Many people believe that fruits and vegetables that are grown organically are far superior to regular produce. Rather than purchasing it from stores, you can choose to grow it yourself. Below is a selection of organic gardening tips that will help you to start harvesting delicious, healthy produce at home.
Make garden tools do double duty as handy makeshift rulers. Tools with long handles such as hoes and rakes can double as measuring sticks. Place the handles on the floor to measure the distance between them. It’s a good idea to label distances with a permanent marker. This modified ruler will serve you well as you begin working in your garden.
When it’s autumn, you know what that means. It’s time to plant fall vegetables! Why not plant lettuce and kale inside a hollowed-out pumpkin? After cutting an opening and removing the meat and seeds from inside the pumpkin, use Wilt-Pruf, sprayed throughout the inside and cut edges, and prevent rot from occurring. You can now use it to plant in, as you would a pot.
For weeds that aren’t in the middle of your plants, use boiling water to kill their roots. Boiling water is a safe herbicide which won’t damage your garden or your body. Soak weeds with freshly boiled water, just being mindful to not afflict damage on plants you want to keep. Boiling water kills weeds by destroying their roots. Weeds won’t be able to survive, never mind grow, with damaged weeds.
An excellent garden shouldn’t begin from plants. They should begin from seeds. Starting with your own seeds is more environmentally friendly than buying plants from a nursery. Very few nurseries recycle the plastics that they use as containers for their plants, so the majority of these containers are thrown away and dumped in landfills. Therefore, it is better for the environment to plant a garden with seeds or to find a nursery that packages its plants using organic materials.
All of your vegetable plants should have approximately two inches, just outside the stem, of organic mulch placed around them. The mulch will help keep the dirt around the plants more moist. It also helps prevent weeds from growing. This can prevent you from having to constantly pull weeds.
Pick a plant that will be a focal point. Gardens are like art; you need to give the piece (or garden) an initial focal point. Focal points in gardens are normally a plant specimen that no one else in the neighborhood has in their landscape.
Easily and quickly prepare your ground for a garden of perennials. Take your spade and work up a thin layer of soil. Turn that soil over, then spread a few inches of wood chips on the newly turned area. After a few weeks, you can then dig into the turf and plant the perennials of your choosing.
When you are working in your garden, you will want to have all of your tools in a convenient location. Wasting time finding tools is inefficient gardening. Prepare all the tools you need before you go out to work on your garden, and put them away nicely when you are done. Get a tool belt if you need to, or a pair of pants with a lot of pockets.
Stop buying inferior produce. Use these suggestions listed here to produce fruit and veggies.
Originally posted 2015-07-28 14:13:20.
