Organic produce is much more tasty and healthy than the mass produced fruit and vegetables normally found at the supermarket. Why not consider producing your own organically grown produce? Read this article and learn how you can grow your very own organic garden.
Try using climber plants to cover up your fences and walls. They can be used to cover up unsightly fences or walls. Often, they can grow enough to cover up an eyesore in one season. They may grow up through some existing shrubs and trees, and can even be worked to grow around an arbor. Some types of climbers support themselves naturally through twining stems or tendrils, but others will have to be attached to something. Honeysuckle and jasmine are very beautiful varieties of such climbers.
Before actually putting plants into your garden, check the type and compostion of your soil. For a tiny fee, a soil analysis may be done, and based on the results, the soil can support a growing garden by you enriching it as necessary. Save yourself the trouble of a failed crop by contacting your local Cooperative Extension to preform the soil test.
Stink Bugs
While working in your garden during the fall season, watch out for those stink bugs! Stink bugs prefer peppers, beans, tomatoes, and various varieties of fruits. Proper measures should be taken in order to ensure minimal damage to your crops.
It is very important to keep the weeds from taking over in your garden. Weeds can take over a healthy garden faster than you think. Try using white vinegar to get rid of weeds. White vinegar will kill those pesky weeds. If you are too busy to pull weeds by hand, make a white vinegar solution and keep it handy for a quick spray when needed.
If you’re like many gardeners, autumn means that it’s time to get some delicious fall edibles growing in your garden. A pumpkin makes a great container, and costs less than a clay pot. Once you cut an opening at the top of the pumpkin and scoop out the insides, spray the inside and edges with Wilt-Pruf to keep the pumpkin from rotting. You can start planting now.
Coffee Grounds
If a test indicates that your soil is very alkaline, you can mix the dirt with used coffee grounds. Coffee grounds add acidity to the soil and are very cheap. The right soil will make your vegetables taste better and make your flowers more vibrant and aromatic.
Plan your garden before you plant it. Doing this makes it easier to keep track of where you planted what when you first start to see sprouts. It can also aid in identifying the less prominent fledgling plants that lie withing a larger landscaped garden.
Start your garden off right with seeds, not plants. It’s better for the environment to begin from seed. The plastics used in nurseries are rarely recycled and ends up in landfills, so it is best to start with the seeds or buy from nurseries who use organic materials in packaging their plants.
The water that is leftover from the steamed vegetables is great to pour over them. You may fertilize the soil with tea or coffee for plants that favor acidic environments, like rhododendrons and gardenias. If you find that you have a fungus problem, try sprinkling some chamomile tea on your plants.
To create an attractive, quintessentially English garden, you need to use a mixture of different plants that all grow to varying heights in each bed. Using plants that all grow the same height result in a flat and uniform looking bed.
You no longer need to buy inferior produce. Use the tips featured above the next time you are in your garden, and in the not too distant future, you could be harvesting your very own organic fruits, vegetables and herbs.
