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Archive for April, 2009

Organic tomato gardening is very popular. You will hardly find any vegetable (or fruit) garden without tomatoes. They’re versatile; you can eat them with so many different foods, from salads and pasta to sandwiches and sauces. Many people enjoy their taste and the pride it brings when they bite into their self-grown organic tomato.

If this is your first time organic tomato gardening, you will need to know how it’s properly done, so that your tomato garden is fruitful.

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When you begin organic vegetable gardening the first step is to consider the size and location of the garden.

Using organic gardening fertilizer is the key to having a pure garden. There are different types of natural fertilizers that you can use; man-made or you can buy it from your local gardening store.

Since many organic fertilizers are slow-working, it is best to mix them in with your soil three weeks before you begin planting your organic garden. This will thoroughly prepare the soil for seeding or transplants.

Make sure to rid clumps of unrotted organic materials, so that they won’t interfere with the operation of seeding. It can result in nutrient deficiency and sometimes soil-borne diseases that can cause “damping-off” of young seedlings. Read the rest of this entry »

There are various organic gardening pest control methods that you can use to help rid your garden of the different types of pests that may damage it. Which pest control method you use will depend on the type of pest you are trying to rid your garden of.

If you have different sized animals attacking your organic garden, but don’t want to harm them, you can use Havahart Traps. These are pest control products used for live-trapping animals. You can buy different sizes to meet the needs of your animal pest. They are easy to set up and safe for you and your children to be around (even your own animal pet friends). They work great!

If your pest problem is really big, such as deer, you will need a different form of organic gardening pest control.

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The organic gardening beetle is also known as the eyed click beetle. It has two large false eyespots on its exoskeleton and when it feels threatened; it flips onto its back and clicks its thorax, causing it to jump up into the air a couple of inches. It keeps doing this acrobatic move until it feels safe. Organic gardeners should not fear the eyed click beetle. It poses no harm to humans or their organic gardens.

Instead, the organic gardening beetle is more interested in eating larvae of wireworms. The eyed click beetle spends most of its time in rotted stumps and logs.

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