Starting and maintaining an organic garden requires a lot of patience, and an affinity for growing plants. Here is your first organic gardening tip: this is a hobby where the goal is to grow food that is healthy and pesticide free. Although this may sound easier than it is. Review the proven organic gardening tips in this article and you’ll be on your way to creating a wonderful organic garden.
Choose higher yield plant varieties. If yield is important, choose hybrids designed to resist cold and diseases rather than traditional varieties.
Try to plan a variety of perennials that are slug-proof. Your plants can be destroyed by slugs and snails overnight. These pests are especially attracted to tender sprouts and to delicate, soft leaves. Slugs and snails will leave some perennials alone, particularly those with a bad taste or tough, hairy leaves. Excellent varieties include heuchera, achillea, euphorbia, campanula, and helleborus.
If your garden includes vegetables, make sure you plant them in a location whether they are exposed to sunlight for a minimum of six hours each day. Most vegetables that can be grown need that much sun to grow well and quickly. This is true of some flowers.
As the weather turns colder, it is important to prepare your sensitive shrubs for the change. Delicate shrubs that are sitting in pots should be sheltered from the cold weather. Tie the tops together, and loosely cover the wigwam with a blanket or sheet. This will work better than wrapping your plant with plastic, because air can still circulate, which will help to prevent rotting.
Start your garden off right with seeds, not plants. It’s better for the environment to begin from seed. Packaging materials for many plants utilize plastics that are not recyclable, so avoid these containers and choose instead to sow your garden with seeds or utilize organic pots.
Tools Handy
To be as efficient as possible in the garden, always have your tools handy. Wear pants with multiple pockets or use a toolbox or large bucket. Keep gloves, small pruning shears, a trowel and any other tools handy in order to increase the quickness of the work that goes into your garden.
Once your seeds have germinated they will not need to be kept as warm as before. As they begin growing you can move them farther away from heat sources. It is wise to take plastic covers off of the containers in order to eliminate humidity and excess heat. Check on your seeds often so you catch them when they are ready.
Use several inches of organic materials for mulch in your flower beds. By doing this, you can lock in moisture, discourage weed growth, and nourish your plants. It will also make your flower beds look more finished.
Have plastic bags on hand to put over dirty gardening shoes. Doing this prevents lengthy work interruptions, and allows you to finish the job quickly.
Do you want to kill weeds without using commercial chemicals? A layer of newspaper, several pages thick, placed over the ground will do the trick. The main thing that a weed needs to thrive is sunlight. With layers of newspaper on them, the weeds are not going to have light, and therefore will not grow. Old newspapers are a valuable addition to your compost heap. Of course, you may wish to cover the paper with mulch to make it appear more attractive.
Direct Sunlight
A good way to plant seeds is in containers. Plant them three times as deep as their overall size. There are exceptions, however. Some types of seeds require more direct sunlight than others, and as such they should not be fully covered. Some of these seeds are petunias and ageratum. With so many different types of seeds, it is important that you check seed packaging or utilize other resources, such as the Internet, to discover which seeds require exposure to direct sunlight.
The hobby of organic gardening requires patience and effort, with a little help from Mother Nature. This hobby allows you to use the land and grow delicious food. You can be a successful, effective organic gardener by using this information and working hard.
Organic Gardening Tips
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