Every spring, whether northern or southern hemisphere, many people begin to think about gardening. Some have been gardening every year since they were old enough to help in the family garden back of the house. Others have begun gardening only recently. Most have questions, though.
How to make an organic garden is a question that arises more frequently these days, as people become more concerned about health issues. They want to know that the produce they are eating is good for their health and safe for their families to eat. They want to begin an organic garden.
Many books have been written about how to make an organic garden, and we cannot compete with them in one article, but we offer here 7 basic steps for beginners.
How to Make an Organic Garden – Step #1
Begin your organic garden by learning your plant hardiness zone. You will need to know your climate, and what organic produce will grow best there. If you live in the United States, you can access the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map on many gardening sites or seed websites. Planting directions on seed packets are based on the average last frost date. The last frost date for your area will be the last spring day when you might have a killing frost.
How to Make an Organic Garden – Step #2
After you have determined your local climate, it is time to choose a location on your property for your organic garden. The area most convenient to your back door may not be the best for an organic garden. Look for a location that never has standing water. Your plants need good soil drainage. Check to see if the plants will be protected from the wind. Will your organic garden be close to water so you can easily care for it?
How to Make an Organic Garden – Step #3
Next, you will need to test the soil for your organic garden. In the U.S., check online for your county or state Home/Agricultural Extension Service. They will guide you in taking soil samples from different areas of the location you chose for your organic garden. Be sure you label each sample of soil as to part of the garden, and send it to be analyzed. This analysis will help you know what to add to the soil for a great harvest. Remember, one of the basic things you will do in your organic garden is to feed the soil so the soil can feed the plants.
How to Make an Organic Garden – Step #4
Order seeds, using information about your climate and soil. Be sure you order certified organic seed so that you can have an authentic organic garden. A good online seed supply source is Main Street Seed and Supply. You can buy as little as a teaspoon of seed for a small organic garden, or pounds of organic seed for farming. While ordering seeds, be sure to include onions, garlic, and marigold flowers. These plants can be a first line of defense in an organic garden’s pest control program.
How to Make an Organic Garden – Step #5
While you wait for your seeds to arrive, you need to prepare the organic garden bed. If there is grass growing in the location, removed it first. Use a sharp, flat-edged spade to slice out the sod. Shake off as much soil as you can, and remove the grass from the area. Till the soil to a depth of about 12″, and work in organic fertilizer, checking your soil analysis to know what amendments are needed.
How to Make an Organic Garden – Step #6
If you have organic seedlings to plant, water them well the day before you intend to plant them in the organic garden. The best time to set them in the garden is a still, overcast day. If you must plant on a sunny day, take care not to stress the plants more than necessary. Use the seedlings’ pots to determine how deeply to plant them.
If you are planting seeds in your organic garden, follow instructions that come with each type of seed.
How to Make an Organic Garden – Step #7
Apply organic mulch soon after planting. Mulch conserves water, cools soil, and keeps weeds at bay. If you use compost, chipped bark, shredded bark, shredded, shredded leaves, or straw, your mulch will also improve soil quality in your organic garden. Apply 2 to 4 inches of mulch, being careful not to get it too close to the plant stems. Mulch can rot the stems. It can also become a hideout for nibbling little garden mice.
Organic Garden Tip:
Label your plant rows and keep a record of your garden’s progress. Save seed information for everything in your organic garden. A garden journal, with photos throughout the gardening season, will help you know what you want to repeat or change in next year’s organic garden.
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Help answer the question about organic
What is the difference in health benefits between regular and organic/unfiltered apple cider vinegar?I have started drinking apple cider vinegar daily in order to increase my health and drop a couple of pounds but I bought filtered apple cider vinegar. I think it is walmart brand but that was all they had. I plan on going out to buy organic ACV after i finish this small bottle. Am I drinking this filtered ACV for nothing or does it still have the same health benefits as organic ACV?
About Author
© 2007, Anna Hart. Anna Hart invites you to read more of her articles about organic gardens at http://www.organicspringtime.com. Anna is posting new articles every week on that site, each one dealing with some facet of organic gardening. If you want to know how to make your own organic fertilizer, you will want to read Anna’s article on the subject.
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whoa!!it looks like a PICTURE!
ur an amazing painter!:D
Do a herb garden. At least it will be useful after the project. Get some seeds and plant them in a planter lined basket. This will look pretty in your kitchen after too.
A good website for organic gardening is http://www.attra.org. Another great resource in Alabama is the local extension office. We live in Alabama and use it a lot. They have info on the web also. We have grown cabbage, broccoli, collards, brussel sprouts, and the like all winter. The worse months for growing in Alabama are July and August. It gets so hot that the tomatoes even stop growing.
Also suggest you look at adding organic material to your soil. My husband double dug our beds and added horse manure in the fall. Even though we got some strange weeds in the spring, the plants and seeds we put out did great.
Good luck.
Great talent Der Mann.
I can recommend a great soil amendment for organic gardening! It is called Pozzolan and it is an all natural volcanic diatomaceous soil amendment that will absorb and store water and nutrients at the root zone. Using Pozzolan will reduce the amount of water needed to keep your plants healthy. It will also create the perfect growing medium for the plants root system. Pozzolan is extremely porous and will improve the percolation rate in clay or sand based soils. It will also helps to break up or loosen the soil so that the root zone has a good mixture of air, soil and water.
It only requires one application, it will not leave the soil.
It is not available everywhere (yet) so you will need to ask at your local green house or nurserty if they carry it. Or check out one of the websites below, they may be able to help you find it.
Good luck and happy gardening!
Excellent work. Pleasure to watch. Perfect music
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Organic gardening is just gardening with out the use of chemicals. Yes, there are alot of products you can buy from nurseries and even Walmart that say they are organic but what they really are is just a waste of money. Do a search on the internet for tips on organic gardening in your area. There is an Organic Gardening Magazine you can subscribe to. The forums on GardenWeb are very helpful also. Jerry Baker is an author of a lot of helpful books for using household ingredients to battle the bugs and other diseases. Amazon.com has his books new and used. He uses dishsoap and alot of of tobacco juice LOL. I have used some of his recipes and they do work.
Incredible! He looks so life like. Just amazing…and what a beautiful subject
Nice work, you did pretty good.
Brilliant Willy, Just Brilliant =D
Get a product that contains Bacillus thuringiensis (BT) such as Dipel or Thuricide. BT is a naturally occurring bacteria that works well against these pests.
Visit our website for more organic gardening ideas at-
http://www.gardening-at-the-crossroads.com/organic-gardening.html
Good Luck and Happy Gardening from Cathy and Neal!
It depends on the produce. Green peppers are not ripe peppers so the seeds will be immature. to get pepper seeds you need to use a ripe (red, yellow or orange) pepper
tomatoes you can use the seeds but you need to ferment the seed first than dry them which takes about 2 to 3 weeks to do properly so you don't get seed born diseases.
Dried beans will work. Potatoes will work but get only organic as the non organic kind have a sprout inhibitor and tend to have more diseases (seed potatoes are certified disease free)
Strawberries and raspberries do not come from seed but from plant divisions and runners
leafy greens are harvested before they go to seed.
Melon seed would be viable but these are almost always hybrid AND they are not grown in isolation so the seed would not only be hybrid but would have crossed with any other melon varieties grown within 2 miles so what ever grew would be nothing like the melon you got the seeds from. This would be true of zucchini, cucumbers and all winter squash as well.
So in theory you could grow a garden this way but few if any of the crops would come back true because most everything is hybridized and since none of these crops were grown for saving seed you would have a lot of crosses on top of the hybrid crossing.
If you want to experiment go for it, if you want a garden from which you can eat the food (by this I do not mean any food you harvest will be inedible, it won't. I am saying you probably won't get a lot to harvest) buy seed.
There will be so little pesticides left after it is broken down that it shouldn't matter. In addition, the amount taken up by new plants growing in the future from that compost would be very small.
Very nice!!
Read ‘The One Straw Revolution’ by Masanobu Fukuoka. He is a Japanese farmer. I have a link to the USA Amazon below. It does not matter what environment you live in as long as you respect it. I live in England and gardeners here seem to be at war with nature, always trying to trick it into producing more. I find that fruit tree and bushes grow them selves over here. I recently started a wild fruit tree map in google, it has trees and bushes local to me on it, it is open to be edited by any one, so please if you have some fruit tree in Florida do add them. There is a link to this below as well.
You’re really good man. You’ve got excellent talent.
I can answer a couple of the questions.
Try planting a herb garden, Oregano, Basil, Thyme, Parsley, Chives, Rosemary. And for more choices of medicinal plants and what they treat check out the article in the first link below.
The second link is for a very good organic fertilizer – that I personally use.