Organic Gardening Tips and Ideas

Many people who live in an urban setting think that they cannot take advantage of the benefits of having their own vegetable garden due to space concerns. All it requires is a little planning and creativeness to have the same types of healthy organic vegetables your friends who live in the suburbs grow.

The use of bark as a soil amendment is best used when plants are mature and don’t require allot of water retention in the soil. There are two basic types of bark mulch that are most commonly used in mulch, shredded and chunk.

Not all insects in your garden are harmful. In reality just 10% of the all the insects in your garden may cause harm. The remaining helps in garden growth and are essential in maintaining biodiversity to keep the plant life healthy. Beneficial insects as a primary form of management for pest control in the garden is utilized by all types of growers, from the home gardener, greenhouse grower to the professional gardener. It is one of the oldest and most successful methods of pest control.

There are may great rewards to be had by double digging your garden beds. It is a very labor intensive method of improving the gardens soil structure. It involves the improvement of the first 2 feet of the gardens soil.

Using a solar mulch to cover the planting soil will increase the soils temperature up to 8-10 degrees to about a depth of 3-inches. These types of mulches also help suppress weed growth.

Many people have a misunderstanding about some of the things you can put into your organic gardening compost. Coffee grounds, teabags or even loose tea, and eggshells are quite acceptable to put into your organic compost.

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