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Discover Home Gardening Articles, Tips & idea's for
USDA Zone's 3 - 10
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Welcome to Organic
Gardening
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Where ever you look it seems that people are
going green. They may try and drive using
electric cars, or use natural methods of
fertilizer or compost. There are even
gardeners who use only organic products and
tools in their garden. These organic
gardeners will need gardening supplies that
are a little different from that of your
ordinary gardener. Basically they will need
an organic gardening supply to continue with
their gardening efforts.
As an organic gardener you will of course
need a shovel, a spade and a spading fork to
dig the soil in your garden and prepare it
for planting. Then to take out the weeds and
the rocks that are littering your new bed
you need a hoe, a scuffle hoe with its
forward pointing blade that you scuffle in
front of you as you weed your garden, and
cut the weeds at the surface. A pry bar is
very good item even for organic gardeners to
use in their organic gardening supply. With
a pry bar you can dig up those rocks and
boulders that sometimes seem to litter the
surface of your garden.
There is always some pruning to be done in
the garden. Rose bushes need to be cut back,
especially if you want lots of big,
beautiful flowers. A pair of good quality
gardening shears or even a lopping shears
can cut those large prickly rose stems
cleanly without causing any disease causing
breaks.
These however are the conventional gardening
supplies that any gardener can use. For an
organic gardener there are a few different
items that need to be added to their organic
gardening supply. Whereas the normal
gardener has the choice of using chemical
enhanced fertilizers the organic gardener
can use bat guano or even worm castings.
With these organic fertilizers all that is
needed is a couple of applications per
month. Worm castings are the tunnels that
are created as worms move through the soil.
This movement not only breaks and loosens
the soil, it also adds fertilizing nutrients
to the soil. Organic fertilizers like these
help to increase the growth and health of
plants within your garden. Therefore they
are an essential organic gardening supply
item.
Gardening is said to be like painting. The
gardener’s canvas is the ground and the
paint brushes are the tools that gardeners
use. Whether you are a conventional gardener
or an organic gardener many of the tools
that you will use are the same. However the
organic gardener has special items in their
organic gardening supply. These items change
the looks, taste and smell of the plants
that benefit from them.
Organic gardening is 100% all natural and
great for the environment. Why don’t you
switch to organic gardening and see the
difference it makes to your life!
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By Kurt Kmetz,
Lawn & Ornamental Specialist:
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