It goes without saying that taking care of an organic garden is critical for its success. This can be achieved by using smart, eco-savvy gardening techniques. With these smart tips, your garden produce will grow to be healthier and more delicious. Utilize these tips to create a garden that stands out as an organic mecca of beauty.
Think about planting everbearing strawberries in your garden, especially if you have small children. Small kids enjoy picking fruit themselves out of a garden. Because of this, they’ll be more likely to provide you with some assistance in your garden if they feel like they’re receiving something out of it.
You should work efficiently, instead of working hard in your garden, to simplify things. Don’t waste your time by searching high and low for that packet of seeds or spade. Have all of tools you will need for the day before you head out your garden. When you are finished, put them away neatly for the next time. If you need to use a tool belt, try using some pants with pockets in them.
Pine Needles
Pine needles should not be overlooked as a great source for mulch. Some plants are highly acidic, and like soil that is acidic too. If you have acid loving plants, use pine needles as a mulch. Covering your plant beds with a layer of pine needles will allow the pine needles to disperse their acidic nutrients into the soil for your plants.
You may find an old plastic laundry basket ideal for gathering vegetables from your garden. The laundry basket is a perfect strainer for any produce run off. If you hose off your produce in the laundry basket, the water will leave the basket through the holes in the sides.
Use equal parts of green and dried plant material in your compost pile. Green means plant cuttings including grass, produce and weeds. Dried plant material, however, can include items such as cardboard, sawdust and shredded paper. Certain substances will undermine your composting efforts and cancel out any benefits; these include meat, charcoal, ash or plants that have diseases or fungal growths.
Do you want to know how to kill weeds in a natural way? You can place newspaper in several layers, and it will help control your weeds. Weeds need sunlight to grow. By placing newspaper over them, they will not get light and suffocate. Newspapers tend to break down into compost nicely. Try adding some mulch on top of it to make appear more attractive.
Use a beer trap to get rid of unwanted pests, like slugs. Start by burying a wide-mouth jar in the soil, ensuring that the rim of the jar is just at the soil’s surface. Next, fill up the jar with beer until there is around one inch between the liquid level and the jar top. Slugs will crawl into the jar to get the beer and not be able to get out again.
Every year, you should plant different things and in different places. When plants of the same family are planted in the same spot year after year, it can encourage the growth of fungus and disease. The fungus and bacteria will stay in the ground a whole year and attack your plants when the time is right. Different plants have different immunities and vulnerabilities. Changing what you plant where will naturally stave off fungus and disease.
A perennial garden can be set up in a few easy steps. Cut under the turf with a spade, flip it over, and cover the whole area with several inches of wood chips. Wait a couple of weeks, then you can easily dig into it with a trowel and then plant your favorite perennials.
As you now know, the taste and quality of your produce can be greatly enhanced from utilizing the method of organic gardening. Although it requires lots of hard work and patience, it’s ultimately worth it to own an organic garden that’s successful.
Originally posted 2014-02-24 07:42:22.
