Organic Gardening: Natural Fertilizers/Plant Foods

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Organic Gardening: Natural Fertilizers/Plant Foods

Fertilizing an organic garden is easier than most people think. Just as you can improve the flavor of vegetables by planting certain plants together, and you can help repel common pests, insects and diseases by planting certain plants together, you can also fertilize your garden naturally using specific plants too.

One of the best fertilizers you can use in a garden of course, is compost. And compost is made with all natural, organic materials such as grass clippings, shredded leaves, sawdust, fireplace ash, and even shredded newspapers. You can also toss in fruit and vegetable matter from the kitchen to help your compost become even more rich and fertile for use in any area of your garden.

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Adding Pinks & Reds to Your Flower Garden

Adding Pinks & Reds to Your Flower Garden

No garden ever seems quite complete if it doesn’t have some shade of red or pink flowers blooming in it. It’s quite possible that red and pink are the most popular shades of flowers actually, and with good reason. There are hundreds of plants which create flower blooms in these shades, and when you have large groups of red or pink in your garden, you can’t help but have it noticed around the neighborhood.

Roses of course are possibly one of the most favorite flowers to grow in shades of red or pink, and they can of course be grown as bushes and shrubs, or you can choose to grow climbing rose vines or wild roses and miniature roses too.

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Many Different Kinds of Garden Mulch

Many Different Kinds of Garden Mulch

Using mulch for new or existing plantings is a good habit to get in to. Mulch will help protect new plants from harsh cold or heat, and this protects the roots from damage while the plants are still young and becoming established. Mulch also helps protect your garden plantings from drying out too quickly, plus it can help prevent weed growth too.

There are many different types of mulch that can be used in your gardens. Some types of mulch will naturally degrade and add vital nutrients back into the soil, while others are designed to continue protecting your plants for years without change.

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Environmental Friendly Gardening

Environmental Friendly Gardening

One of the reasons gardening has started to become so popular in recent years is because people are becoming more aware of problems with our environment. And many are concerned with the overuse of harsh chemicals, pesticides, and other things which are harmful not only to the environment, but to human beings as well.

So not only is gardening becoming popular by itself, but “green” gardening - or environmentally friendly gardening - is one of the primary goals for most hobby and home gardeners.

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Compost Material Ideas

Compost Material Ideas

Many people new to gardening or composting often aren’t sure exactly what they should put into their compost piles or bins. Once they learn some of the basics though, they find it’s much easier to create rich compost for their gardens than they may have first suspected. So let’s take a look at some of the best items to include in your own compost piles or bins.

Kitchen Scraps
Anything natural that you use in the kitchen makes for wonderful additions to the compost pile. It’s important that you only toss natural items into the compost pile though. You should never put meat into a compost bin for instance, or things such as milk, plastic, and tinfoil.
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Raised Beds Part 2

Raised Beds Part 2

Once you have a weed barrier in place, then you simply need to build your garden bed structure. You can use any number of materials to create this structure, because essentially you’re creating a retaining wall for your new garden.

Bricks are a popular choice, as is stone, hard molded plastics, and wood. Which ever material you choose to use, you’ll put it together into a frame like assembly. Your frame can be square, round, rectangular, or fluid. In fact, the shape you choose to create for your garden bed is only limited by your imagination and the space you’ve chosen to create it.

Once you have the garden bed frame created, you’ll then need to start filling it. Depending on the area you’ve placed the bed, you might want to lay an inch or two of rock or pebble at the bottom to help encourage proper drainage of the bed during wet seasons.

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This is particularly important if you’d laid down a heavy sheet of plastic for your weed barrier, because the ground beneath may not be an available drainage option for quite some time, since the plastic will act as a seal.
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Compost Bins & Piles

Compost Bins & Piles

Whether you’re planning to create an organic vegetable garden or you simply want an excellent source of nutrient rich soil for your flower beds, creating compost is the way to go. There are a variety of ways to create compost though, and some of them take longer than others.

Compost is made naturally by organic materials breaking down and decomposing. And decomposition takes time. The larger your materials are when you add them to the compost pile are, the longer they will take to break down naturally. So one of the easiest things you can do to help your compost be fully ready faster, is to break the materials down a bit before you add them to your pile.

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