You are ready to plant your organic garden. What great timing. Listed below are some tips that will help you get started with your organic gardening aspirations.
One way to help your organic garden thrive is to leave an undeveloped area that is conducive to the wildlife around your area. Your cultivated garden spaces will benefit from the various insects and wildlife that will inhabit and pollinate the undeveloped space.
For in-home organic gardeners, you are looking for an ideal temperature of around 60-75 degrees for your plants. They need the temperature to be that warm so that they can grow. If you wish to keep your house cooler than that, you may want to use a heat lamp just for the plants.
It can be easy to prepare the soil in a perennial garden. Use your spade to slice chunks of turf up, then flip each piece over, and spread wood chips on top to a depth of four inches. Let the area sit for a fortnight, then turn the earth and set up your new perennial bed.
As the seeds sprout, they’ll need less warmth. Sprouting plants can be removed from the heat source. It is wise to take plastic covers off of the containers in order to eliminate humidity and excess heat. Watch your seeds closely to know how to go about this.
Have plastic bags on hand to put over dirty gardening shoes. This way, you won’t break momentum by fussing with your shoes, and you’ll be quickly back in the garden to finish your work.
When planting seeds in containers, plant the seed roughly three times deeper than the seed’s size. Some seeds need to be in direct sunlight, though, so you need to know information about each type of seed. These seeds include petunias and ageratum. If you’re not sure, a guide either comes with seeds, or you can find this information online.
If you are building a raised bed utilize stone, brick or wood that is untreated. Be sure that any wood you use isn’t chemically treated, and will be able to resist rot naturally. Cypress, locust and cedar are all very good choices. Using untreated wood is especially important for veggie gardens, because chemicals from treated wood could leach into the soil, affecting your food. You may have previously used treated lumber; if so, you should use a plastic liner to cover it.
While it’s harder to grow organically than chemically, the rewards are much better. While chemical-based gardening products make bold claims, it is hard to dispute that organic gardening consistently produces superior results.
Organic Gardening
Gardening is by far one of the most beloved hobbies among men and women from all over the world, but organic gardening takes it a step further by using earth-friendly methods. Organic gardening is an excellent lesson in the plant life cycle and how to get the most from the planting process.
You are now well-equipped with insight on creating an organic garden. No matter how comfortable you felt about the subject, you should be more so now. The tips offered here have give you advice aimed to help your gardening efforts.
Originally posted 2014-08-23 20:11:48.
