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How to Prepare an Organic Vegetable Garden
December 6, 2008
One of the cost-saving ways of gardening is organic vegetable gardening, which the farmers are now becoming involved in, as they find that the crop yield remains unaltered. If you want to practice this at dwelling, you have to know the rules of organic vegetable gardening first. Foremost, remember that organic vegetable gardening is done without using any pest or insect repellant, synthetic fertilizers or external nutrients. Nature provides all that you need to do this with A couple of basic contributions, water and sunshine. Unfortunately these can never be made by artificial means, you have to find the ideal place for it and provide right kind of water drainage facilities.
Over and above sunlight and water you could encourage plant growth by using items like compost heap made from waste food, chipped portion of barks, garden compost, moulds from fallen leaves and natural fertilizer. Mix all these things together and spread it all over your garden area. Numerous people abhor the idea of animal fertilizer, but do not worry, as you could always buy it from the store. Obtain chickens and let them roam unhindered in the garden. Some individuals prefer to use dead carcasses of animals or meat products - for this, leave them in the trash can, till maggots appear and then use it as a fertilizer.
Another helpful creature is the earthworm because it digs deep into the ground and aerates the soil bringing various nutrients to the surface which also provides better water drainage. The casting, which these creepy crawlies leave behind, are enriched in nitrogen phosphorus and potassium, of course, these can also be purchased. Organic vegetable gardening is tough sometimes since you have to deal with undesirable guests - some of these pests include armyworms, crickets, gypsy moth caterpillars, slugs and squash bugs. people usually use fertilizers to destroy these, but with the organic way of doing things, you merely deploy a toad who eats nearly everything. If you have caterpillars or spiders lurking in the garden, get a bird because these are not in the toad’s diet.
It is not required that you go to the pet store to buy the toads or birds, they would become regular visitors to your garden, furnished you keep the surroundings perfect for them to come. You can put up a bird house or a small pool and within days, you will have some new residents protecting your garden. A couple of other great garden guardians are preying mantis and ladybird beetles as both of them are very territory conscious and any intruder would soon get killed.
Vegetables can also be protected by plants. For instance, the rosemary, sage or thyme is an efficient deterrent against butterflies and Marigolds are effective against nematodes. Even when nature offers so many flora and fauna for protecting your garden, crop rotation is still seen the best manner for retaining soil fertility, when it is about organic vegetable gardening. Keep on rotating the type of vegetable you have harvested in one season with another and then come back to the initial vegetable. Come to think of it, rules of organic gardening are rather simple. Only practicing it for some time, can make you better.
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