Go Green With Organic Home Gardening
It’s about time people are coming around. Environmental stressors are killing our planet and you need to do your part through organic gardening.
Jenny and I are organic gardeners for health reasons, plus we save money as well which rocks in these hard times.
Sadly there are still far more destroying Mother Earth than helping her today, so let’s go over a few things that may get you ready for going green through organic gardening.
So what is organic gardening? Organic gardening is all to do with natural products for your garden and yard that don’t compromise the health of our soil and ourselves. It’s about using natural methods for fertilizers as well as pest control.
Fertilizer That Produce NOT Poison
We have to be fed or we will starve to death yet there are so many foods that are not healthy. Well fertilizer is the same thing to your plants and is how you get your plants to have healthy leaves, roots and produce. What do your plants need from fertilizer?
- Nitrogen
- Phosphorus
- Potassium
Those 3 things are what your plants require, in specific doses, in order to produce a strong healthy plant. You may not find natural sources that include all three in the right amounts so for this reason you will need to combine sources together.
What Are Organic Fertilizers?
Fish Emulsion – Mmmm, mushed up rotting fish. Maybe not for me but it works and the odour dissipates after a few days and is full of high concentrations of nitrogen needed for getting started early spring.
Blood Meal – this powdered fertilizer is made from dried blood from cattle slaughterhouses – it is also high in nitrogen.
Chicken Droppings – Another things that does’t sound too appetizing unless you’re a plant but not to worry this is made to be odourless.
Control Pests Organically
Organic gardening takes a little extra time but your grand kids as well as Mother Nature will thank you for that time.
You can invite visitors to your yard to assist with pest control. No, not your neighbour, but maybe some bird and bugs will do the trick. You’ll be blown away by how much Lady bugs can help. We have even thought about putting a bat house or two on our property to keep down the mosquito population.
Another route to go is to grow native plants that tend to be a little hardier in our parts and have had for ever to build resistance to bugs and diseases. I love my gardens and spend time looking for problems that I can catch early and illuminate by manually picking and destroying harmful bugs and diseased leaves.
When family and friends come to our yard to smell the flowers I don’t have to worry if they are sucking in poisons I have sprayed to make the,m so beautiful because I don’t use them. My family and friends are safe smelling our roses.
Take pride in your gardens and yard by not using harmful sprays or fertilizers and you may just live longer and healthier, so you will be around to enjoy those grand kids, enjoying the beauty in your back yard.
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Being an organic gardener doesn’t require a huge amount of space. Even living in an apartment with a small patio or porch you can accomplish container and small space gardening to grow your organic produce.
Hi Amy
My first little garden, way back in the 70s was on a balcony in Mississauga Ontario. I start growing tomatoes on my 11th floor windowsill and then out on the balcony. That was my first bachelor apartment and I was growing tomatoes.