Organic fruits and vegetables are both delicious and healthy, far surpassing normal supermarket produce. Instead of buying your produce from supermarkets, you should try growing your own. This article will get you started with the knowledge you need construct your personal organic garden.
Give your flower beds a boost by introducing annuals and biennials. These fast growth plants make flower beds vibrant, and they let you alter the appearance seasonally and annually. In addition, you might need something to fill empty spaces in your flower garden. Fill gaps with annuals or biennials. Just make sure the flowers will get enough sun to thrive. Attention-getting options exist such as sunflowers and petunias.
If you want to cover up your walls or fences, make sure that you specifically use climbing plants. You can hide an unsightly wall or fence, in as little as one growing season, with the right selection of climbing plant. They also work to cover up old, and possibly dead, vegetation. Some of these plants must have support, and some can attach themselves to something using their stems and tendrils. Honeysuckle and jasmine are very beautiful varieties of such climbers.
Plant some wheat grass or cat grass near where you car tends to nibble in your garden. Another option is to place something smelly, like citrus peels or mothballs, on the soil surrounding the plants that have previously been eaten.
Vegetables in a garden need to have at least six hours of sun every day in order to thrive. This allows the vegetables to grow quickly and healthily. This also rings true for some of the flowers.
Protect your delicate deciduous shrubs from harsh elements. Shrubs in pots especially need special care in the colder weather. Tie the tops tightly together, and cover the wigwam with a sheet or blanket draped loosely over it. This method is superior to covering plants in plastic, because air can freely circulate, which prevents rotting.
Buy a wheelbarrow and kneeling stool to work with in the garden. Spending too much time on the ground working can be quite hard on your knees, and a horticulture stool can help alleviate this, plus make things more comfortable for you. Gardening also usually requires that you transport heavy loads, such as dirt or mulch, and a wheelbarrow will make this much easier to do.
When horticulture, don’t use any broad-spectrum pesticides. These strong pesticides are non-selective, killing beneficial insects as well as pests. Many times good bugs will be more sensitive to harmful pesticides than the ones you are trying to get rid of. If your good bug population goes down, your problem will only get worse. This will cause a cycle to start where you will need to keep increasing the amount of pesticide you are using.
Stop wasting your money on produce that isn’t up to standard. If you follow the advice that you have just read, you will be on your way to an even greener thumb!
Originally posted 2016-02-18 19:37:14.
