Tips for Successful Organic Gardening
by Martin Wilkerson
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With a bit of time, and knowing what you~re doing,
you can have an organic garden that is free of
chemicals and pesticides. More and more people
are trying organic gardening as they try to live a
healthy life. With just a few hints and tricks you~ll
soon have a vegetable and flower garden that is
beautiful and thriving without having to do much
that is different from gardening with chemicals.
One important step to having those thriving flowers
and vegetables is to make sure that you mulch
around the plants. You can buy mulch or you can
make your own. Making your own means that
you~ll know exactly what goes into the mulch,
ensuring that it is as organic as possible. Mulching
has three purposes: it helps the soil to remain wet, it
adds nutrients that plants need to grow, and it keeps
weeks at bay. And if you have some plants that
require an acid based mulch you can provide this
naturally as well by adding pine needles to your
home-made mulch. Pine needles have a high
concentration of acid which will leach into your
mulch.
You~ll want to add fertilizer at some point to your
plants. You can find organic fertilizers in most
plant and garden stores that are guaranteed to be
natural. There are many other organic supplements
that you can add to the soil as well for both your
vegetable and your flowers.
Hanging bird feeders around your garden is a great
way to encourage birds to visit so that they can help
to keep insects under control naturally. There are
some birds, such as sparrows, that will eat some of
your tender vegetable plants (lettuce, radishes, and
parsley) so make sure that you do some research
first to find out which birds where you live will be
more a pest than a benefit.
Birds won~t be the only way that you want to deal
with the pests in your garden. Since organic
gardening means avoiding the use of chemicals you
won~t be able to use pesticides to rid your garden of
these annoyances. You can make natural solutions
to spray on your plants to rid them of bugs, such as
aphids. One repellant for aphids is to make a
solution of soap and water, spraying it around the
stem and on the leaves and buds of the plant.
You~ll also want to spray the dirt around the plant to
further discourage the aphids.
By following the above tips you~ll soon find
yourself with a vegetable and flower garden that is
pesticide free. Look for more information on
organic gardening in books that you can buy
anywhere.
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