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  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Growing Organic Vegetables  No Comments

Organic Ingredients – Woodchips

Wood chips are made from old logs and wood waste that are not suitable for milling for timber. Some trees are grown specifically for the production of woodchips for paper pulp manufacturing. Woodchips are also left over after roadside tree trimming or clearing around powerlines…

May 29, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Organic materials  No Comments

Organic Ingredients – 5 tips for using seaweed in the garden

Seaweed is one of those garden additives that people either swear by or fear. Seaweed has by default a large quantity of sodium in it. Plants do not need sodium for growth and if they did, ground sodium at minute levels is ample…

May 28, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Organic Gardening  No Comments