Many people are beginning to enjoy growing an organic garden. By using the advice below, you will be able to get started in organic gardening and create a thriving and beautiful garden. Continue reading to uncover a number of effective tips for growing an organic garden you can be proud of.
Are you a parent? If you are, try planting some strawberries like everbearing strawberries in your garden. Kids delight in the idea of growing things and seeing how things change over time. Explain every step to your child and he or she will hang on to your every word.
Aspirin water has disease-prevention properties that can protect plants. An aspirin and a half, combined with a couple of gallons of water, will do amazing things for your plants. Spray your plants with the water if they have a disease. Apply this solution to your plants every few weeks.
Growing Plants
If you are growing plants organically indoors, you have to consider the light that they are getting. If you’re living in a home that doesn’t receive much sunlight, you should consider growing plants that thrive in environments with low to medium amounts of light. If you do and this does not help, consider investing in some grow-lights.
Learn to work efficiently. One of the biggest time wasters is not keeping track of your tools and having to look for them every time you need them. In addition to keeping your gardening tools in one location, you should also clean your tools after each use. Even something like a carpenter’s tool belt or some cargo jeans work well to keep tools organized.
Keep plastic bags handy to cover your muddy gardening shoes. This helps you stay in the zone so that you can continue gardening when you have completed your tasks in the house.
Tend your organic garden on a regular schedule. Even if you can’t tend to your garden daily, you can do little things to help so that there is not a huge amount of work to be done when you are ready to get back to it. For example, if you have a dog, pull a few weeds while you are outdoors with the dog. Over time, you keep your garden weed free without adding any additional time on to your day.
Laundry Basket
You may find an old plastic laundry basket ideal for gathering vegetables from your garden. You can also use a laundry basket as a strainer. When you put your produce in a basket, you can then rinse it off and let it strain any excess water through the laundry basket holes.
Use equal parts dried and green plant material for your own compost. Green plant material can include items such as leftover produce waste, grass clippings and leaves. Dried plant material consists of sawdust, shredded paper, cardboard, straw, and cut-up and dried wood material. Materials to avoid during composting include diseased plants, meat, ashes and charcoal.
As mentioned earlier, it will take time and effort to achieve the goals you have for your organic garden. Patience will be required. Use what you learned today, and apply it to your garden to see how much of a difference it makes. Just remember to apply these tips as you have read them and your garden should do just fine.
Originally posted 2014-04-24 12:39:04.
