The popularity of holistic living is increasing in the wake of the growth of organic trends. Anyone living this kind of life usually has to organically grow their own herbs and plants to maintain their way of living. If you are interested in growing plants, flowers and vegetables without the use of harmful pesticides and fertilizers, keep reading.
Sod should be laid correctly. Before you lay the sod, the soil has to be prepared. Break the soil into fine tilth and make sure you remove any weeds as well. Flatten your soil and make it slightly compact. Thoroughly moisten the soil. Lay the sod down in alternated rows, keeping the joints set off from one another. Pat your sod to form an even and flat surface, fill any gaps with some soil. Sod must be watered every day for about two weeks, and then it will have rooted and be completely ready to be walked on.
If you work with clay soil, you have probably found using a shovel very frustrating and exhausting. One way to get around this problem is to coat the shovel with wax. Use a clean cloth to spread the wax evenly. The wax prevents the clay from sticking to the shovel, and stops rust from forming.
Get a slug-proof variety of perennials. These mollusks are capable of consuming an entire garden full of flowers in a single night. These pests normally go after plants with thin little leaves and plants that have yet to fully mature. You can discourage snails and slugs from eating your perennials by choosing plants with tougher or distasteful foliage. These varieties include achillea, helleborus, heuchera, euphorbia, and campanula.
Having healthy soil in your garden is your number one defense against pests! Healthy plants grown in robust and enriched soil have an advantage in fighting pest infestation. To give your garden the best chance of yielding the healthiest plants, start with a high-quality soil that has fewer chemicals which over time will accumulate salts.
Use both biennials and annuals to add color to your flower bed. Using a variety of flowers allows your flower garden to have a different look each season. In addition, they work well as gap fillers between other areas, as long as those areas receive plenty of sunlight. You should get varieties such as cosmos, petunia, rudbeckia, hollyhock, sunflowers or marigold.
When winter arrives, you could save some plants by placing them inside your house. Think about saving your resistant plants or the expensive ones. Carefully loosen the dirt around the roots, then transfer the plant into a pot filled with the same soil.
Be sure to do some weeding on a regular basis. Those nasty weeds can turn your beautiful garden into a scruffy version of its former self. White vinegar has been known to kill weeds quickly. The acid in white vinegar kills weeds. You may also be using plants that need that very same acid. If you don’t want to take the time to remove the weeds by hand, simply spray them with a white vinegar solution.
Protect your deciduous shrubs which are tender. If you’ve got tender shrubs which are potted, you need to protect them from cold weather. Tie the tops tightly together, and cover the wigwam with a sheet or blanket draped loosely over it. People sometimes use plastic to wrap their plants, but plastic can cause the plants to rot because it impedes air circulation.
Your organic gardening efforts will get easier as you pick up more and more tips and techniques about this activity. The tips in this article are just a jumping off point for you.
Originally posted 2014-05-13 06:54:12.
