There are many different reasons why one would might prefer organic horticulture methods over more traditional approaches. Some of the most popular reasons include concerns about chemicals, health problems and the environment. Additionally, a lot of organic gardening techniques do not cost a lot of money. In the following paragraphs, you’ll find some suggestions that will help you make the most of your garden.
Plants Outside
To keep your plants from getting shocked, you need to gradually introduce them to changes in temperature and conditions. Put the plants outside in the sun for one to two hours in the beginning. Slowly, day after day, you can leave your plants outside for a little longer. By the week’s end, your plants should then be ready for the big move!
Choose plants that will give you the most yield at harvest time. There are genetically modified plants that resist cold and/or disease. These often give higher yields due to higher survival rates.
There are grass varieties, such as wheat grass or catnip, that will give your feline something to nibble on besides your garden. Try putting mothballs or citrus on your soil to wards pets away.
If your soil is highly alkaline, try mixing used coffee grounds into the soil. This is an easy and inexpensive solution to increase the acid content back into the soil. You will discover that your vegetables are more flavorful than ever before.
Knee Pads
To save your knees from the wear and tear of horticulture, invest in some knee pads if your garden includes a lot of low-growth plants. Without pads, you may have pain in your knees from spending too much time kneeling on the hard ground. You can be more comfortable in the garden with a good pair of horticulture knee pads.
A wheelbarrow and kneeling bench or stool are smart investments for your garden. Get a portable stool if you want to garden comfortably without damaging your knees. In addition, maintaining a garden typically means moving around heavy dirt and other objects, which makes buying a wheelbarrow a very smart purchase.
Use only pesticides designed to kill the specific type of pest in your garden, and avoid the broad-spectrum kind. Broad spectrum pesticides don’t only kill the offending pests, but the beneficial ones also. The beneficial insects, which kill the pests, are much more sensitive to pesticides than the pests. Using them will reduce your population of good bugs, and increase the bad. This will leave you using even more pesticides to fix the problem.
Once you start to actually apply what you learned from this article you can start growing a prosperous and healthy organic garden in your own back yard for the future. As your garden starts to become more attuned with nature, you will also see it attracting more wildlife.
Originally posted 2015-08-07 13:19:22.
