Due to the fact that consuming organic foods is gaining popularity, choosing to live a holistic lifestyle is also becoming more prevalent. People who want to develop a more environmentally friendly attitude may not know where to start to reap the benefits of organic horticulture. Read up on some great organic tips below.
Choose the varieties of plants that will produce a higher yield. A hybrid designed for your weather, and resistant to local diseases, will give a better yield than non-hybrids.
Starting seedlings in pots before planting in your garden is a smart idea. This raises the chances of the plants growing until adulthood. This method also reduces the waiting time between plantings. Once the fully matured plants are removed, the seedlings can be planted.
Don’t cut your grass down by the soil when you run the mower. If you leave your grass kind of high, your roots will be deeper and your lawn will be stronger and not dry out. The shorter the grass is, the shorter the roots are, which leads to a dry lawn.
You must protect tender, deciduous shrubs. Cold weather significantly affects these plants, especially if they are in pots. Try to tie the tops all together and cover them with a sheet, large piece of cloth, or blanket. This method is superior to covering plants in plastic, because air can freely circulate, which prevents rotting.
Get a wheelbarrow and a kneeling stool to work in your garden. Spending too much time on the ground working can be quite hard on your knees, and a gardening stool can help alleviate this, plus make things more comfortable for you. You often need to move large objects from place to place, so it’s a good idea to have a sturdy, well-balanced wheelbarrow.
Spectrum Pesticides
Broad-spectrum pesticides should be avoided in your garden. While broad-spectrum pesticides will kill most pests, they will also kill helpful insects. Useful insects are more sensitive to these pesticides than the pests, so by killing them, you could be growing your pest population. If you respond to the growing pest problem with more broad-spectrum pesticide, you only continue the harmful cycle.
Heather can bring helpful critters into your garden. Bees will go straight for these plants in the spring. Beds of heather are largely undisturbed and make a perfect living space for spiders, beetles and a variety of other beneficial tenants. Because of this, you should put on a pair of gloves when it’s time to prune the heather.
As you gain more information and tricks, you will find that gardening will become very simple for you to accomplish, and once you know how to garden overall, then organic horticulture won’t be a hard task to learn at all. Don’t forget that this advice is just the beginning.
Originally posted 2013-10-17 05:29:33.
