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Archive for April, 2009

Having a worm farm is the best alternative to having your own compost pile if you don’t have the room for one. They’re great for apartment or city dwellers. Worms create incredible fertilizer, aerate your soil and are super easy to look after. You just need to throw them your food scraps which will help them to multiply quickly and they’ll produce some beautiful soil for you to use in your organic garden or indoor plants.

A worm farm not only provides amazing fertilizer for your garden but the amount of garbage your family throws out can be reduced by almost 40 percent!

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There are a lot of misperceptions when it comes to making your own organic compost.

People often think that it will be a lot of    trouble and take up too much of their time. They also may believe that it will be a messy and smelly process. Due to these beliefs instead of learning how to create their own compost, they’ll go out and buy fertilizers and mulch from gardening stores.

Here’s a video with just a few of the benefits of making your own organic compost. You can find my five top reasons for composting below. Read the rest of this entry »

A good choice for organic gardeners who live in rainy climates is growing organic berries. Organic berries don’t need pesticides or chemical fertilizers to grow as they are pretty hardy.

Keep your choice of berries to the wild variety that are from a similar climate as your own country.

A lot of varieties that are cultivated have been hybridized. This is done so they produce larger crop sizes.

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There are an abundance of choices to use for your organic garden mulch. They vary in cost and availability dependning on where you live.

Bark mulches have a tendency to cost more unless you happen to reside close to a company that services trees.

Be sure to add a nitrogen fertilizer to your soil before putting down bark mulch if you are not going to compost it first.

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Organic seeds are produced from plants where no chemicals are used before or after harvest. You can find seeds to start your organic garden at many market places locally or look online for various organic agricultural companies that have the seeds you are looking for.

When starting your organic garden, it is important that you figure out exactly which organic seeds you want to grow.

Will you want a vegetable garden, vegan garden, fruit garden, flower or plant garden?

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