Organic gardening is a rewarding hobby that anyone can enjoy, as long as they know what they’re doing. However, for someone who does not have any experience with gardening, the thought of starting, or maintaining, a garden can be intimidating. How then should someone who does not have any experience start getting involved with organic gardening? If so, keep reading. You are only minutes away from becoming a better gardener.
Consider planting strawberries, especially ones that are everbearing, for your garden if you have small children. Children will be more willing to help you if they can pluck their own fruit from the garden.
It is easy to quickly prepare your perennial garden ground. You just need to use your garden spade for slicing underneath the turf, then flip it, and finally spread about three or four inch deep piles of wood chips. Let the area sit for a couple weeks, then begin digging into it and planting your new perennials.
Try using coffee grounds on the soil. Coffee grounds have a lot of nutrients that plants can use. Nitrogen is a nutrient that will help your plants grow taller and bloom faster, so use those coffee grounds, extra compost, or diluted urea to make this happen.
You can stop mud from being tracked into your house by covering your dirty gardening shoes with plastic bags. When you do this, your flow stays going, and you can just get right back out to your garden and finish quick.
To be as efficient as possible in the garden, always have your tools handy. Use a large bucket, or wear rugged pants with several pockets. Have shears, a trowel, gloves and other commonly used garden tools portable and easy to access.
As this article stated, an organic garden is a great way to provide healthy food for your family, but you need to know which types of plants to grow. Use what you learned above to help your whole family prosper with great nutritional food that you grow in your very own organic garden.
