Archive for July, 2010
Organic In The Garden – Easy Permaculture Practices For Every Home Garden
Permaculture is a system of completeness with Earth. It’s a way of planning, implementing and benefiting from the natural things available to us without causing negative impact on the environment…
July 30, 2010
Tags: Composting, environment, Permaculture, permaculture principles, small area permaculture Posted in: Permaculture 
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Organic In The Garden – Growing Young Green Leaves For The Perfect Salad
Growing your own organic salad greens is a great way of ensuring a regular supply of fresh green vegetables from your own home. Many salad leaves can be picked from as short as four weeks after germination and many varieties can be grown throughout the year.
July 28, 2010
Tags: bok choy, growing salad leaves, lettuce, organic salad greens, pea tendrils, rocket, salad vegetables, spinach, young salad leaves Posted in: Growing Organic Vegetables No Comments
Organic In The Garden – Removing Flatweed From Your Lawn Without Chemicals
Flatweed is a term used to describe a collective of weeds that are invasive in a domestic lawn. Although a flatweed is typically just that, a “Flat Weed” such as Hawkbit. I often refer to other weeds such as clover in a similar way…
July 28, 2010
Tags: chook manure, flatweed, organic flatweed removal, removing flatweed organically, weed suppressant Posted in: Organic Gardening No Comments
Organic In The Garden – Profits To Be Made From Starting Your Own Worm Farm
Worm farming is increasing in popularity around the world with many people realising not only the environmental benefits but also the nutrient value it has by providing worm castings for fertilising your garden…
July 27, 2010
Tags: backyard worm farming, profit from worm farming, vermicast, vermiculture, worm farming, worm farming business Posted in: Worm Farming No Comments
Organic In The Garden – Popular Raised Garden Beds And Their Uses
Raised garden beds are not a new idea but with the increasing popularity of zinculume and modulated timber units, more and more people are seeing the benefits of them, young and old…
July 27, 2010
Tags: commercial raised garden beds, garden beds, making raised garden beds, raised garden beds Posted in: Organic Gardening No Comments
Organic In The Garden – 5 Ingredients To Make Your Own Quality Potting Mixture
Commercially made potting mixtures are relatively cheap these days. They contain a unique blend of materials for holding plant roots and carry nutrients the plant needs for growth and sustenance. The downside is they often rely on inorganic materials and synthetic fertilisers…
July 25, 2010
Tags: how to make potting mix, making potting mix, organic potting mix, potting mix, potting mix ingredients Posted in: Organic materials No Comments
Organic in The Garden – Manure, Grass Hay and Lawn Clippings – 5 Steps to the Ultimate Compost
No organic garden is complete without a couple of compost heaps. It is the most valuable nutrient and soil conditioner for all aspects of a garden environment. From the backyard vegetable patch to the formal front yard with neatly clipped Box hedges and weeping ornamentals.
July 17, 2010
Tags: compost heap, composting grass hay, lawn clippings compost, manure in compost, ultimate compost Posted in: Composting No Comments
Organic In The Garden – Growing Carrots In Your Home Garden
Carrots are amongst the most popular vegetables to grow in the organic home vegetable garden. Carrots are perhaps so popular because of how easy they are to grow and the versatility they provide in the kitchen. Carrots can be used for Juicing, Boiling, Steaming, In Casseroles, Stews and Soups, Grated in Cakes, rissoles, on sandwiches, in salads or simply on their own as delicious carrot sticks…
July 13, 2010
Tags: growing organic carrots, home grown carrots, how to grow carrots, organic home vegetable garden, organic in the garden, thinning carrots Posted in: Growing Organic Vegetables No Comments
Organic In The Garden – 5 Easy Steps To Saving Your Tomato Seeds
Tomato seeds are coated in a pulp that protects the seed within the tomato. In nature birds will eat the flesh and seeds of the tomato and the action of the birds’ stomach will remove the coating from the seed and it will pass from the bird with its usual bodily functions…
July 13, 2010
Tags: collecting tomato seeds, fermenting tomato seeds, saving tomato seeds, tomato seeds Posted in: Seed Saving No Comments
Organic In The Garden – Building A Soil For Sustainable Future Crops
Organic Gardening and farming builds on the asset the soil naturally gives us as a growing medium by supporting soil organisms and bacteria which naturally provide the nutrients and sustainable growth benefits plants need for natural growth…
July 12, 2010
Tags: beneficial soil bacteria, earth worms, organic, organic farming, Organic Gardening, sustainable agriculture, sustainable farming, swales Posted in: Organic Gardening No Comments
