You have many options available to enable you to grow a vivacious and colorful organic garden of your very own. You just need to learn them and use them.
When you are tending your garden in the fall, be on the alert for stink bugs. Stink bugs prefer peppers, beans, tomatoes, and various varieties of fruits. If not taken care of, these pests can damage the garden, so take steps to cut down their population.
When you decide to add vegetables into your garden space, be aware that they must be placed where they will receive direct sunlight for a minimum of six hours daily. This allows the vegetables to grow quickly and healthily. This is true of some flowers.
Bring some plants into your home to protect them against winter weather. Your best bet would be try to save the best or most hearty plants. Carefully dig near the roots and transfer those plants into a flower pot.
There are natural steps you can take to keep garden pests at bay. Slugs are repelled by bordering your vegetable garden with either onions or marigolds. You can also mulch around trees and shrubs with wood ash, which drives away insects. These methods are environmentally-friendly and mean you do not have to resort to harsh chemicals.
Put a couple of inches of organic mulch around each of your vegetable plants. Mulch has a nice moisturizing effect on the soil it's spread over. An added benefit is that it also inhibits weed growth. You'll save a ton of time if you don't have to constantly pull out weeds.
Before you start working in your garden, purchase a wheelbarrow and a good kneeling stool. It's rough on your knees to spend lots of time on the ground kneeling or squatting. That's why it's a good idea to have a portable, lightweight garden stool on hand. As well, horticulture can involve some heavy lifting and moving, so a strong wheelbarrow can really make that aspect much more effortless.
It is important to choose the right type of soil if you want to achieve the best results. Depending on the types of plants you would like to grow, your garden's soil might need to be amended with different substances to alter drainage, acidity and other charactheristics that make plants happy. You may also be able to design an artificial area that contains one type of dirt.
In the hottest time of the day, most vegetables are less firm; even the act of harvesting the veggies may cause bruising. Cut them with a tool rather than pulling or twisting, otherwise you could damage the plant itself.
To create a beautiful English garden use various plants and differing plant heights in one flower bed. Using plants of all the same kind or size, can result in a boring, and unoriginal garden.
If you have children, plant strawberries, especially everbearing strawberries, in your organic garden. A lot of children not only love to pick out their own fruit but they also love to learn about it as well.
If a test indicates that your soil is very alkaline, you can mix the dirt with used coffee grounds. Coffee grounds contain plenty of acid to get the soil back to a good balance. You will notice that your vegetables and greens will have a stronger taste.
If you want to maximize your success at organic gardening, you need to learn as much as you can about how to garden. Put this advice to work for you.