Organic Food Gardening Beginner's Manual Review

This Organic Food Gardening Beginner's Manual is just packed with oodles of information to give a super abundant organic garden. If you are a complete novice, like I was before I started reading this guide, you will have in your hands everything you need to know - from start to finish.

In this ebook Julie (pictured to the right) tells you how to have a truly 'organic garden' using simple systems and techniques that allow nature to help.

Learn what you need to know:
+ to encourage earthworms and micro-flora to flourish
+ to improve drainage and soil conditions
+ to encourage the 'good' insects
+ to have vigorously growing plants
+ to providing the soil with nutrient-rich humus
+ to feed your plants
+ to protect your plants without chemicals

First Things First - Planning
To be successful in organic vegetable gardening requires some basics and prior planning before jumping in.

Among other things, this chapter prepares you for the upcoming growing season by helping you know what you will have to do, i.e., where you should place your garden, when you should start it, how to plan or design it out and much more.

How To Create Healthy, Fertile Soil
Soil is one of the most important things in giving you a rich and profitable
Julie tells you about the different types of soils you can have and how to quickly test your soil. This is obviously followed by suggestions and things you should do with your soil to get it ready for planting and improve it for the future.

Feeding Your Soil
Now that you have your soil, how do you improve it and feed it to make it even better. Julie tells you how and tells you how you can mimic nature in building the soil up into a super nutritious soil.

Make Your Own Compost
We all know compost is needed and important. Here you learn the simple science behind it. She explains what should and should not go into compost and explain how different compost ingredients serve purposes. More of one and not enough of another will slow the whole composting process down.

Good and useful compost takes time to make, so she explains two ways to make compost with one being faster than the other. She also gives suggestions on what to add to speed up the process and how, in the end, you will know if it is good and ready to use.

Basic Tools For Veggie Gardening
Not many tools are necessary to start, but Julie gives a few basics and particulars which will get you going.

Create A ????? Garden Plot
Where to start with your garden?? You might be surprised with the garden type she recommends starting with. It is simple and quite beneficial.

Growing Your Food From Seeds
If you start early enough, you can grow your plants from seed. While this is beneficial in many ways, there are some basics you should know before starting.

You don't want to ruin your seeds, so to germinate them successfully, you need to know about moisture, warmth, air, light and how they work together to produce a good crop.

Transplanting Your Seedlings Successfully
If you grew your plants from scratch, now you need to know when to transplant them. You also need to know about hardening them in the outdoors and much more to insure they grow good.

Transplanting Established Plants
If you don't grow your plants from seeds, you need to learn some basics on transplanting them from the container to the garden. Learn the one thing you should never, never add to your planting hole before inserting your plant. Much more needs to be known at this important step and she covers it well.

The Best Ways To Water
Water is very important. Learn some simple ideas on watering and learn how much and when you should water.

Mulching Is A Must!
Read about eight different types of mulch that can be used. Learn what is good and what is not.

Keeping On Top Of Weeds
Weeds are the bane of every gardener. Learn ways you can easily deal with them and keep them at bay.

How To Make Your Own Liquid Fertilizers
Ever consider making your own liquid fertilizer. Well, Julie tells you how to make 5 different ones and where they can be used.

Natural Insect, Pest & Disease Control
Learn to how deal with persistent bug problems with these organic ways. Specifically she covers four different insect problems, how to make a home made oil spray and 13 different ways to fight your insect problem with out resorting to harmful chemicals.

Easy To Grow Vegetables
If you are just starting out as a newcomer to organic gardening, here are some good, easy to grow, vegetables to start with. Ten in all, including what needs to be done and what to look for in growing them.

Grow Healthy Organic Herbs
Herbs can be grown easily, but what does it take to even improve their yields even further? Julie tells you the best condition on how to grow healthy and vigorous herbs.

How To Grow Perennial Vegetables
Wouldn't it be great if you planted vegetables once and they came up every year thereafter. Well these are called perennials. Julie tells you what some of these are and how to prepare your soil for them and where to plant them so they are successful every year.

How Much Do I Plant?
Before you start planting, do you know how much you will need. If you over plant, you might just kill your self keeping up with them all - if this is your first year.

So take your worries away since she suggests what to start with and when to plant them.

How To Have More Vegetables For More Of The Year
Wouldn't it be nice to extend your growing season? Well there are ways to do this. It is called Succession Planting. It is the practice of planting the same type of plant, but at timed intervals.

Again Julie explains this all in more detail and tells you what vegetables you can do it with. Very beneficial in providing for your family more great tasting organic vegetables.

If you want to learn what else you can do to increase the length of your growing season and what the real secret to succession (or successive) planting is - you'll have to get the ebook to find.

Food Gardening In Small Spaces
What if you live in an apartment or don't want a large vegetable garden? No problem. Julie lists 8 benefits of container gardening and explains how to go about getting started, i.e., how to prepare your soil, how to water, what to grow and where to put them.

Organic Gardening Equipment & Supplies
Although some things may be hard to find, here you can get ideas on where to get them.

Organic Food Profits
If you are lucky enough to have a super successful yield, what do you do with all the extras?

The Organic Food Gardening Beginner's Manual comes with one upsell. That is, for a few dollars more, you can also purchase this guide on Companion Planting.

This 43 page ebook tells you everything you need to know about companion planting. Companion planting has been going on for years. It is about knowing what to plant, and not plant, with certain plants. It has been found that plants do really well when planted in close proximity to some plants and not so good when planted close to other plants.

This valuable information has been around for years and has been passed down from generation to generation. If something helps to improve your plant yields it is good information to know and share.

This ebook will tell you all about companion planting for Fruits, Herbs and Vegetables. It will explain all about determining which plants grow best together, as well as, those which don't like each other.

It will describe how mixed planting can deter specific pests and weeds on the land close to them

It will describe how a large variety of herbs, planted amongst vegetables can lead to lower insect problems.

All of this, in addition to layout guides and examples of good plant combinations, much can be found in this excellent guide and is quire worth while in improving your organic gardening yields even more.

The Organic Food Gardening Beginner's Manual also comes with a bonus Seed Saving Tips & Techniques in your Organic Garden, also written by Julie Villani.

Eventually most gardeners will decide that they want to save their own seed and grow plants from it. Again, Julie's writing will tell you everything you need to know to be successful with this too.

She will explain the various approaches you can take for seed saving from different types of plants, and explains how they will pollinate or what you need to do to pollinate them.

Bottom line is that collecting your own organic seed from plants in your garden is a great way to save money (since seedlings can be a bit expensive when you add them all up and you don't know how they've been grown) and you will be
saving your favorite varieties to grow next season.

Lastly, another bonus is a printable Garden Diary of all the important things that should be recorded so you know what you did to be so successful. It is also quite helpful next year when you go and start afresh.