Organic Gardening Tips: April 2013

Dirty, Rotten, Filthy Organic Garden Fertilizer - The Truth - Vol 1

Can you handle the truth, about organic gardening fertilizer? Of course you can. Hello my wonderful gardening chums, it's Mrs. Beatrix Potts your, "Organic Garden Maven." And you of course are a vegetable gardening aficionado, why else would you be reading these illuminating words of wisdom? And that puts you in very special company.

Today we're going to explore a most breathtaking issue, that of organic garden fertilizer. That's right, in this article and in the series of articles that follow we will be discussing the wonderful world of organic compost. Oh, I know some of you will be saying, "Be still my throbbing heart." I know that you will agree with me when I say that this is just so exciting.

As you know I always feel it's important to let you know what's coming up. So in that spirit I want you to know that in this article and the next two articles you and I are going to be taking an in-depth look at the Myths, Misconceptions and Mistakes about organic gardening fertilizer. I need not tell you that compost, and by that I mean the 'quality and correct' organic compost, is probably the most important element for your successful organic vegetable garden.

As you well know Mrs. Potts is a renowned and, I blush to say world-famous, writer on the subject of vegetable gardening. What you may not be aware of is that Mr. Melvin Potts, wonderful spouse of 30 years, is one of the world's leading experts in Organic Garden Compost. And just to put this in perspective he is known as, "Mr. Organic Garden Compost Man." Isn't that just so cute? And isn't it wonderful you get me, and Melvin Potts the courageous and effervescent "Compost Man" all in this important series of breakthrough articles about the fascinating subject of Organic Gardening Compost.

On with the show. So, let's look at the title of our article to begin with. You may think that the title of this article and our series is flashy, over-the-top, and even a little bit of hype. You know very well that Mrs. Beatrix Potts never overstates her case for vegetable gardening. Your correspondent has it on good authority that the most important element in having an article read and be appreciated by wonderful readers, like you, is the title. (A very famous person sent a personal e-mail explaining all of this to your faithful correspondent.)

So let's examine that title. Is compost dirty? Most organic gardening compost is not even composed of dirt, it is composed of vegetable matter that will be and has been broken down by microbes, nematodes and the most 'uncommon' earthworm. So we must conclude that there is no 'dirt' involved in organic gardening compost.

Is organic garden fertilizer filthy? Filthy implies a degree of decay. Organic compost can be accurately described as fermented, and most certainly decomposed, but never, ever would we describe it as rotten.

Ah, filthy. We find that filthy is a pejorative term that denotes foul and disgusting and were you to use 'enhanced interrogation techniques' on us we would never in a million years describe organic fertilizer as neither disgusting nor foul.

So yes, my dear vegetable gardening chums, the headline was simply a slightly deceitful device to get you to read this extremely informative and important article concerning Organic Garden Fertilizer. After all, this article is invaluable to your gardening efforts. And you know that Beatrix Potts is loathe to exaggerate.

The first misconception were going to deal with is that you can put anything in your compost. This is far, far from the truth and is totally contradictory to what you want to be including in your organic vegetable fertilizer.

Well, your faithful, "Organic Garden Maven" Beatrix Potter has, unfortunately run out of space, much to your chagrin.

Until next time I wish you, "Happy Gardening." Your faithful servant and gardening buddy.

In Volume 2 of this series we will be looking at just what you can add to your most wonderful organic compost. If you would like a FREE copy of the wonderful book The Complete Guide to Organic Vegetable Gardening, please go to my Blog it's an Org, The Beatrix Potts Blog. The Blog is primarily about Organic Gardening Fertilizer - Compost. As Mr. Melvin Potts, wonderful spouse and "Mr. Organic Gardening Compost Man" would say, the Life's Blood of the Organic Vegetable Garden.

Beatrix Potts has been gardening since, most likely, before you were born. She's really not as old as you think and she is really younger than you can imagine. At her Blog she recommends, "The World's Greatest Compost." To read this fascinating information please go The Beatrix Potts Blog You will be delighted that you did. And if you're curious as to the appearance of your faithful correspondent, go to the blog and click on About. Do contact Beatrix, please. All my best to you.

10 Organic Gardening Tips

Are you interested in creating your own organic vegetable garden? Here are some green gardening tips that will lead you in the right direction:

10 Organic Gardening Tips

1. Test your soil:

If you are looking to have a successful outcome with an organic vegetable garden, you should first test your soil with a do-it-yourself home testing kit before you plant anything. These testing kits can be found at local garden centers and on the Internet at garden speciality stores. The kits use a number scale, 0 to 14, that helps you determine the acidity or alkalinity (also known as pH) levels of your soil. For most vegetables, an ideal number is about 6.5. If the results are too acidic (towards the low end of the scale) or too alkaline (towards the high end of the scale), your plants will not be able reap the benefits of the soil's nutrients. Once you know the results of your soil, you will be able to adjust the soil accordingly by balancing these levels with the nutrients it is lacking.

2. Make plans ahead of time and decide where and how you will grow your garden:

Before you begin digging up your lawn, take a look at your property and decide where you would like to plant a garden. Location is very important, as you will want to pay attention to the position of the sun throughout the day (your plants will need healthy doses of direct sunlight each day), the rockiness of the ground, the drainage quality of the soil, and the location's relation to your main water source.

If you have high quality soil in your yard and you have determined a location, you will want to take advantage of the benefits found in it. Healthy soils have upwards of 650 million microorganisms per one gram of soil. These organisms already present, such as earthworms and other forms of soil life are essential to the life of the soil and will help your garden prosper by providing your plants with valuable nutrients and minerals.

What to do if your soil is not healthy or if you do not have space for a garden at home:

Build a raised bed

By making a raised bed, you will have control over the garden's soil quality. When building your bed, use untreated wood, stones, or brick as a side border and be sure to make the border at least 16 inches high as the depth is important. The plants' roots will need room to stretch and grow.

Consider container gardening

If you are a city dweller, you do not have to miss out on the benefits of growing your own produce. Plant in containers that are large enough to accommodate root growth. Be sure they also have drainage holes. If you are planting organic herbs, pots that are at least 6 inches across are ideal. Another helpful hint is to use plastic pots instead of terra cotta pots. Plastic may not be as aesthetically pleasing, but they will hold moisture longer and will not dry out as quickly as terra cotta pots.

Join a local community garden

Another option is to join a community garden in your area. This is a great way to reap the benefits of growing your own organic food if you do not have land at home. Community gardens are vacant lots or fields that have been turned into mini-farms so that members of the community can plant small gardens of their own. To find out if there are community gardens near you, contact your local parks and recreation department, visit the website http://www.communitygarden.org, or take a stroll in your neighborhood and see if any gardens exist. If you stumble across one, step inside and ask a member what you need to do to join.

3. Select authentic, high quality organic vegetable seeds to use in your garden:

Organic seeds can be found at local nurseries, garden stores, home centers, online seed stores, seed catalogs, and farm supply stores. Always make sure the seed company is "certified organic" and be sure to stay away from any seeds that are "genetically engineered." To save money, start growing the seeds indoors and transplant outdoors when ready.

4. Make your own compost:

Compost, also known as "gardeners gold," is a vital element in organic gardening that improves the soil structure of your garden. Compost provides a great source of nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium, and micro/macronutrients essential for plant growth. It also aids in stabilizing soil moisture and pH which helps keep the soil cooler during the summer months.

Other benefits of organic compost:

Great source of food for wildlife because it attracts insects and fungi that eat decaying matter. These small animals support larger animals like songbirds
Suppresses plant disease
Assists in controlling soil erosion
Acts as a mild herbicide
Reduces need to apply commercial fertilizers
Reduces amount of waste sent to landfills
Reduces gas emissions that would result from transporting kitchen waste to a landfill

How to compost:

Build or buy a compost bin. These can be found at home centers, garden centers, and online.
Place compost material in repeated layers. To give your compost the best result, alternate layers of green matter with brown matter. An example would be alternating kitchen scraps with straw/stalks or dead leaves with grass clippings.
Cover compost heap for optimal results. This will avoid moisture loss and keep in heat.
Keep the pile moist as a wrung-out sponge.
Aerate and turn compost pile over frequently.
When ready, pile will look like fresh fine soil.

Some ideas for good compostables:

Kitchen waste
Aquarium water, plants, and algae
Sawdust
Tea leaves/coffee grounds
Pet rabbit or hamster droppings
Eggshells
Old spices
Lawn clippings (thin layer)

Make leafmould:

Leafmould is a dark brown, rich and crumbly material that is created from naturally decomposed Autumn leaves that have fallen onto the ground. It is an excellent soil conditioner and mulch, a great earthworm meal, and is easy to make.

To make leafmould:

Collect fallen leaves (avoid evergreen leaves) and place in a container to rot Leafmould matures best in high moisture, so the best time to collect leaves is just after rain.
Wait 9 months to a year for the leafmould to mature.

5. Use water wisely:

Water conservation, harvesting, and recycling are great methods for organic gardening.

Recycle/harvest rain water

Not only is rainwater is a great way to hydrate your plants, but it is also an excellent way to lower your monthly water bills, reduce storm-water runoff, and prevent flooding and erosion. It is generally clean, free of containments and byproducts such as minerals, fluoride and chlorine and has a low pH which plants and soils like. Rainwater can be collected and stored using gutters, downspouts, rain barrels and/or cisterns and can be used whenever needed, even later in the season during dry weather.

Use a soaker hose

A soaker hose is a great and easy way to save time and money in your garden. Water seeps out of soaker hoses and delivers water directly to your plants' roots while keeping the leaves dry, which helps prevent disease. Hand watering is time consuming and tedious, sprinklers can be wasteful due to evaporation and runoff, and drip irrigation is expensive.

Avoid grey water

When recycling water, avoid use of grey water (household waste water that comes from sources such as sinks, washer machines, and showers) on any plants used for consumption. Grey water may contain phosphates, nitrogen, and pathogens that can be harmful to your health.

Watering tips:

Water your garden when the air and soil are cool, typically in the early morning or evening hours. During these times, less water will be lost due to evaporation.
Water deeply but less often. Direct the water at the root systems at the base of the plant. This will encourage plants to grow deeper roots, causing them to need less watering. Shallow watering causes the roots to grow close to the surface, making them more vulnerable to drought.
Remember that plants and soil in containers will dry out much faster than in the ground and require frequent watering.
Avoid watering leaves. Excess water film on a plant makes it more susceptible to disease.
Shallow rooted vegetables such as beans and greens need to be watered more often with lighter applications than deep rooted plants like corn and tomatoes. These vegetables require more water but less often.
Use a milk jug. For a clever trick, take a 1 gallon milk jug and poke very small holes into the bottom. Bury most of the jug next to your plants when you plant your garden. If you leave it uncapped, you can place your water hose nozzle into the opening to fill. With this method, the water slowly drips into the ground and encourages deep plant roots. This self-irrigation system is great for whenever you need to travel and leave the garden unattended.

7. Weed Control:

Weeds can be a serious threat to gardens because they remove valuable moisture, nutrients, sunlight and growing space needed by crops.

Some ways to control weeds:

Select high quality vegetable seeds or transplants
By planting high quality seeds, the chances of them containing weed seeds or seedlings is very low.

Rotate your vegetable crops
As crops differ in their ability to compete with weeds, rotating crops between hardy competitors and weaker plants can reduce weeds.

Use ground cover
The use of ground cover and organic mulches such as hay, straw, glass clippings, and manure in your garden is one of the most effective ways to control weeds. Spread the ground cover 2-3 inches thick as this will block sunlight and prevent weed germination and growth.

Transplant seeds
Transplanting seeds instead of sowing them gives plants a healthy head start in defense against weeds.

Methods of removing weeds:

By hand
This method is most effective after a recent rain because the soil is loosened.

Thermal
A short blast of heat directly onto the weed causes it to wilt and die. This is most effective on driveways and paths and is not always ideal for gardens.

Hoeing
This is effective for larger patches of newly cleared ground.

7. Make sure you have earthworms

Earthworms are essential to a successful garden. Vermicompost, the combination of organic matter and earthworms' castings is a high-octane form of compost that provides the soil with an immediate all-purpose fertilizer loaded with nutrients and nitrogen. By tunneling through the earth, earthworms aerate the soil which improves the soil's access to air and drainage so that water reaches the deep roots of plants more easily. They also encourage beneficial soil bacteria while discouraging disease and predators such as crop destroying insects.

Don't have earthworms in your soil? Here is how to get them:

Discontinue use of any toxins in your garden.
Spread 2-3 inch layers of organic matter on top of the soil each year - this will attract earthworms
Use leafmould - this is a great earthworm meal.
Order earthworm eggs online. Once you receive them, scatter them onto the ground and in about 3 months they will be adults and ready to reproduce.

8. Keep a gardening journal

By keeping track of your garden's progress, you will be more prepared next year to tackle issues that came up this year. You will also have a place where you can jot down experiments, experiences: the good and the bad.

9. Protect against predators and pests:

Make your garden friendly to the native wildlife in your region. This will attract and encourage natural wildlife pest controllers to your garden. Ladybugs, birds, frogs, toads, and bats all help to keep pests such as aphids, insects, and snails in check.

Other beneficial garden predators and the pests they feed on:

Centipedes: feed on slugs and eggs

Preying mantis: feed on all types of insects

Spiders: feed on insects and arthropods

Lizards: feed on insects/pests

Frog/toads: feed on all types

Ladybugs: feed on aphids

To protect against pests:

Plant nectar producing plants
Tiny flowers on plants such as sweet alyssum will attract beneficial insects, such as predatory wasps. The alyssum's aroma will also scent your garden all summer. Herbs like parsley, dill, and fennel will attract ladybugs which will also eat intruding insects.

Choose native plant species over imported varieties whenever possible
Native species have better "immune systems" and will be able to fight against insects in your area better than an exotic plant will.

Try companion planting
Companion planting is growing two or more different types of species of plant together for the benefit of one or both. For example, by pairing a flower with a vegetable plant, many adult insects will visit flowers for pollen and nectar and in return are effective natural controllers of unwanted pests on the vegetable crops.

How does companion planting work?

Companions help each other grow:
Tall plants provide shade for shorter plants sensitive to sun.

Companions use garden space efficiently:
Vining plants cover the ground, upright plants grow up. Two plants in one patch.

Companions prevent pest problems:
Plants like onions repel some pests. Other plants can lure pests away from more desirable plants.

Companions attract beneficial insects:
Every successful garden needs plants that attract the predators of pests.

Examples of good companion plants:

Carrots and onions:
Pests attracted to carrots' sweet smell can be confused by the pungent smell of onions.

Corn and beans:
The beans attract beneficial insects that prey on corn pests such as leafhoppers and leaf beetles. In addition, the bean vines will climb up the corn stalks.

Cucumbers and nasturtiums:
Nasturtiums are said to repel cucumber beetles and can create a habitat for insects such as spiders and ground beetles which help defend the garden from destructive pests.

Radishes and spinach:
Radishes attract leafminers away from the spinach. The leafminers will damage the radish leaves, but since radishes grown underground, no damage is done to the radishes.

Cabbage and dill:
Cabbage can help support the floppy dill plants, while the dill attracts the tiny beneficial wasps that control cabbageworms and other cabbage pests.

Tomatoes and cabbage:
Tomatoes are repel diamondback moth larvae (caterpillars that chew large holes in cabbage leaves)

Cauliflower and dwarf zinnias:
The nectar from the dwarf zinnias lures ladybugs that help protect cauliflower plants.

Collards and catnip:
Planting catnip alongside collards can reduce flea-beetle damage on the collards.

Other ways to deter pests from your organic garden:

Create barriers and deterrents:
Try hanging shiny silver objects in your garden. The reflection produced from the sun can confuse insects such as aphids which orient their flight patterns by sunlight.

Rotate your crops each year
This will aid in keeping pest and disease problems at bay as well as correct nutritional deficiencies.

10. Last few tips on garden and soil care:

Avoid compacting soil by walking on it excessively
This restricts air movement and makes it hard for roots to penetrate.

Do not over dig
This will destroy vital soil structure.

Cover
Keeping plants covered with things like mulch helps protect soil structure.

Avoid overfeeding and over or under watering
Let the plants performance guide you.

I hope you will be able to share the same satisfaction and gratification I experience when I build, create, and tend to my own vegetable garden. Have patience, be willing to get dirty, and be ready to smile and reap the bountiful benefits of an organically grown vegetable and herb garden.

Enjoy!

In good health

Jennifer M. Regan, NASM-CPT, C.H.E.K HLC

Jennifer Regan is the founder and owner of Bamboo Core Fitness, a personal training and holistic lifestyle coaching business based in the Boston and Metrowest areas.

Jennifer holds a BS in Exercise Science and Minors in Health and Nutrition from Ithaca College, is a National Academy of Sports Medicine Certified Personal Trainer, and a C.H.E.K Holisitc Lifestyle Coach. In addition, she is a Cancer Wellness Specialist and holds certification in AED, CPR, and First Aid.

For more information on health, nutrition, and fitness topics, please visit her web site at: http://www.bamboocorefitness.com

Turning to organic gardening

Organic gardening is a method chemical-free gardening and eco-friendly. Organic gardening and conventional gardening differ on how to control pests and Nourish the soil. Conventional gardening uses chemical pesticides and chemical fertilizers while organic gardens using organic means to enrich the soil and organic fertilizers and weed killers.

Organic gardens follow natural practices that include:

Organic soil: Soil quality is the main component of creating a successful garden. Providing natural substances nutrition for the soil, you will be well on your way to the healthy growth of plants and vegetables. For an organic garden, it is essential to add natural additives such as organic fertilizer, manure, leaves chopped and toppings. Before adding natural compounds, you should do a test to determine whether the soil has any soil mineral deficiencies. To improve the quality of the soil, you can add a number of natural products that are rich in nutrients. Natural additives may include the organic fertilizer, fish emulsion and blood meal. If you don't have time to make your own natural feeding ground, there are many natural products available for purchase. These products that are rich in nutrients include flour, straw, and worm casts. Do worm compost is a great way to compost organic waste

Organic pest control: Each garden will attract pests that will eat some plants and vegetables. Conventional gardens use pesticides to control pests. These pesticides contain chemicals that are harmful to the environment, humans and animals. Attract or bugs that will eat pests like aphids of purchase will help reduce their numbers. Errors that kill aphids include errors of maiden, ladybugs and lacewings and more. There are also biological pest control products on the market. Leaf Sprays and also homemade tomato garlic will repel aphids.

Diversify your garden will help reduce pests. Strong smelling herbs planting will repel the plant eating insects. Birds and insects which feed on aphids are also drawn to a diverse and garden will reduce the pests that harm your plants. To control weeds, there are a number of products of biological control of weeds on the market. Weeding daily is the best way to control the infestation of weeds.

Crop rotation: To keep the soil rich and healthy, it is recommended that you rotate your crops. Crop rotation involves planting crops for which plants and vegetables are not grown in the same location every year. This will ensure that the soil does not lose its nutrients. Will also reduce the risk of illness. The nutrients left behind a set of plants can be used for another type of plant next year. The best way to rotate your crops is to draw a map of the garden that sets where each plant. You can then refer to it in the next year to make sure that you don't plant the same type of plant on the same site. Crop rotation and cultivation of several plants will help deter pests. The advantage of enriching your soil organically, using biological pest control and rotating your crops ensures a healthy garden. This method also attract bees that will result in pollination of plants.

The biggest difference between conventional and organic gardening is that organic gardens do not use chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Successful organic gardening it is possible to understand how to create productive organically rich and fertile soil that is, the type of plants that includes the plants suitable for the particular climate and season, and the implementation of organic maintenance practices.

Because of illnesses and diseases such as cancer that are now being linked to chemicals, fertilizers and pesticides, more people are turning to organic gardening. Development of an organic garden can seem a bit of hard work, but the reward of creating a healthy garden will be very rewarding.

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What really is organic gardening?

Organic gardening is to treat the own garden as a member of nature and the environment as a whole. As a literal description is gardening without the use of any type of man made chemicals. Many gardeners after making the switch to organic gardening are more in tune with nature. Organic gardening is not a new thing is really the way that our ancestors grew their food, but in recent years is gaining in popularity. With the new trend of everyone wanting to go green, organic gardening is back in the spot light. Organic gardeners realize that he is using no more than just man made chemicals, but the role they play in the environment.

The biggest reason that many to start an organic garden is because they know that they are producing the best quality products possible. Most organic gardeners agree that fruits and vegetables are great, but the benefits to the planet also became important to them. Many gardeners find that becomes a wonderful hobby for you. Organic gardening is the oldest method of gardening books and is actually cheaper than grow with chemicals. Organic gardening is the best way to have living organisms and breaking them to the best value to the environment.

Organic gardening uses compost and natural fertilizers to grow the plants you garden. Using these natural sources, you won't have to expose your plants of chemicals that can be harmful to your plants. There are a few extras that may be necessary, but all organic gardeners are rewarded knowing that will never have to use any harmful chemicals. The more you grow without chemicals, the stronger your soil develops and provides the best environment for your plants to grow.

Organic gardening teaches us about how we can balance our plants in soil, water and nutrients to be taken into consideration. By being green you take into account that you will not use synthetic fertilizers in your plants. Becomes a fixation on how to work with the planet to build a sound basis for your garden. With organic gardening that is using all elements of nature, even other plants and insects, to enrich your garden.

Once you consider taking the organic gardening task you will soon learn what is the best way to grow your own fruit and vegetables. Your garden will enjoy being in a natural state. The great thing about organic gardening is that it is not difficult at all. When you start your outdoor garden this year take a step back and try to grow organically. You will be glad you did when you see the final result

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Dirty, Rotten, Filthy - Organic Gardening Fertilizer - The Truth, Volume 2

Mystery Solved - What Goes Into Your Organic Gardening Compost

Hello my wonderful gardening chums, it's your, "Organic Gardening Enthusiast." I know you're shaking your head and saying how can we possibly do only 3 articles concerning organic gardening fertilizer? It is a stretch my dear organic gardening aficionado. But we will march forward and be brave. As our wonderful spouse, Melvin would say, "Organic gardening compost is the life's blood of any truly worthy organic vegetable garden."

So on with the show. In our last article we left you with the very cogent question of, what can you include in your compost? Is it permissible to add 'anything?' And you my dear organic gardening buddy know very well that the answer to that is a resounding and absolute, No.

Let's examine exactly what we can add to our compost. In fact let us talk about kitchen scraps for a few moments at this time. Some would say that it's permissible to add anything that comes out of your kitchen. Au contraire my dear friend. That is a total misconception and dangerous misstatement. Please stop and think about this for a minute, even as an organic gardening neophyte you know very well that we never, ever add any type of meat, bones or oils to our organic gardening compost. Nor do we add anything with those as ingredients. You also know very well that anything that grew and came out of the ground can be added back to the ground and our organic gardening fertilizer.

As an aside you may notice that your correspondent does not ever refer to our organic gardening compost as a "compost pile." Don't you agree that the word 'pile' is so very, well it's not a nice word. Compost Pile has such a negative connotation and we do so much want to keep this on the positive side of gardening.

You also know very well that coffee grounds, eggshells and even newspaper are welcome additions to our organic gardening fertilizer, as long as they have been pre-prepared. Ah ha, you say, what do we mean by pre-prepared? Your faithful correspondent has always reminded you that pre-preparing some of the more esoteric items that go into our organic gardening compost must first be put through the food processor. We're not picky about which food processor you prefer to use. It is, though absolutely critical that these, "hard to digest" items be rendered into extremely fine bits so that our digesting friends in the organic gardening compost will be able to make use of them quickly. Melvin is fond of saying, "Grind them up so, the little beasties can chew them up." Our Mr. Potts has such a way with words.

The next point that you're faithful organic gardening correspondent and her trusty sidekick, Melvin, "Mr. Organic Gardening Compost Man," would like to make is that some people, and we won't name names, advocate using horse and cow manure. On the surface, and we don't mean the surface of the manure, this would seem to be an excellent idea. Hold your horses (pun intended). Let's stop and think about this for just una memento, one moment. Horses and cows, being the wonderful animals that they are, eat whatever plant and vegetation material is lower than their knees. Very often that vegetation consists of weeds. And you all know how your organic garden enthusiast feels about the dreaded W word, weeds are the enemy.

More often than you could possibly comprehend the digestion system of these wonderful equine and bovine animals is unable to digest the seeds of these pernicious and disgusting weeds. What comes out the other end of these great animals, is to say the least truly remarkable, but it is also very possible that these weed seeds are still viable and able to not only sprout and grow but multiply and make our life miserable, and our organic vegetable garden a true fright. For that reason your faithful correspondent most emphatically and strongly suggests that we not use equine and bovine manure. In other words, no horse poo poo, no cow poo poo because all you're doing is planting weed seeds in your extraordinary and delightful organic vegetable garden.

Well, all right then this is been another delightful excursion into the wonderful world of organic gardening fertilizer. Our spouse Melvin just loves compost, and yours truly, of course. In our next article, Volume 3, we will look at one of the singular and most important issues concerning organic gardening compost, moisture levels.

(Note gentle reader that if you perchance missed Vol.1 of this series of articles you must search using the title of this article and substitute the number 1 for the number 2. We do so hope that you will avail yourself of this series in the proper order.)

Until next time I wish you, "Happy Gardening." Your faithful servant and gardening buddy.

If you would like a FREE copy of the wonderful book The Complete Guide to Organic Vegetable Gardening, please go to my Blog it's an Org, The Beatrix Potts Blog. The Blog is primarily about Organic Gardening Fertilizer - Compost. As Mr. Melvin Potts, wonderful spouse and "Mr. Organic Gardening Compost Man" would say, the Life's Blood of the Organic Vegetable Garden.

What is organic gardening?

In fact, what is organic gardening? Chemically, the organic matter is matter with carbon atoms in it-of course materials. The term "synthetic" refers to any material that is produced in a laboratory instead of a living thing. "Organic gardening" means, literally, not using synthetically produced items in the garden. The USDA has specific definitions for organic products, grown commercially, but there is no definition of "organic" for home gardeners. The whole issue is quite obscure-with many people saying that "industrially produced" organic foods are no healthier for the environment than other commercially produced items.

In the heart of the organic gardening movement and the philosophy behind organic gardens is seeing the garden as just another isolated plot of land, but rather a part of a larger ecosystem. A garden is part of a larger ecosystem, if the gardener sees it that way, or not. You could say that a garden that is organically care is more in harmony with the rest of your surroundings. Entries are carefully considered, not only by its effects on the plant of destination or pests, but about the environment as a whole.

Gardening naturally

As author and professor Jeff Gillman writes in his book well received again the truth about organic gardening, the term "gardening naturally" is more descriptive than the term "organic gardening." Gardening naturally describes actions taken to help a garden exists in equilibrium with the ecosystem around the garden. Organic gardening and gardening naturally begins with the soil. The soil is the most important part of successful gardening. Organic gardeners spend a lot of time adding organic matter – compost, shredded leaves, grass trimmings, mulches-to the soil, which improves the soil structure, soil fertility and adds the microorganisms beneficial to soil. Many of the synthetic entries that use the conventional gardener are necessary because the soil has not been powered and is devoid of nutrients.

Is the soil and more

The soil is the beginning of a large garden. The soil is a combination of organic matter, minerals, air, moisture, micro-organisms (fungi and bacteria) and macro organisms (worms, insects). Many types of organisms have one or more parts of their life cycle in the soil. Use natural gardening methods will encourage its soil life to stay healthy. Remember-there are beneficial insects and harmful insects. Apply a blanket treatment for insect control or control of bacteria, not only controls harmful insects it also controls beneficial insects. Left alone, many insects and bacterial populations will stabilize. again, the idea of balance comes into play. If the soil is in good condition, with a proper pH, nutrient balance and a healthy population of beneficial microorganisms and macro organisms, plants on the surface will be healthy, too. It is interesting to note that if you are starting to garden organically and its soil is very depleted, you may need to humic acid bacteria inoculate or beneficial to restore the balance.

Plants get stressed, very

Experience stress, plants as well as animals experience stress. The organic gardening is to reduce plant stress naturally, without the need of synthetic inputs. Will be stressed plants that are not getting enough water, nutrients, or are not planted in the right place. They produce weak growth, which is more susceptible to diseases and pest problems.

Imitating the Natural World

A garden is, by definition, a place of cultivation. This is what sets it apart from natural occurrence of ecosystems, which are better able to maintain balance. Elementary students learn about "succession", in the wild and the process of reaching a mature "climax Community". Climax communities can change with climate change, or the introduction of invasive species, but for the most part, they are stable. Part of what allows these ecological communities remain stable is the fact that they have a wide variety of species that work well with each other-trees, shrubs, herbaceous plants, fungi, bacteria, insects, mammals and birds. Modern conventional agriculture and organic Industrial-is based on the efficiency of a monoculture-hectares and hectares of the same types of plants together. Therefore, when a plague or disease strikes, the whole field succumbs.

In contrast, gardening, especially on a small scale, allows the gardener to do what he or she can to recreate a functional ecosystem. There are always bound to be pest problems, but field rotation, inter-cropping, the liberal use of fertilizer and garden strategic planning goes a long way to establish a more balanced system. Planting nitrogen-fixing plants such as legumes, next to plants that require high amounts of nitrogen as corn or tomatoes creates a relationship, but functional. Alternating onion family plants with plants of the cabbage family can help to confuse insects.

Organic gardening is a State of mind and a practice

The term "organic" doesn't necessarily mean "safe". There are natural compounds that are as or more dangerous than synthetically produced chemicals. Organic gardening is more than a philosophy that, when enacted, allows a gardener to produce food and flowers with a lower impact on the Earth.

Casey Coke is a Marketing Manager for natural environmental systems, LLC, a global provider of soil changes and humic acids .

Organic Gardening Fertilizer - Compost - Danger in the Vegetable Garden Volume 1

The Pit Controversy

Hello my wonderful gardening chums, it's Beatrix Potts your, "Organic Gardening Maven." First a word or two about our title. When you are given inaccurate and even false information about organic gardening fertilizer your organic vegetable garden may be in terrible danger. Bad information is just as dangerous as cutworms. We are here to set the record straight and give you the most reliable information available.

So, on with the show. Beatrix is here to tell you that organic fertilizer, a.k.a. organic gardening compost is the life's blood of your organic vegetable garden. Organic gardening is incomplete without organic gardening compost. This is not just an essential element of organic vegetable gardening it is probably the singular most important element. And it is the element that you can produce and control.

Understanding organic garden fertilizer will allow you to understand how important the plant's life is and it will help the soil, insects, and everything that our wonderful vegetables need to grow and thrive.

Many of my gardening aficionados have written to me and asked, "Beatrix, what can I put into my compost?" My dear, the answer is quite simple, twigs, leaves, eggshells, formerly fresh fruit, teabags, and you always want a good mix of "Greens and Browns." Mr. Melvin Potts, our wonderful spouse and "Mr. Organic Gardening Compost Man," has reminded yours truly to give a plug for the often neglected "Browns." They are defined as plant matter that was formerly green and has dried and become desiccated and is now as its name implies, Brown. Dried leaves, plants, and dried grass clippings are excellent sources of brown material for your organic vegetable garden.

Please remember our 1st Rule, anything that comes out of the ground can go back into your compost and eventually back into the ground. And you know of course to never add meat, bones or items with oils, and never ever do we include dog or cat feces.

All of these things will be consumed by microorganisms, insects, nematodes and what Beatrix likes to refer to as the 'most uncommon earthworm.' These are the beasties that inhabit your organic compost and they will voraciously consume the vegetable matter and turn it into the nutrients that our plants need to grow. We always refer to the worms in our garden as, 'most uncommon.' You see my dears the earthworms in our garden are the epitome, the most wonderful of organic gardening compost machines, and for that reason we refer to them as being 'most uncommon.'

Some would have you believe that compost requires a pit. Beatrix is here to tell you that a "pit" is not entirely necessary. All you need is a flat space of ground where you can put all of your compost materials, this space needs to be where you can provide water, turn the compost and provide a most essential ingredient, air. You will then eventually put your compost through a screen to get rid of any sticks or extraneous matter.

It is an absolute fallacy that you need to dig a deep hole for your organic compost. You don't need some kind of a "pit" to begin the exciting adventure that is making organic gardening compost. What you need is simply a small flat piece of ground to put your compost material on top of. This is probably the singular and most efficient way to begin making organic garden fertilizer, the organic compost that is going to make your vegetable garden thrive and be absolutely wonderful.

Well, your faithful servant and gardening buddy, Beatrix Potter the "Organic Gardening Maven" has, unfortunately run out of space, much to your chagrin. In the next volume of, "Danger in the Vegetable Garden" we will be taking a look at, "Garden Tools-Dangerous Instruments that Maim or a Gardener's Best Friend?"

Until next time I wish you, "Happy Gardening." Your faithful servant and gardening buddy, Beatrix Potts.

After-Bloom Amaryllis care

I have received an amaryllis as a gift and it was spectacular. Do now what? If I keep the bulb, it will bloom again?

blog-doug An amaryllis is a rewarding winter plant because, as Narcissus paperwhite, can go dormant bulb to full bloom in a matter of weeks. But unlike daffodils, not worth saving once they are in flower, amaryllis bulb is a long-term investment that will bloom each winter, if you know how to keep happy.

It is a common mistake to cut long sheets, strips that emerge with the stem of the flower. Those leaves are absolutely necessary; through photosynthesis, capturing the solar energy that goes to flower next year. When he did bloom, put the amaryllis in pots in a warm, sunny window and water it regularly to foster more leafy growth. Give him some other water-soluble fertilizer or fish emulsion every two weeks. When the weather heats up and nights remain constantly above 50 ° F, move the pot outdoors, leaving the leaves gradually acclimate to direct sunlight. Power and irrigation to encourage lush growth; We entered the best.

Around labor day, stop watering and feeding your amaryllis and let go dormant bulb. Some gardeners turn the pot on its side to make sure that the soil dries completely. Once the leaves have wrinkled, move the inner pot and keep it dry for at least 10 weeks, or if you are ready to wake up the bulb and start again the cycle of bloom. Above the ground with a half-inch more or less than composite or cool mix of padded, water well and move away! : Doug Hall

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How to Grow a Successful Organic Garden

Na face do aprender como cultivar um jardim orgânico é realmente muito fácil. A regra básica é se certificar de que você use produtos orgânicos de 100%. Estes são produtos químicos e pesticidas grátis.

A maioria de nós já tentou crescer um jardim em um ponto ou outro e você provavelmente já tinha misturado o sucesso. Se é m = agora trabalhar fora você muitos querem testar primeiro o solo para determinar como saudável é e o que é equilíbrio é. Você deve tomar uma amostra de solo onde você pretende plantar sua horta orgânica. Você vai querer encontrar o solo melhor possível plantar sua horta orgânica.

Todo mundo tem razões diferentes para o cultivo de um jardim, especialmente uma horta orgânica. Talvez você queira completar sua família com a comida que você crescer você mesmo porque o alimento orgânico da loja é muito caro. Ou, talvez você vive em um lugar remoto e difícil conseguir acesso a bons produtos, assim é mais fácil para você crescer um jardim orgânico. Ou talvez seja apenas para diversão! É realmente muito gratificante crescer e comer seus próprios vegetais orgânicos.

O que quer que sua razão pode ser, uma horta orgânica é a melhor maneira para você ir. Mas, você pode estar se perguntando, como cultivar um jardim orgânico e tirar o melhor dele? É claro que o tipo de jardim que você escolher para plantar é inteiramente até você, mas você deve planejar seu jardim da mesma.

Fazer o seu jardim orgânico um sucesso

Há realmente muitas maneiras para cultivar um jardim orgânico. A única coisa que torna um jardim orgânico é que absolutamente nenhum produto químico pode ser usado quando se trata de crescer o alimento. Você tem que usar apenas produtos naturais, e isso inclui fertilizantes e bug repelente também. Com a popularidade crescente de produtos orgânicos, é fácil encontrar fertilizantes orgânicos e repelente em sua loja local do viveiro ou planta.

Uma das melhores coisas que você pode antes de crescer um jardim orgânico é certificar-se de que você tem feito a sua investigação. Primeiro, você deve determinar o tipo de ambiente que você vive e o que as coisas que você vai ter que proteger seu jardim contra. Em seguida, você precisará saber quais produtos que você pode usar para crescer um jardim orgânico e a diferença na variedade e disponibilidade de produtos todo-naturais. Finalmente, você deve descobrir quais produtos crescem melhores para o seu clima e especialmente em seu solo. Se você tem o solo pobre, você ainda pode crescer bom produto em caixas do plantador, onde você tem mais controle sobre o ambiente crescente.

Tempo para plantar seu jardim orgânico

Uma vez você determinou as coisas que você precisa estar ciente de, e você descobriu que você pode fazer para impedir a ter todos os problemas de seu jardim, você está pronto para começar. Basta escolha os alimentos que deseja crescer e certifique-se de que você está plantando-los corretamente. Siga todas as instruções que veio com a planta, incluindo a sua exposição à luz solar, quão profundo deve ser plantado e quanto espaço ele precisa para crescer.

Você deve escolher um lugar para planta onde você nunca usou produtos químicos, como produtos químicos permanecem no solo por um longo tempo. Talvez seja necessário para que você possa trazer o solo superior para usar, especialmente em solos pobres ou áreas de solo de argila.

Cuidar de seu jardim orgânico

Manutenção regular é necessária para os melhores resultados. Seguindo as instruções para suas plantas e descobrir como cuidar deles são coisas boas para fazer. Aprender a cuidar de uma horta orgânica é muito importante. Há muitos recursos disponíveis na internet, bem como sua loja local para ajudá-lo.

Você deve eliminar o seu jardim sempre que as ervas daninhas aparecem. Isto irá manter a erva daninha para baixo, reduzir (ou eliminar), a necessidade de herbicida e ajuda as plantas a crescer no seu melhor. Molhar regular também é necessário e adubação orgânica regular ajudará suas plantas crescer grande e forte.

Também você deve proteger a horta orgânica da gerência offs e de outros produtos químicos que podem ser usados nas proximidades. Depois de ter feito isso, você pode se sentir seguro no fato de que você está fazendo sua parte para ajudar não só o ambiente, mas sua saúde também.

Aprender a cultivar um jardim orgânico é fácil, com algumas dicas que seu jardim florescerá em nenhum momento!

Mary Amos gosta de jardim e é abençoada com os dedos verdes. Dê uma olhada no jardim orgânico | Vegetais orgânicos [http://www.gardenswebsite.com] para tirar o máximo do seu jardim. Visite também o Home Improvement | Home DIY para idéias de melhoria home

How to make an organic garden

Each spring, the North or south hemisphere, many people begin to think about gardening. Some have been gardening all year since they were old enough to help the family garden behind the House. Others have started gardening only recently. Most have doubts, however.

How to make an organic garden is a question that comes up more often these days, people become more concerned with health issues. They want to know that the products that they are eating are good for your health and safe for their families to eat. They want to start an organic garden.

Many books have been written abo
ut how to make an organic garden and we cannot compete with them in an article, but we offer here 7 basic steps for beginners.

How to make an organic garden-step # 1

Get your organic garden by its resistance zone of learning plans. You will need to know your climate, and that organic produce will grow best there. If you live in the United States, you can access the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map in many gardening websites or websites of seed. Planting directions on seed packages are based on the average last frost date. The last frost date for your area will be the last day of Spring, when you can have a killing frost.

How to make an organic garden-step # 2

Once you have determined your local climate, it's time to choose a location on your property for your organic garden. The area more convenient to your back door may not be the best for an organic garden. Look for a site that never has standing water. Your plants need good soil drainage. Verify that the plants will be protected from wind. Your organic garden will be near the water so you can easily take care of it?

How to make an organic garden-step # 3

Then you need to test the soil of your garden. In the USA, check online for your agricultural extension service of home/county or State. They will guide you in collecting soil samples from different areas of the site that you chose for your organic garden. Make sure that you label each soil sample as part of the garden and send it to be parsed. This analysis will help you know what to add to the soil to a great harvest. Remember, one of the basic things you will do in your organic garden to feed the soil so that the soil can feed the plants.

How to make an organic garden-step # 4

organic gardening Order seeds, using information about the climate and soil. Make sure you order organic certified seeds so you can have an authentic organic garden. A good power supply online seed is the Main Street seed and supply. You can buy a teaspoon of seeds from a small organic garden, or pounds of organic seeds for agriculture. When ordering seeds, make sure you include onions, garlic and marigold flowers. These plants can be a first line of defense in the pest control program in an organic garden.

How to make an organic garden-step # 5

While you wait for your seeds arrive, you need to prepare the garden bed. If there is no grass growing on the site, removed it first. Use a sharp, flat-edged spade to slice out the sod. Shake off as much soil as possible and remove the grass. Till the soil to a depth of about 12 "and the work in organic fertilizer, checking your soil analysis to find out what changes are needed.

How to make an organic garden-step # 6

If you have organic seedlings for planting, watering well the day before you plan to plant them in the organic garden. The best time to set them in the garden is a cloudy day, yet. If you must plant on a sunny day, be careful not to stress the plants more than necessary. Use pots of seedlings to determine how deep to plant them.

If you are planting seeds in your organic garden, follow the instructions that come with each type of seed.

How to make an organic garden-step # 7

Apply organic mulch after planting. Mulch conserves water cools the soil and keep weeds at Bay. If you use chipped bark compost, grated rind, chopped leaves, shreds, or straw, his straw will also improve the quality of the soil in your organic garden. Apply 2 to 4 inches of mulch, being careful not to get too close to the plant. The mulch can rot the stems. You can also become a hiding place for small garden rats nibbling.

Organic garden Tip:

Label your lines of plant and keep a record of the progress of your garden. Save seed information for everything in your organic garden. A garden diary, with photos throughout the gardening season, will help you know what you want to retry or change in the organic garden next year.

© 2007, Anna Hart. Anna Hart invites you to read more of his articles on organic gardens in http://www.organicspringtime.com Anna is posting new articles every week on this site, each dealing with some aspect of organic gardening. If you want to know how to make your own organic fertilizer, you will want to read Anna's article on the subject.

Organic gardening-lecture for teachers

Organic gardening has become an increasingly important part of the curriculum in schools throughout the world. Teachers in all grade levels are teach her students and sometimes being called on to give a speech to a group of parents. As a career educator and principal, I know the difficulty to open the preparation time of speech and offer this speech organic gardening for your use. Feel free to edit it to suit your needs.

Speech of organic gardening

How selfish are you? On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the highest, how would you rate the same selfish? If you are a little selfish, you might be interested in organic gardening.

Organic gardening is a may seem more appropriate, from a home economics teacher, but I'm just selfish enough that I love organic gardening. I want to share this love with you and with your children.

Imagine

I want you to come with me, in imagination, a time and place before the Industrial Revolution. The year is from 1707. It is the end of the summer. We are in walking the streets of a small town. Houses are well spaced for privacy. Land stretches behind each House. As we look, we realize that much of what the Earth is taken over by gardens. Here and there, we see adults and children actively involved in gardening. The plants are beautiful.

You call one of the adults and what they use to make the garden as lush. A broad smile and breaks through the smile, come the words, "feed the soil and the soil will feed the plants.

You shake your head. Poor people. Too bad they don't know about this miracle combination of chemicals that you saw advertised on TV last week. This is the easy way to grow plants spectacular!

Dinner

The organic gardener invites us to join them for the evening meal, and we accept. At dinner, join in prayer of thanks, and then watch in amazement as children, one after another, start eating fresh vegetables.

Yourself is not what they like vegetables, but politely take a small portion of each. You bite into a piece of steamed cabbage, and open eyes in amazement. Is twice as sweet as cabbage that you buy in your local market-sweet! You watch a small child fill your mouth with dark green cabbage and cringe. There is a small vegetable spoon nasty in its own dish and you choose it, putting a small sheet in your mouth. Amazing! Too, is twice as sweet as any cabbage that you have ever eaten. The same seems true of each vegetable on the table. You decide that, if your supermarket vegetables in this good, you would eat more of them.

Our imaginary trip ends this dining table, and we return to the present.

Benefits of organic gardening

Organic gardening has many benefits. If you are completely selfish, you will want these benefits for yourself. If you're generous, you will want these benefits to your family. Let me give you just three of the benefits of organic gardening.

1. Taste: organic gardening has been proven to produce the tastiest fruits and vegetables. A Hong Kong study measured levels of Brix, the percentage of sugar in vegetable juice, using organic gardening products and non-organic gardening. The results showed that organic gardening produced products that was 2 to 4 times sweet produced by non-organic gardening. Fresh fruits and vegetables are tastier and easier to eat, if you are a young person or an adult. Organic gardening help it eat better, providing fruits and vegetables more flavorful.

2. Nutrition: organic gardening has also been found to provide nutritionally superior products. Virginia Worthington, Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, in comparison with the composition of vegetables grown simultaneously in different conditions of agriculture. His work included studies with 1,240 41 35 comparisons vitamins and minerals. Worthington found that organic gardening produced vegetables and fruits that were superior in most minerals and vitamins to non-organic gardening. Not only that, organic gardening products was lower in potentially harmful nitrates, which are the result of nitrogen fertilizers. Dr. Worthington concluded that organic gardening products are nutritionally superior. You and your family will enjoy better health with fruits and vegetables organic gardening. (Effect of farming methods on nutritional quality: A comparison of organic with conventional crops, Virginia Worthington MS, ScD, CNS, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1998, alternative therapies, Volume 4, 1998, pp. 58-69)

3. exercise: Finally, organic gardening offers you and your children regular daily exercise outdoors. Organic gardening helps build muscle, the particularly important core muscles. Organic gardening you get in sunlight, where you can absorb essential vitamin d. organic gardening is a great stress management tool. Organic gardening gives you an outlet for creativity. It provides satisfaction as you see his work produce vegetables, herbs and fruit.

We could talk about the aesthetic pleasures of organic gardening-how beautiful this garden can become. We could talk about how you can save money with organic gardening-growing your product instead of buying.

Finally, we could talk about how important it is for our children to learn about organic gardening, to embrace it as the path to better health and to practice it with the school, home and community gardens.

A speech by organic gardening could go on for hours, but I'll stop here, hoping I have whetted your interest enough that you will find more information about organic gardening.

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Some great bowls of beautiful organic products can be set on or around the room to help organic gardening Visual images.

© 2007, Anna Hart. Anna Hart invites you to read more of his articles on organic gardening in http://www.organicspringtime.com. Anna is posting new articles regularly on the site, each dealing with some aspect of organic gardening. If you would like to get tips on organic gardening, you will want to read the article Anna with tips for the beginner.

How to Start an Organic Garden - Only 4 Simple Yet Important Steps

That's what many people asked. If you are one of them. Here's an advice; think simple and not complicated. This article will show you the 4 simple Steps to starting your beautiful organic garden. Basically on "How To Start An Organic Garden".

Step #1: Planning Your Organic Garden

Planning Your Organic Garden is the most important step to start an organic garden and many people simply overlooked this one. If you don't plan well, you will end up doing a lot of unnecessary stuffs. Always plan ahead.

During your planning, you must choose a location. Some guidelines in choosing a good location for your organic garden includes:

Having 6 hours of direct sunlight
Good soil drainage
Good air circulation
Not too much strong winds

Next, you must plan what crops you want to plan and then follow that plan out, dutifully.

Step #2: Getting the Soil Ready

As an organic gardener, your soil is crucial to your success. Thus, you must test your soil with a home test kit to make sure it hits a pH value of 6.8.

Ensure your pile is fertile by adding a little compost for more nutrients. Only after your soil has reached a pH value of 6.8 and the fertile stage, then you can proceed to planting your plants. Otherwise, they will not receive the best treatment it can get.

As you are testing and clearing the soil, always check to see if there are weeds. If there are, remove them or otherwise, once it grows, you are gonna have a hard time removing them.

Step #3: Plant Your plants

Most people would save time and buy grown plants from gardening centers and transfer to organic garden. This might not be safe as you would not know what sort of chemical fertilizers had they used. Other methods includes planting your plants indoors and growing your seeds directly in your organic garden.

It all depends on individual preference but I would recommend growing it indoors first and then transfer to your organic garden. That way, you can save time, monitor your plants perfectly and transfer to the organic garden only when it is time.

Step #4: Controlling and Maintaining Your Garden

Here comes the most important Step that many will give up at this Step. Why? Simply because they can't control their organic garden and it turns out to be a complete mess.

Firstly, you got to know and develop recipes to keep pests off your garden. Secondly, you must encourage beneficial bugs and animals into your organic garden. They will do most of the work of annihilating the pests for you. Of course, you still have to do most of the work, managing your organic garden.

Thirdly, many people find weeds a complete irritant. Many in fact, given up because their entire organic garden turned into an "organic weed garden". Always minimize the weed growth right from the start. Otherwise, it will become disastrous.

These are the 4 simple steps that you can apply to start your organic garden. Always remember that the key to your organic success is your soil. Treat it well and they will serve you well.

Aaron Dopko is a self-confessed organic gardening addict and pest control freak. Recently, he went crazy, revealing his proven Step-By-Step blueprint to start an organic garden In fact, he even shows how he maintain his organic garden, keeping his garden 95% pest free. Aaron's FREE organic gardening package is jammed packed with costless organic gardening tips on how you too, can start your own beautiful organic garden within weeks! Visit: http://www.FastOrganicGardening.com/

Organic garden-tips and useful ideas

Organic gardening is growing in popularity, people increasingly see the need to avoid chemicals and synthetics. Organic gardens also provide protection of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the garden.

Those who occupy the organic gardening often are at a loss as to where to buy supplies. They don't know what they need for soil nutrition or product pest control. They may not know the amount of water to supply, or how to go about composting kitchen scraps for their gardens. They need some more organic garden tips and ideas.

Tips and useful organic garden ideas are widely available if you know where to find them. Here are some places to start your search.

Useful ideas of organic garden

One of my favorite organic garden tips is a gift. The most important thing you can do to control pests in organic garden is to keep the soil healthy. Healthy soil produces healthy plants. Healthy plants, as healthy humans, are better able to resist disease.

A working organic garden second idea, that I like is to control pests with ladybirds (ladybugs). These beautiful little buggers black stained bright red control aphids naturally and fully. You can order various organic garden places on the Internet. Until they arrive, spray all parts of aphid infested plants with soapy water and diluted. Rinse with clean water.

My third favorite organic gardening idea is to plant guardian plants around and between the soft vegetables. Marigolds and colored organic garden border away from many pests. Onion and garlic are also major impediments to pests that like to come in and steal organic produce.

Sources for organic garden more useful ideas

We do not give here the specific sites, but most of these groups or products can be easily located on the Internet. Just use keywords in any of these categories in your search engine to find more organic garden ideas.

Cooperative Extension Office: the cooperative extension system is a nationwide network. Each State of the United States and the territory has a State Office in your University. They also have a network of regional or local offices. The staff of these offices includes at least one specialist who can give you useful, research-based practices and useful organic garden ideas.

* Park and recreation departments: If you live in a great neighborhood, your local park and Recreation Department is going to be a good source of useful ideas for your organic garden. Classes may be available on topics such as organic garden plans, planting the seed and as fertilizer.

* YMCA/YWCA: in some areas, these organizations offer workshops on organic garden themes, with many useful tips and ideas. These are conducted by local experts of organic garden. May include organic gardens and organic gardening.

* Gardening shops: a growing number of gardening stores are beginning to offer organic garden products, seeds and supplies. Many try to have at least one person on staff who can give you useful ideas of organic garden.

* Local nurseries: Nurseries may have useful ideas and tips for your organic garden. As the demand gets bigger, they are learning that they must provide not only organic fertilizer and seedlings, but also advice.

* Magazines: organic gardening Magazines have been around for many years now and are full of useful tips and ideas of organic gardeners. Visit your public library and flip through the magazines. Some are meant to organic gardens of Agriculture of small size. Others focus on organic gardening of vegetables to the family or the farmers ' market. Choose one that has the most useful tips for you and enroll in course helps organic garden.

* Seeds of catalogs (catalogs): often, the seed catalogs have not only organic seeds, but also of ideas and tips for the organic garden. Search catalogs of major seed companies.

* Books: If you are new to organic gardening, you will want to invest in at least one good book on organic gardens. Books can explain how seeds and products are certified organic. They can provide advice for organic gardening ants to weed control.

* Family and friends: they say that we all have a circle of 250 known. Within that circle, you will probably find at least one person who has experience in organic gardening and have ideas or tips that will help you. Your own organic garden can be just a container, or it could be 50 containers. Who does any organic gardening will be eager to share the tips and useful ideas that received.

Internet: the Internet excels in providing information. Is a wonderful source of tips and useful ideas of organic garden. Become a member of an organic gardening Forum and share ideas. Read blogs by organic gardeners. Finally, visit the organic garden at Cornell University. They offer an online class in organic gardening. The teacher is sure to have useful tips and ideas of organic gardening.

© 2007, Anna Hart. Anna Hart invites you to read more of his articles on organic gardeners of useful ideas and tips at http://www.organicspringtime.com. Anna is posting new articles regularly on the site. If you want to know how to make compost for your own organic fertilizer, you'll want to read the article by Anna s on the subject.

Organic gardening Gifts Online

Organic gardening gifts online are abundant and, with a little imagination, can be found in highly unlikely places. You can, of course, give organically grown flowers-a bunch of roses or a bouquet of wildflowers. You can give a living plant, and displayed in a natural basket. You can even give a gift organic tea.

Organic gardening gifts online does not stop there, however. Growing popularity of organic gardening, also grows the number of gifts for the gardener.

Organic Gardening Tools

Organic gardening calls for chemical gardening tools do not. Anyone doing organic gardening will enjoy receiving unique tools. For example:

1. Compound container: small-scale organic gardening does not require a large compost pile. A compost container, made of recycled plastic, can recycle kitchen waste into organic fertilizer, without a well of compost or stack.

2. Worm factory: this gift of organic gardening is another effective way to compost. Just put the worms, their bedding and some food scraps in the bin on worm factory. The stack of other boxes at the top, with more leftover food in each. As the worms finish their meal on the first floor, they move up to get more food. Their carcasses in the bottom tray, an excellent organic fertilizer, can be harvested. A handy tap in the bottom tray drains out compost tea.

3. Compound crank: If your gardener uses a compost pile or pit, a crank of fertilizer makes a good organic gardening gift. He or she simply will have to crank the corkscrew on the stack and pull air stack.

Eco organic gardening tools

Online organic gardening gifts also include some tools that are ecologically. Think about mowing the lawn with a push to reduce pollution. While pushing, lawn aerator sidewalks to keep the lawn aerated so that nutrition and water down where the roots can use them. Someone who is "in" organic gardening will also appreciate a root irrigator of tree and shrub. Saves water and organic fruit trees and shrubs certainly receive deep watering.

Organic ergonomic Gardening Tools

Organic gardening requires more work than the chemical gardening. Ergonomic tools will be appreciated by an organic gardener. Ergonomic toolsets with a convenient canvas bag can be found in many online gardening supply stores.

We found a unique gift of organic gardening online-an ergonomic gardening tool called a removable ergonomic gardening tool set. An identifier can be used with all the tools in the set.

A gardening stool wearable leaves his organic gardening friend to rest feet and back to the garden. Even with his hands full, stools are always available.

Organic gardening seeds or seedlings

Organic gardening gifts online include organic seeds or seedlings, too. A Home Garden window set kit we've seen would be a great gift for an organic gardener. Each set has four cans window garden, with everything you need to grow organic seedlings in a window sill. Add water and sunlight and transplant the plants when they are large enough.

Any seeds or seedlings organic would be a good organic gardening gift. Herbs are always nice-fragrant and useful.

Organic gardening books

A book or two on organic gardening are a good idea, especially for beginners. Find a beautiful and informative book, and its organic gardener will spend happy hours of reading.

Correspondence of organic vegetables

A present continuous of organic vegetables by correspondence is also good. Find one of the online sites of Organics that ship via next day in United States

Just for love

Organic gardening gift, that we find online would be fun to give, especially for someone you love. The message "amazing" comes in its own planter, ready to grow. The receiver cover, plant water and places it in a sunny spot. As it grows, the plant reveals the message "I love you" on their leaves.

Can't decide what to buy

Can be difficult to choose just the right organic gardening gift. Everyone has their own likes and dislikes. If you can't decide what to buy, check online retailers providing gardening gift certificates. You can often get them in denominations of $ 25 or $ 50. Order one or more and put them in a nice organic gardener's card.

© 2007, Anna Hart. Anna Hart invites you to read more of his articles on organic gardening in http://www.organicspringtime.com. Anna is posting new articles regularly on the site, each article dealing with some aspect of organic gardening. If you want information about location of organic vegetables by correspondence, you won t want to miss Anna's article on the subject.