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Plant ever-bearing strawberries for your children. Children will be much more willing to help you if they can pluck their own fruit from the garden.
Have plastic bags on hand so that you can put over your muddy gardening shoes if they are muddy.
Coffee grounds are a great mixed in with your soil.Coffee has a lot of essential nutrients to the soil that will benefit your plants.
Plant Material
Your compost pile should contain green plant materials and dried ones in equal amounts. Green plant material can include old flowers, veggie and fruit waste, spent flowers, weeds, and grass clippings. Dried plant material consists of sawdust, shredded paper, shredded paper, straw, and dried and cut-up woody material. Avoid using ashes, meat, charcoal and diseased plants in your compost.
When maintaining your organic garden, lightly brush over them using your hand up to twice a day. It sounds weird, but there is actually proven research that shows this helps the plants grow.
Treated Wood
Create raised beds with stone, bricks or untreated wood. Choose wood that is naturally resistant to rot and does not contain any chemicals. Some great choices to choose from are cedar, cedar and cypress. In a veggie garden, avoid using treated wood to enclose or demarcate different sections of your vegetable garden. If you have some space treated wood, you can use plastic liners, or a different barrier, be sure to line it with some type of barrier like plastic sheeting.
Adjust your watering to the season and current climate.For instance, if you are in a warm and humid climate, humid climate watering the leaves can cause leaf fungus.
Add mulch to your soil healthy.A thick layer of mulch can protect the soil underneath it. Mulch will keep the soil is kept cool on hot days and protect your roots. It will also stop the soil from losing it’s moisture longer by reducing the evaporation rate. It is also very good at controlling unwanted weeds.
Organic Gardening
Use these tips and think about some ideas of your own. Organic gardening can become a part of your life. This article is just the tip of the ice-berg when it comes to organic gardening information.