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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.

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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 »

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”.

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