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started by Jimmie Key on 10 Apr 12
started by Jimmie Key on 10 Apr 12
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started by Jimmie Key on 10 Apr 12
When you prepare fresh vegetables for your meals, take a couple minutes after you're done with dinner and cut up the extra pieces finely, then add them to the garden. As the chopped up vegetables compost, they will give your soil good nourishment. Obviously, you can also save some for the general composting mixture, but an immediate use of smaller amounts is highly beneficial due to its shorter requirements.
When you're making a compost pile, you should use fresh and dried plants to get it started. Grass clippings, vegetable and fruit leftovers, and grass clippings are all examples of green plant material. Dried plant material consists of sawdust, shredded paper, cardboard, straw, and cut-up and dried wood material. Avoid using ashes, charcoal, diseased plants and meat-eating animal manure.
High soil quality means higher quality plants, and high-quality plants are more resistant to disease and insect infestations. You won't be killing off large amounts of insects, but good practices can help avoid the damage they can cause.
Take a look at how and where your trees are planted, in order to provide shade. Since tree shade cools your home naturally, it'll cut back on your energy consumption and lower your electric bill.
What plants are native to your area? Stick to native plants, grasses, flowers and bushes when you plan out your landscape. Selecting plants which will thrive in your area, and get along with the plants you already have, you won't have to use as much fertilizer or pesticides. In fact, native species typically grow best when fertilized with organically produced compost.
Organize your gardening so that you can work efficiently. It's frustrating to search for a tool for a half hour. By keeping your tools in a certain area, they will always be ready whenever you are. If needed, purchase a tool belt or heavy duty pants with plenty of pockets.
Be sure that holes you dig for planting trees and shrubbery are ragged around the edges. If you place a plant in a hole with glazed sides, the roots will not be able to penetrate the soil properly.
Organic gardening has been around for a while. Much longer than chemical gardening. The Indians showed pilgrims that if they put some fish on the seeds after planting, they would grow better. To help your organic garden along, you should start the previous year by making a compost pile. Composting is an easy way to recycle and reduce the amount of trash you must dispose of, in addition to helping your garden.
If you are growing plants inside of your home, you need to keep the thermostat set to 65 to 75 degrees during the day. The temperature needs to remain steady and warm so the plants can grow. If you do not want to keep your home that warm during the winter months, you can get a heat lamp for the organic plants instead.
Try using coffee grounds on the soil. Coffee grounds are full of nitrogenous nutrients that growing plants need. Nitrogen is generally a way to make your plants grow bigger, better and faster.
As this article stated, there's quite a lot involved in successful organic gardening. With hard work and patience, you will be happy with the end result--a fabulous organic garden. The ideas presented above should help you hone your skills and reap a great harvest from your organic garden.
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