Organic Gardening Tips

Living green and organic gardening go hand-in-hand. If you are lucky enough to have your own garden, then you will enjoy turning it into your own eco-haven.

Organic gardening is the healthiest and most environmentally- friendly way to grow flowers, fruits and vegetables. When you eat your own homegrown fruits and vegetables, you are eating whole foods free from pesticides, herbicides and chemical fertilizers.   Your soils will be clear of toxins with a healthy supply of earthworms to nourish the soil. Bees, too, will be able to pollinate the flowers in your garden completely safely.

Here are a few organic gardening tips to get started.

• Practice plant rotation.  Different vegetables and fruits absorb different nutrients from the soil.  If you plant tomatoes in the same spot every year,  they’ll eventually deplete the soil of the nutrients they need to thrive. If, on the other hand, you rotate your garden and plant flowers where you last planted vegetables and veggies where you planted flowers, you will get a much better result. Simply rotating where you plant different varieties of vegetable in your vegetable garden each season will also result in healthier and tastier produce.  As an added bonus, rotation also helps minimize attacks by disease and pests.

• Use friendly insects as natural pesticides.  Ladybugs are a great tool to eliminate aphids from your garden.  In some cities you can buy wiggly bags of them at your local nursery or even order them online.  Placing the ladybugs in your garden and prevent infestations of aphids.

• Organic insecticides can be used to prevent things like beetles and worms. If the eco-balance in your organic garden has not yet been established or if your neighbor's non-organic garden produces bug and beetle fallout in yours,  then using organic insecticides will clear you of the problem. Exercise caution with organic insecticides: they may be organic, but some of them are still poisonous if accidentally ingested. 

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• Use specific plants to attract or repel insects.  This is an excellent way to manage your organic garden. To give you an idea sage repels cabbage moths and black flea beetles, marigolds repel a variety of insects as does rosemary.

• Make your own compost. Place all your plant and lawn clippings onto your compost heap to which you can also add organic vegetable and fruit skins. Once you have a working compost heap going, you will have a ready source of organic, nutrient-rich compost to feed to your soil.

• Use organic seeds. If you’re sowing your own seeds, then you’ll want to sow them from organic fruits and vegetables.  If you are buying plants to start with, make sure you get them from an organic nursery.

Above all, have fun transforming your garden into a beautiful oasis where everything thrives. It takes time to redress the damage past non-organic gardeners have inflicted on the soils and insect life, but with persistent nurturing over a couple of seasons your garden will reward you! You will attract birdlife and bees galore as well.

Be sure to involve your children as much as possible because we have a vested interest in passing on these invaluable green living habits to the new generation.

If you are a beginner and need some guidence, the ebook,    Organic Food Gardening Beginners Manual, will prove helpful.

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