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What do i need to start an organic veg garden?
By admin | April 4, 2010
Topics: Organic Gardening | 9 Comments »
April 4th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
In addition to the compost pile, I also add leaves, grass clippings, etc to my garden once it’s done producing. Instead of removing the garden plants once they are done, just mow over them a few times with a mulcher mower. Till everything under real good to mix everything in. I do that every fall and come spring I don’t even have to till anything. Just plant. I also ‘plant’ my kitchen scraps directly in the garden in different spots every time. Just push the shovel in, rock it forward, drop the kitchen waste in and pull the shovel out. I have flower beds around most of my trees and instead of adding compost all the time,I just rake the leaves/grass clippings into 3′ piles around my trees every fall. It breaks down over the winter and the perennials pop up in the spring right thru it. Only actually add compost every few years when I actually have to dig the perennials out and divide them.
Just some ideas you can do in addition to the basic compost pile. As you can tell, I’m a strictly organic gardener and e1 comes ‘shopping’ in my garden instead of the store when it’s producing.
btw…I only mow my yard using mulcher mowers and never fertilize. My neighors are constantly asking what I put on my lawn/in my garden/flower beds to make them so lush. Now you know as well.
April 4th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
organic means no chemicals. Just plant your garden with organic soil, and do not use chemicals or pesticides
April 4th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
We created a backyard "kitchen garden" some 7 years ago and it is a thriving, progressing project, which brings good food to our table and satisfaction to our heart.
We did raised beds, double digging the soil…..check Organic Gardening Magazine online for more info on this. We continue to replenish the soil always with leaves, mulch, nitrogen rich legumne crops which are turned into the soil to enrich it, peat moss, straw, kitchen veggie scrapes, mushroom compost, and seasoned manure.
We rotate crops to cut down on insect and disease problems and when we need something to discourage pests, we use a product from Garden’s Alive, a wonderful source for organic pesticides, insecticides, and fertilizers.
This is a wonderful endeavor, so JUST DO IT! So much to read and learn on the web, so read, read, and read, before you even get that shovel out.
April 4th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
seeds, couple of badgers would be useful too, keep your slaves in line
April 4th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
a brown loaf…and a tin of beans…
April 4th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
Just plant your veg or whatever and don’t add any pesticides, that would be organic.
April 4th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
a garden
April 4th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
Organic soil is always a good start.
April 4th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
That depends on whether or not the veggies are for your own use or are going to be for sale to the public, For the later you have to have accreditation from the Dept of Agriculture. The soil you intend to plant in must be chemical free for a period of time before it can be Certified Organic. There would have to be tests made on your soil to determine this.
If for your own use, all you need to do is only use organic fertilizers, Environment friendly pest and disease control. To be organic, you cannot use anything that has Chemicals of any kind.