Enjoy a collection of gardening tips!
I always wanted to know what good and healthy soil is and why it’s so important for growing plants. I recently had a chance to get in touch with a lovely gardener who is enthusiastic about sustainable gardening and growing food organically. Today’s article is about organic garden soil and it’s benefits she has taught me.
I hope you can learn something from this!
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Welcome to the wonderful world of growing your own food. Organic gardening is a fun and rewarding project that is always evolving and teaching us old gardeners new ways of doing things.
Don’t be intimidated by the term ‘organic garden’, it simply means growing plants without using any chemicals. The earth will give you everything needed to grow food and flowers. You just need to know a few tips about how to start an organic garden.
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Fertilizer is food for the garden soil and plants need fertiled soil in which to grow. There are many different types of fertilizer on the market, like organic, synthetic, liquid, and granulated, to mention a few.
Regardless of the type of fertilizer you decide to use, its main goal is to feed the soil. Some types will only provide an instant meal for the soil and others will provide a long-lasting meal and improve soil quality.
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When it comes to mulching, you can’t really go wrong. As long as you use organic matter to layer your garden, there’s no way you can harm it, and in fact, you can only help it. There are, however, some organic matters that work better than others.
In order to get rid of weeds invading your flowerbeds, there are some ways to keep them out.
Let me show you some of those “better to use” mulches and explain their individual benefits. They are organic mulching.
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Everyone has kitchen waste, and that waste can be transformed into a useful garden product called compost.
Compost is decomposed, organic matter that is rich in nutrients that plants need. Compost also improves soil structure and provides several other benefits for plants, making it well worth the effort to create. So how do I compost kitchen waste?
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