A lot of people become interested in organic horticulture due to worry about long-term, poisonous effects of pesticides and commercial fertilizers on the environment and their personal health. Another benefit of organic gardening is that it is relatively inexpensive. This article provides several useful tips that will help you improve your organic horticulture techniques.
Look for the variants of a plant that offer the highest yield. It is quite common to find that hybrids, which are often able to resist disease and withstand cold climates, produce yields much larger than their conventional counterparts.
Start your seedlings in pots inside and then transplant them into your garden. This increases the chance that your plants will survive to adulthood. In addition, you can shorten the intervals between your plantings. You can plant the seedlings once you have removed the old plants.
Choose perennials that slugs are not attracted to. Snails and slugs can quickly wreak havoc on a garden. They’re particularly fond of perennials with smooth and thin leaves, especially if the plants are young. There are, however, certain types of perennials that slugs and snails hate. Most of these varieties either have tough leaves or taste unappealing. A few great choices are achillea, campanula, and heuchera. Other options from which you can choose are hellebourus and euphorbia.
You can make your flower beds brighter with biennials and annuals. You can use biennial and annual flowers to brighten the bed, and let you change how it looks. In addition, they work well as gap fillers between other areas, as long as those areas receive plenty of sunlight. Some flowers you can use are rudbekia, petunias, cosmos, marigolds, or sunflowers.
Check the soil before you plant anything in your garden. For a small fee, a soil analysis can be obtained – based on that report – the soil can be properly enriched to support a vibrant garden. A lot of cooperative extension offices can provide this service to you and it is worth knowing what you need to do in order to avoid ruining your plants.
Grow wheat or cat grass in the area around the plants that your cat is eating. Another option is to place offensively smelling objects on the topsoil near and around the plants you want to protect. Citrus peels or mothballs are a couple of examples.
Start your garden by planting seed in small pots. Your can contribute to environmental soundness by beginning your garden with fresh seeds. Very few nurseries recycle the plastics that they use as containers for their plants, so the majority of these containers are thrown away and dumped in landfills. Therefore, it is better for the environment to plant a garden with seeds or to find a nursery that packages its plants using organic materials.
Be smart when you water your garden. Use a type of soaker hose so that you don’t need to do individual waterings with the hose nozzle, or be refilling a watering can constantly. Lower your water pressure on the soaker hose to avoid harming tender plants. Let the soaker hose do its thing for a couple hours, and your plants are watered.
Hopefully the useful advice in this article will help you create and maintain your own beautiful, healthy, and toxin free organic garden. You will also see more animals in your garden, because organic gardens are more attuned to nature.
