put aspirin water for fighting plant diseases. Dissolve 1 aspirin (1.5 pills per gallon of water) in a plant disease fighting solution. You can just spray the solution on your plants to assist them in warding off diseases. The process can be repeated every three weeks.
• Keep your gardening tools handy to work more efficiently.
• This also gives your flowers appear beautiful and finished all year long.
• Coffee grounds are a great mixed in with your soil. Coffee grounds contain many of the essential nitrogenous nutrients that growing plants need
• Spacing is an important factor in gardening. You can easily underestimate how much space you need when they begin to grow. Plan your garden carefully and put an appropriate amount of distance between the seeds.
• Do you want to know how to kill weeds naturally? You need many layers of newspapers. Weeds cannot grow without sunlight. The newspaper will block sunlight and weeds because they no longer receive any sunlight. Newspapers tend to break down nicely over time to become part of the compost. You can cover the newspapers with mulch on top for aesthetic reasons
• Fill this jar up with beer to about one inch below the top of the jar. The beer will attract the slugs and they end up trapped.
• Create a raised bed for your organic garden out of stone, brick or untreated wood. Choose a wood that is resistant to rot and is untreated. The most popular options for this type of project are cypress, locust and cypress wood. In order to avoid toxic substances from getting into the ground and perhaps into your vegetables, don’t use treated wood since its chemicals can leech into the food crops and soil. If you have to use treated wood, consider using a liner to keep chemicals out of the soil.
• If you sell your crops and label them organic, you should become a certified organic gardener. This will up your sales and prove to your loyal customers that what they have been getting the best possible food that you possibly could get.
• Add mulch to your soil healthy. The mulch in a protection for the soil underneath. Mulch will keep the soil at an ideal temperature and protect your roots. It helps the soil retain moisture in the evaporation rate. This can also help control the weeds.
• You may be able to skip watering for an entire day if rain is on the pending weather
• When you are purchasing tomato seedlings for your organic garden, keep an eye on lush green starts with root systems that are bad. These starts will stick to the seedlings for quite some time, and the seedling won’t start to grow until these starts have gone
• You will no longer have to purchase your produce. Use what you learn from this article in order to grow your own vegetables and fruits.

In conclusion, the tips that you have read above should have you well on the path towards becoming the best organic gardener you can be. There are many resources available; you just have to learn how to find and use them. Take what you have learned and use it make your garden as successful as you can.

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