One of the best ways to improve your diet and make it healthier is to start and maintain an organic garden. For best results, however, you need to put in the right amount of effort. This probably has you wondering where to start your own garden.
Cover the fences and walls with climbers. These climbing plants will help beautify an old fence, and they are fast workers too. They can grow through shrubs and trees, or even cover an arbor. A number of climbers need to be attached to a support, but others just take care of their own attachments via tendrils and stems that twine. Honeysuckle and jasmine are very beautiful varieties of such climbers.
If you are horticulture, be wary of stink bugs in your garden, especially in the autumn. They like to feast on all kinds of fruits, as well as peppers, tomatoes, and beans. If left unattended, your garden could be ravaged by these bugs, so you need to proactively keep their population under control.
Regular weeding is essential to the health of any garden. Weeds can be extremely detrimental to your garden. A simple tool that is useful in removing weeds is white vinegar. That’s right, you have safe way to get rid of weeds right there in your kitchen cabinet. If you’re annoyed with pulling up weeds manually, douse them with a white vinegar solution.
Consider growing wheat grass or cat grass near the plants your cat enjoys eating. Another option is to protect your plants by lacing them with offensive entities, such as peels from citrus fruit or even moth balls from your closet.
It is possible to use natural materials as well as other plants to help keep pests away from your garden. Forming a border around your vegetable garden with marigolds or onions are ideal for repelling slugs. Wood ash around your tree will help you keep pests away as well. With these natural methods, there is no need to purchase expensive, harsh pesticides.
If you are going for a British feel with your garden, then vary the heights of your plants. You should avoid using plants of the same height so that your flower bed doesn’t look flat and uniform.
If you like the concept of organic horticulture, then why not take it one step further by leaving some of your land undeveloped for the area’s wildlife? This can be a good area for the types of insects that pollinate plants. It can also be a sanctuary for birds, which will help some plants thrive. This can greatly improve the production of your organic garden.
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You should always take spacing into account when placing plants in your organic garden. You can underestimate how much space you need when they are growing. You will also need to ensure that you allow ample space around full-grown plants for air circulation. Plan your organic garden while keeping this in mind, and space your seeds accordingly, when planting.
In conclusion, creating and maintaining an organic garden requires hard work, effort and research. After you have begun to grow the garden, it is true that you need to maintain it to get the best possible results. If you keep all these suggestions in mind, you have taken the right steps towards becoming a successful organic gardener.
Originally posted 2013-12-01 17:46:39.
