When you take time to apply proper organic gardening techniques and products, it really does show. It presents the fact that you are concerned about your plants and you want them to thrive. This is an admirable thing. Like with any other skill set, you can always add and improve. The following advice will help you out.
When choosing plants, pick those that produce a high yield. A lot of times a hybrid that will tolerate cold weather or disease will give you a higher output than heirlooms.
If you want to keep your garden free of pests, start with healthy soil! If you have healthy looking plants, they are stronger and more resistant to diseases and bugs. To increase your garden’s likelihood of producing strong and healthy plants, use high-quality soil containing minuscule amounts of chemicals, which will eventually collect salts.
You may be able to re-pot some plants to bring indoors for the winter. Your best bet would be try to save the best or most hearty plants. Dig the plant up without damaging the roots and place it a big enough pot.
Yes, you really have to weed. Weeds can be extremely detrimental to your garden. White vinegar has been known to kill weeds quickly. White vinegar kills weeds. Keep a solution of vinegar diluted with water on hand to spray on weeds.
Start Planting
The approach of fall means you need to start planting autumn goodies. Instead of a clay pot, show some fall spirit by using a hollow pumpkin to plant your lettuce or kale in. Cut an opening in the top of your pumpkin, scoop out the inside, and spray the entire thing with Wilt-Proof. This will prevent rotting. Once you have completed this, start planting!
Try growing some cat grass or wheat grass in the vicinity of the plants that your cat likes to eat. It may also work to add citrus peelings or mothballs to the soil of the plants, because the odor is unpleasant to cats.
Come up with a gardening plan before planting anything. This will assist you in recognizing your tiny plants when they start to pop up. With a plan, you will also be less likely to lose track of small groups or individual plants within a large and ambitious garden.
Knee Pads
If your landscape includes low-growing plants, you should invest in a set of knee pads specifically designed for horticulture. You will end up spending a good deal of time on your knees and this can cause a lot of pain by the end of the day. With good knee pads, you can stay in the garden longer, and more comfortably.
Broad-spectrum pesticide is not a good garden choice. While broad-spectrum pesticides will kill most pests, they will also kill helpful insects. Good bugs are often more sensitive to pesticides than their bad counterparts, so if the population of good bugs goes down, the pest problem can grow. In the end, you may resort to using even more pesticides in order to erase the problem.
Coffee grounds are a great addition to soil. Coffee grounds are filled with nutritional elements plants need, such as nitrogen. A strong nitrogen source in your garden area is a wonderful way to have healthy and strong plants.
Get added value from your property. You can get a very high return from improving your home through landscaping. There are some varieties of plants that increase property values by over 20%. You should purchase plants that are well-suited to your landscape and environmental conditions.
Laundry Basket
Use an old laundry basket to collect your produce. The laundry basket is a perfect strainer for any produce run off. The basket won’t be affected by the water and it will drain right off as though it were poured into a large sieve.
Now you know more about organic horticulture. This is a positive thing. The tips in this article were intended to enhance your organic gardening skills, as everyone can benefit from learning. In fact, it is possible that you came across a trick that you never would have thought of otherwise.
Originally posted 2013-05-14 13:46:11.
