Organic Gardening Articles

1). Increase Curb Appeal With Flowering Shrubs and Bushes By : Eileen Melgar
If you want to create a home with more curb appeal or, simply add color to the side or back property, you have many excellent options with flowering bushes. Depending on the type of bush you choose, you will end up with gorgeous blooms at varying times of year, giving your home a new, fresh, and exciting look. Adding a bush with vibrant red, yellow, or purple blooms will completely transform the appearance of your home, making it more inviting.
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2). Organically Speaking... By : D Dean Hall
Organically Speaking...
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3). Keeping Soil Healthy By : Sintilia Miecevole
Soil is a composition of weather-beaten rock, minerals, decayed plant materials and other organic ingredients. All this takes a long time to develop, but can be damaged by our action or neglect in a single season. Plants can obtain nutrients from the soil using their roots and change them to usable materials to grow new roots, leaves and flowers. All gardeners are to be custodians of the soil, taking the time to replace food and other elements as they are used.
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4). Hay! Make Good Mulch. By : Jodi Reichenberger
Hay! Make Good Mulch.
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5). The Benefits of Growing Fruits and Vegetables Organically By : nina
Organic gardening is the way of growing vegetables and fruits with the use of things only found in nature. Then, nature does most of the work for you. There are many benefits of growing your own fruits and vegetables with this way. Growing them organically is also easy and you just need to learn some general principles. Here are the benefits of organic gardening: 1.
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6). The Joys Of Indoor Gardening By : Susan Jan
Indoor gardening, or gardening that is done indoors as in offices and residences, has become a popular hobby. Other than its aesthetic appeal, it also provides health benefits such as purification of air.
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7). Using Plants To Make Us Happier By : Justin Brown
If we fill our time taking care of plants we can get rid of stress, it is a scientifically proved thing. Taking care of our green friends (the ones with leaves not Aliens!) we will discover new hidden sides of our personality and will get to know better how to love and care for others, firstly because a plant that we won’t care for will die for sure.
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8). Is Your Garden Prepped to Survive Winter and Flourish Next Spring? By : Kenny Point
Fall is the perfect time to perform a simple garden tune-up that will energize the garden next spring. Here are a few easy techniques to make your vegetable garden healthier and more productive than ever.
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9). Integrated Pest Management By : Jodi Reichenberger
Integrated Pest Management
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10). The Organic Gardener By : Henry Homeyer
It’s not always easy to be an organic gardener. Even committed organic gardeners sometimes long to spray herbicide on goutweed or pesky poison ivy. When Japanese beetles or rose chafers arrive in throngs just before your garden party, you may suffer an urge for the good old days — the time before you understood that spraying an insecticide would kill beneficial bugs along with the bad, aggravating your pest problems.
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11). Use Floating Row Covers to Grow Better Cucumbers Without Spraying By : Terry Cunning
Cucumbers are easy to grow in a home garden except for one problem. They are especially susceptible to one disease. Perhaps you've seen it in your own garden. You have planted a row of seeds and they have sprouted nicely and have grown into long vines that have spread out over the garden and turned themselves into a big cucumber patch. You are beginning to anticipate having a bountiful harvest of cucumbers for salads and maybe even pickles.
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12). The Secret To Healthier Plants? Let’s Ask My Grandfather. By : Steve Boulden
My Grandfather was an old school farmer from way back who depended on his crops for his living. He, like farmers then and now, knew that the secret to optimum yield and plant health begins in the soil. If the soil was just right and other conditions were favorable, his yields were higher and he could make a descent living that would get his family through the rest of the year.
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13). Companion Planting By : Gwen Nyhus Stewart
Companion plantings of some kind have been practiced throughout agricultural history. Some of the earliest written documents on gardening discuss these relationships. Early settlers discovered American First Nations people were using an interplanting scheme of corn-bean-squash that balanced the requirements of each crop for light, water, and nutrients.
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14). A Waste of Packaged Gold By : L.Beauley
8:59 PM 4/28/2006 As we drove by the plush residential homes, some recently covered with a fresh coating of paint and with the variously landscaped yards displaying their beautiful spired shrubs, flowering gardens and well watered green lawns, it could not be helped but to notice the evenly placed lawn bags filled to the brim with yard waste, just waiting to be carried away by the scheduled garbage pickup.
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15). Whole Grains By : Jodi Reichenberger
Whole Grains
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16). Organic Body Products – Even Cleopatra Used One By : Polly Priester
Hello all you wonderful people out there. Do any of you know anything about organic body care? Do any of you use organic body products? I happen to know of some very famous people who did. Even the beautiful Cleopatra used organic products. She would take her bath in a tub of milk in order to relax and keep her skin soft. In the 1800’s Miss Josephine, Emperor Napoleon’s ex-wife, busied herself with organic gardening.
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17). Gardening Transforms Your Home Into A Scene Of Breath-Taking Beauty By : Rose Mary
Gardening is a great hobby which has many benefits. Many people find it fun, enriching and rewarding. It provides us an opportunity to express our imagination and creativity. Start gardening today.
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18). The Peroxide Phenomenon-Gardening Miracle By : Paul Tukey
He unabashedly begins his stories in newspapers, magazines and online by proclaiming, “This will be the most phenomenal article you will ever read.” He claims to have cured his own cancer, to have removed his own warts and to be the most robust 82-year-old on the planet — ever since he discovered the miracle solution known as hydrogen peroxide. Bill Munro immediately grabbed my attention with a story titled “Gardening with H2O2” in Acres U.
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19). Gardening – Is This Your Favorite Past Time? By : NamSing Then
Gardening is a pastime activity and also the art and craft of growing plants, with a goal of creating a beautiful environment. Gardening most often takes place inside one’s residence. Choosing the place: Choose a place closer to your home. For flower gardens, choose a place close to the door or with a good view from a favorite window where you'll see and enjoy it often.
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20). The Weekend Gardener and Compost By : James Paul
Composting should be a major part of every weekend gardeners weekend routine.
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21). An Indoor Garden System Produces Marvelous Plants By : Christopher Jay
There are interesting ways to bring life to your home besides the family and friends who gather there. An aquarium chock full of lively fish swimming about add motion yet tranquility to the atmosphere of a home. An indoor garden system is another way of adding life to the atmosphere of a home.
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22). Starting a Container Garden By : Eileen Melgar
Container gardens are the ideal solution for people who enjoy gardening but simply have little to no space. With this type of garden, you have the opportunity to plant a wonderful selection of vegetables and flowers, but instead of using land outside, you use small containers. Obviously, for individuals living in apartments, city dwellers, or homes without outside yard space where only a small balcony or patio is available, a container garden makes perfect sense.
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23). How to Coax Fresh Vegetables From the Garden All Winter Long By : KennyP
Autumn typically signals the end of home grown vegetables from the garden, but with a little ingenuity you can harvest garden fresh produce well into the winter months. My Central Pennsylvania garden continues to supply fresh vegetables during the fall and winter when most gardeners in my growing region are content to dream about next summer’s bounty.
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24). Maintaining Your Roses By : Julia Robertson
While it is true that you will spend more time on rose maintenance than most other plants, the care you give them during the growing season can be done easily while simply enjoying the blooms. Many people choose not to grow roses because they believe that they entail too much work. Following these simple steps will make your roses beautiful and keep the plants healthy.
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25). Create a Small ‘No – Dig’ plot By : Julie Williams
This method of vegetable gardening is what I prefer. As you might have guessed, it doesn't involve digging. This method is particularly suited to older people or people with physical disabilities. But I just prefer it because I think it’s better for the soil. When soil is turned over it destroys the soil structure. When you create a no-dig plot you are not disturbing the topsoil at all, this means that the soil microbes, worms and creatures can continue doing what they do best in your garden.
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