Archive for the ‘Organic Gardening’ Category
Organic In The Garden – Starting A New Vegetable Garden From Scratch
When I first buy or move into a new home, one of the first things I work out is planning the Vegetable garden will go. This may be one specific area set-aside for your vegetable garden or several spots scattered around the yard…
August 2, 2010
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Organic in The Garden – Benefits Of Mulching Your Vegetable Garden
Mulching is important in all garden settings whether using Organic Methods or not. There are many benefits to be gained from mulching your ornamental garden beds and many of these benefits are well known. Water retention, weed suppression and aesthetic appeals are just a few. Mulching your vegetable garden is perhaps less thought about but there is many benefits to doing it…
August 1, 2010
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Organic in the Garden – The Benefits of Growing Peas in the Organic Home Garden
Peas are a one of the most popular vegetables grown in the organic home vegetable garden. The are prolific self-pollinating plants providing bumper crops in cooler climates. Botanically recognised as Pisum sativum, Peas have many uses not only in the Kitchen but also in the garden…
July 10, 2010
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Organic In The Garden – 5 Tips And Many Benefits Of Growing Silverbeet In The Home Garden
A very nutritious vegetable, Organic Silverbeet is high in many nutrients including Iron and Chlorophyll. In the kitchen it has many uses ranging from a boiled or steamed green vegetable to a rich flavouring in Soups, Stews, Casseroles and my favourite in a rich Bolognaise sauce. The young leaves of Silverbeet can be used in salads though I find it rather bitter when raw…
July 4, 2010
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