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Top Five Reasons For Making Your Own Organic Compost
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 »
Organic Garden Mulch: Which Is Best?
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 Indoor Gardening
With organic indoor gardening you are doing the same thing inside your home or greenhouse as you would with your outdoor organic garden. Not all plants are able to grow inside, so it is important to do research on the plant seeds you intend to grow before you begin your indoor garden.
One type of plant that you can grow indoors (and is highly recommended to begin growing them indoors anyway) are tomatoes.
Organic Gardening Tips
There are many organic gardening tips that you can use during the process of growing your vegetable, fruit, vegan or plant garden.
For starters, you can use mulch on your flowerbed and trees, with 3 inches of organic material. Doing this will help conserve water and add humus and nutrients to your soil. It will also discourage weeds from popping up in your organic garden.
If you are growing plants that love acid, thickly use mulch layered with pine needles during the fall season. While the pine needles decompose, they will deposit acid contained within them into the soil.
Build an Organic Gardening Compost Pile
Organic gardening compost is matter that consists of natural decaying substances like grass clippings, fallen leaves and rotting vegetables (from the kitchen). When composting, it is said that you should feed the soil, not the plants. The plants are able to take care of themselves; they get their nutrients from the soil, so it is essential that you provide the soil with the proper nutrients for the plants to consume.
Just about any organic material can be used for a compost pile, which needs a proper ratio of carbon-rich materials or “browns” and natural nitrogen-rich materials or “greens”.
