Organic products are usually tastier and healthier than other foods. Instead of buying your produce from supermarkets, you should try growing your own. Read the following article to discover the secret to growing an organic garden right at home!
You should teach your children how to garden alongside you. They will enjoy learning about nature and bonding with you.
Are you a parent? If you are, try planting some strawberries like everbearing strawberries in your garden. Children love to snap up these sweet juicy fruits for themselves and will be much more willing to eat other foods you’ve planted as well.
A great way to ensure that your organic garden will do well is to keep a section of your land unspoiled. The natural wildlife will spring up and make for a perfect organic habitat. Your cultivated garden spaces will benefit from the various insects and wildlife that will inhabit and pollinate the undeveloped space.
Flower Beds
For your flower beds, organic material should be used as mulch. Two or three inches should be enough. Mulch discourages weeds and helps retain moisture while adding nutrients to your flower bed. In addition, your flower beds will have a beautiful, finished appearance year round.
Have some plastic bags on hand that you can put over your gardening shoes if they are muddy. This lets you be able to return to the garden without interrupting your work.
In your compost, use green and dried plants in equal parts. Green means plant cuttings including grass, produce and weeds. Dried material includes straw, shredded paper, and cardboard. Avoid ashes, meat, charcoal and diseased plants in your compost.
Do you want to kill weeds in a natural way? A layer of newspaper, several pages thick, placed over the ground will do the trick. In order to grow, weeds need sunlight. If you place sheets of newspaper over the weeds, they will die due to a lack of sunlight. Because newspapers decompose well with the passage of time, they make great additions to compost. Of course, you may wish to cover the paper with mulch to make it appear more attractive.
If you have problem slugs in your organic garden, get rid of them naturally with a beer trap. Take a glass jar and bury it in your garden so that the top of it is level with the soil. Fill the jar with beer about an inch lower than the top. The beer helps attract slugs and they end up trapped.
It is more rewarding to have an organic garden even though it is often more work. While chemical claims are wondrous, growing organically is a great reward to whomever eats your produce.
Soil health can be improved by adding mulch. Protection is provided by placing the layer of mulch upon the soil. This protective effect is especially important during the summer, as it protects the roots from the effects of the heat. It greatly reduces water loss, keeping the soil moist with fewer waterings. This also helps all the weeds you have stay under control, relieving stress from your shoulders.
Over-watering plants is counterproductive, as too much water reduces plants’ ability to absorb nutrients from the surrounding soil. Before you set out to water your plants, you might want to verify that the forecast does not call for rain. If rain is in the forecast, it is best not to water that day.
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Don’t settle for inferior produce. Apply what you’ve learned in this article today, and start growing your own produce.
