In the world of organic gardening, there are plenty of great resources available to both new and experienced organic gardeners alike. There are many e-guides, books, videos, and other resources available. This set of tips contains some of the best advice for helping a good organic gardener become a great organic gardener.
Pay attention to how you lay sod. Start by preparing your soil with care. Pull all the weeds and loosen the soil so the new roots can take easily. Make sure the soil is packed firmly and even. You then will want to thoroughly wet the soil. Avoid laying your sod in straight rows with all of the seams lining up. Instead, stagger the rows for a more pleasing visual effect. Make sure that the sod forms an even, flat surface, and if you have any gaps show between the sod, fill them with a little bit of soil. Sod has to be watered daily for two weeks, and then it can be rooted.
Keeping your garden soil rich and healthy is the best way to discourage garden pests. Healthy plants are stronger and more able to resist both pests and disease. Begin with a high-quality soil with less chemicals to avoid salt accumulation, and you give your garden an excellent chance of growing healthy plants.
When winter arrives, you could save some plants by placing them inside your house. Think about saving your resistant plants or the expensive ones. Dig carefully around the roots and transfer the plants to a pot.
You can plant wheat grass or cat grass near the plants that the cat eats. Try putting mothballs or citrus on your soil to wards pets away.
Don’t mow your grass too short. If you leave your grass kind of high, your roots will be deeper and your lawn will be stronger and not dry out. Leaving the grass short makes it more prone to drying out, which leaves your lawn look really brown and yucky.
Many people delight in the taste of fresh mint leaves, but become frustrated when the plant spreads wildly. Control their expansion by confining them to a large pot. If you prefer, you can even place the container in the ground, but the pot’s walls will prevent the mint from spreading and being a nuisance in your garden.
Keeping pests out of a vegetable garden can be difficult. Since you are growing the vegetables for your own consumption, you want to stay away from pesticides. Instead of resorting to these harmful chemicals, you can keep garden pests at bay simply by paying close attention. By noticing them at an early stage, you can simply pluck them away from your plants with your fingers.
To draw good insects to your garden, plant heather. Heather attracts bees, and when they come out in the spring, this provides an early nectar source. Spiders, ground beetles and other insects helpful to your garden tend to live in a heather bed, because heather beds are generally undisturbed. Because of this, you should put on a pair of gloves when it’s time to prune the heather.
It can be extremely fast and easy to plant perennials into your garden. Use a spade to dig up some soil, flip the soil over, and finally, sprinkle around 3-4 inches of wood chips on the soil. Give the area a couple of weeks, then dig into it and plant your new perennials.
Have your tools for horticulture nearby in order to maximize your efficiency with gardening. For example, you could use an over-sized tote bag or an apron with multiple pockets. You should be able to do your garden work quickly if you keep a trowel, gloves, small pruning shears, and other handy devices close to you.
Pine makes a much better mulch than you might think. Some garden plants have a higher acidity, and prefer a more acidic soil. For such plants, pine needles function both as a handy mulch and as a soil amendment to lower the pH. Go ahead and cover the beds you have with needles a couple of inches and while they decompose, they actually disperse some acid into the soil.
Treated Wood
A diversity of materials can be used to construct raised beds. These include brick, stone, and wood. If you use wood, be sure that it is untreated and naturally rot resistant. Optimal wood choices that fit these criteria are locust, cypress, and cedar. Avoid using treated wood in an organic vegetable garden. The chemicals in the wood can leak into the soil, and eventually into the plants. In the event your vegetable garden already has treated wood as part of its enclosure, consider replacing it, or painting it, or wrapping the treated wood in some protective covering. Keep in mind that if any of the untreated wood is below the ground, you should dig it up to make sure that you completely protect your vegetable garden from the chemicals in the treated wood.
After you have read the suggestions here, you will have a better idea of what you need in order to be an organic gardener. Knowing how to make use of the wealth of information out there is important. Keep this advice in mind and put it to good work for you in your own organic garden and hopefully, yield very successful and beautiful results.