Grow Your Own Organic Food
Now you can access the information you want quickly and easily, to make planning and growing your vegetable garden a breeze! Growing our own food makes us less reliant on commercially grown foods. Who knows how long produce might have been sitting around on a shelf, or in a cool-room?
Do you wonder just what chemicals have been sprayed on that perfect-looking tomato, that really is quite tasteless? Being able to walk out to your organic vegetable garden and pick your own food - now let's see... How many food miles is that? - Oh, it's none!
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What's On This Page?
- How to save money by slashing your food bill in half
- Money Saving Gardening Tips
- Composting
- Cool Composting Using A Container
- Useful Composting Sites
- Add The Unique Taste Of Herbs
- Quick Crop Rotation
- Organic Gardening Books on Amazon
- Encouraging Bees and Butterflies
- Growing Vegetables In Rubbermaid Containers
- Useful Container Gardening Sites
- Useful Organic Gardening Sites
- Organic Gardening on eBay
- Growing Organic Food Blog Posts
- Featured Lenses
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How to save money by slashing your food bill in half
How to eliminate the use of chemical pesticides - no need to spray anything nasty in your garden againHow to start your own organic food garden with simple, easy to follow steps - great for beginners
How to provide the freshest, nutritious, most delicious foods for your family
The basic tools you'll need to get started.
How easy it is to convert your current gardening practices (if you garden already) to organic gardening practices
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Money Saving Gardening Tips
These are great for starting off large seeds such as beans, marrows or courgettes. When it is time for planting out, the toilet rolls can be placed directly into the soil without disturbing the roots.
Composting
Unless you are going to buy a compost tumbler,allow plenty of room to be able to turn the compost.
I don't have a very large area and in the winter I often just dig a large hole somewhere in the garden and fill it up. Great for growing runner beans or marrows! One year I noticed that part of a row of peas was a third taller where I had filled a hole the previous winter!
Cool Composting Using A Container
As material breaks down to form compost it gives off heat, and if you have sufficient space and material to generate heat then this will ensure that pernicious weeds will be destroyed. However most of us have to manage with a plastic compost bin or a slatted wooden one.
For a compost bin to work effectively a mixture of material should be added. Too much wet sappy material will turn slimy. Woody material will take longer to rot down and it is worth shredding it first if possible. Try to keep a good balance of materials and adding shredded newspaper and cardboard will help. Turning the compost will speed the rotting process which is why many people choose a compost tumbler.
If you just have a plain plastic bin, every few months lift the bin free of the compost, return the top three-quarters to the bin and either spread the remaining quarter across your beds or bag it up for future use. As a plastic bin will probably not generate enough heat to destroy pernicious weeds, it is probably better to burn these.
Useful Composting Sites
- How To Make Compost
- Growing%20with%20compost.jpg. Most TreeHuggers know that compost is cool - why else would legendary hip-hop act The Roots be seen autographing compost bins, ...
- Compost Guide - Composting Fundamentals
- How to compost, what to compost and what not to compost.
- Composting: Journey to Forever organic garden - how to turn wastes ...
- Basic information on turning biological matter into compost.
Add The Unique Taste Of Herbs
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The Herb Garden
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Herbs grown in raised beds and containers in the Mediaeval Organic Garden adds diversity to the garden. Featuring flowers and weeds not normally associated with herbs e.g. pot marigold, dandelion and nettle,...
Quick Crop Rotation
One way I do this is to use a piece of guttering about 3ft in length. I fill this with compost and sow seeds. The young plants are then ready when ground becomes available. Simply dig a shallow trench, slide the plants in and water well.
I find this works well with peas and fast maturing crops such as lettuce.
Organic Gardening Books on Amazon
Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long
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Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)
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The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control: A Complete Problem-Solving Guide to Keeping Your Garden and Yard Healthy Without Chemicals
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Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners
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Encouraging Bees and Butterflies
For fruit and vegetables to grow well they need pollination. I always have patches of wild and garden flowers to encourage not only bees and butterflies but also insects to eat aphids. Growing Vegetables In Rubbermaid Containers
It is possible to buy self watering containers, but they are expensive and many people make their own using Rubbermaid containers. There are a number of websites that give instructions on how to do this, one of the best being josho.com
I have a spring that rises behind my house and trickles down across the concrete beside the building. Although the area receives no sun at all, I know from experience how beneficial the constant supply of water is to container grown plants. I believe that converting an ordinary Rubbermaid container into one that is self watering is well worth the extra effort needed.
However, if you decide just to use an ordinary container, vegetables will still grow very well. Use good quality compost and incorporate some water retaining crystals. If you decide to grow root vegetables select mini varieties and do check to see how often they will need additional fertilizer.
Fast growing salad crops are well suited for growing in Rubbermaid containers and given some protection will extend the growing season.
Useful Container Gardening Sites
- Container Gardening
- Useful information on using potato and strawberry pots.
- Gardening in Small Spaces
- A lot of information packed into one article. What type of compost to use, siting and which vegetables do best in a container.
- The Compact Solution
- Another good article on container growing with tips not found elsewhere.
Useful Organic Gardening Sites
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Growing Organic Food Blog Posts
- The Secret Roof Garden | BU Today
- Growing organic tomatoes, learning to compost, with great views.
- Seven reasons for you to grow an organic vegetable garden of your ...
- Lastly, growing organic vegetables simply means that we will not add anything, that they are not naturally meant to have, to help them grow. As you will be able to guess, fertilizers, additives, hormones or pesticides are all components ...
- The Cleanest Line: Growing Organic Fibers
- Growing Organic Fibers. Davis_t_0169 As a founding member of Organic Exchange (OE), a nonprofit dedicated to expanding the production and use of organically grown fibers, Patagonia recently attended their annual conference and board ...
- Growing Organic Beets in the Garden: Natural Gardeners can Grow ...
- Organic gardeners grow beets in the ground and the container garden for the roots and salad greens. Gardeners can fertilize and control beet pests without chemicals.
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People find many various reasons for pursuing vegetable gardening as a hobby. Some people enjoy growing their own food, while others find vegetable gardening to be an effective way of relaxing, thus finding relief from daily stress. With all the pest...
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Making Compost
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Composting happens when organic material breaks down to produce a rich natural fertilizer for your soil. Making compost can be as easy as adding food scraps to a worm bin every week. I hope the materials here can help you get started.
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Finding organic gardening supplies
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