You are ready to plant your organic garden. What perfect timing! Read on for some helpful tips on how to grow a beautiful organic garden.
The quick and drastic change in the weather conditions can shock your plants and cause them to die. It’s important that you gradually change temperate conditions over time, so that your plants can adjust. On the first day, place them in the sun outside for only an hour or so. Then over the next week, gradually increase the time they are in their new habitat. At week’s end, the plants should be welcoming of their new home.
Make sure your soil is healthy enough before you start planting anything. Have a soil analysis completed so you can know what you need to add to have soil which will fully support your garden. A Cooperative Extension office can provide you with this service, saving you learning on your own by trial and error.
Don’t cut your grass too short! If you let your grass keep some height after mowing, it will be able to absorb more sun and moisture resulting in a lusher, greener lawn. Leaving the grass short makes it more prone to drying out, which leaves your lawn look really brown and yucky.
Consider planting evergreens in your garden that produce berries. This will keep your garden colorful, even during those months when other plants are not growing. These plants can help you get some color during the winter months: Winterberry, Common Snowberry, American Holly, and American Cranberrybush.
Do not use broad-spectrum pesticides within your garden. These kinds of pesticides kill the helpful insects that destroy the pests. Bugs that provide a benefit to your garden are more easily killed by these broad-spectrum pesticides, you may simply end up with a bigger pest problem. This can cause you to use an additional amount of pesticides in order to attempt to fix this problem.
Plant with the colors of autumn in mind. That doesn’t have to be it though. The brightest season of the year when it comes to foliage is fall. Maple trees produce yellow and red leaves, just like Beech and Dogwood trees. Some very good shrubs to choose are barberry, hydrangea, and cotoneaster, which is a member of the rose family.
In the middle of the day the vegetables have softened, which means they are easily damaged. See to it that you cut their connection to the vine as opposed to twisting them, because twisting could hurt the plant.
Go slowly as you plant the seeds. Start by getting the soil good and moist. Your seeds should be spaced out evenly so they aren’t overcrowded. This will ensure that they can grow. Bury your seeds about three times deeper than the size that they are. Some seeds need some light to grow, and therefore shouldn’t be buried.
You should now have the basic knowledge you need to start an organic garden. You are now the expert, even if you didn’t think so before. The above tips should help you begin growing an organic garden that is beautiful and healthy.
