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: growing organic vegetables, mulch, mulching plants, mulching vegetables, pea straw, useful mulching materials, vegetable mulches Posted in: Growing Organic Vegetables
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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: mulch, weed suppressant, wood chips, woodchips Posted in: Organic materials
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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: compost, mulch, organic, seaweed Posted in: Organic Gardening
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