What Is All Of The Buzz About Organic Horticulture?

Tending to an organic garden can be a highly rewarding and calming activity that anyone can participate in. However, a beginner may find the whole experience intimidating. The question is, what can a beginner do to become knowledgeable on organic horticulture? Keep reading to discover some useful tips and tactics.

Digging in hard clay soil is made even more difficult because it sticks to the shovel. Use a thin coat of floor or car wax on your shovel, then buff it with a nice clean cloth to make dealing with clay soil easier. The wax will enable the clay soil to simply slide off the shovel, and will also prevent the shovel from rusting.

If you want to cover up your walls or fences, make sure that you specifically use climbing plants. Climbing plants are great for hiding hideous fences and walls, and they usually grow within a season. They may also grow through tress and shrubs that are already grown, or you can train them to cover your arbor. Some varieties of these plants will have to be tethered to some sort of support, but other varieties will be able to attach to the medium they are climbing. Reliable varieties include clematis, honeysuckle, wisteria, jasmine and climbing roses.

Try growing some cat grass or wheat grass in the vicinity of the plants that your cat likes to eat. 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.

Coffee Grounds

One way to correct your soil’s alkalinity is by amending your soil with used coffee grounds. Used coffee grounds will add acidity, helping to optimize the soil’s pH. This will allow your vegetables and greenery to really thrive.

You must protect tender, deciduous shrubs. Cold weather significantly affects these plants, especially if they are in pots. Tie the tops together, and loosely cover the wigwam with a blanket or sheet. When you do this you allow air to flow and circulate which can actually prevent rotting, this method is great and better than just wrapping your plant in some plastic.

Spectrum Pesticide

Broad-spectrum pesticide is not a good garden choice. Broad-spectrum pesticides not only kill pests, but also “good” bugs like ground beetles that eat pests. Beneficial insects are more susceptible to toxic pesticides than their annoying counterparts, so a broad-spectrum pesticide could kill all of the good bugs first, allowing the population of bad pests to multiply. You will need even more pesticides to deal with the problem, and it will never really go away.

When horticulture outdoors, you must always wear sunscreen and appropriate attire; this will help to protect you from sun damage. There are many ways to protect yourself from the sun’s damaging rays such as wearing sunglasses, sunscreen and wide-brimmed hats. Using the right protection from the harmful rays of the sun means less of a chance of you getting sunburn and skin cancer.

If you are going for a British feel with your garden, then vary the heights of your plants. You should avoid using plants of the same height so that your flower bed doesn’t look flat and uniform.

Keep your tools handy to work more efficiently. You can wear an apron or pants that have a lot of pockets, or use a big bucket or can. You should always have your gloves, pruning shears and a trowel close to you.