Growing Your Organic Garden

Tips to Create an Organic Raised Bed Garden

Raised bed gardens have been making waves in the garden world for some time now because of the many benefits this garden type offers. Two of the many benefits of constructing a raised garden is these gardens can fit into the smallest of spaces, even if you don’t have the space a raised bed garden can still work.

Another benefit of a raised bed garden is you can garden just about anywhere, even if your soil type is not ideal or the perfect fit installing a raised bed garden will make having a garden possible. Below we will be discussing more of these benefits but what we will be turning our attention to is installing an organic raised bed garden.

A raised bed garden can be of any shape, style, and size from the simples to the most complex, the photo to the right shows a simple but neat construction and installation of a raised bed garden.

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 How to Start an Organic Garden

Growing an Organic garden is a great way to grow your foods in a healthy way while saving a few dollars that can add up over time. Organic gardens involve growing food crops without the use of harmful pesticides or synthetic fertilizers (man-made). On a wider scale, organic farms use these seem methods in crop growing along with raising livestock, organic practices only use methods that are natural.

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Attracting Bees to Your Organic Herb Garden

You can have the best of both worlds by creating an organic herb garden that attracts bees. Going organic or starting an organic herb garden from your backyard is a great way to promote a healthy lifestyle.

Growing organically is catching like wildfire because of the many benefits that are involved. Many backyard gardens are either transformed or started to create a garden of this sort that benefits both us and other pollinators bees being among this group.

The life of a bee

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A how-to Guide to Indoor Organic Gardening

More and more people are seeking ways to promote good health this is the reason why many backyard gardens are either been created or transformed in such ways to grow food crops in a healthy way. Even if you live in an apartment and desire to grow your food crops organically you are not alone and the good news is that limited space can also be turned into an organic garden.

But to have success a well-thought-out plan must be put in place that’s why we are here to guide you along the way to help you think outside of the box as you accomplish your goals of growing your very own indoor organic garden.

What is an organic garden?

Simply put an organic garden is a garden where food crops are grown naturally or without the use of synthetics (man-made chemicals). With these types of gardens, everything from the soil to the food crop is organic.

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Turning Your Backyard Garden soil into Organic

Backyard gardens are becoming more and more popular as many homeowners are seeing the need of finding ways to sustain themselves, especially during these times. Persons who would have never thought of growing a backyard garden are now getting their hands pleasantly dirty seeking to reap a good reward for their labor.

But as the need arises for more backyard gardens there is also the concern of growing food crops in such ways that will be of great benefit to our health. I  believe if not all of us most of us are all too familiar with hearing stories of persons becoming ill because of food contamination.

These stories of food contamination have sparked such an interest in growing food crops in a much healthier way so if you’re interested in how this is done then continue reading.

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Growing Organic Herbs from Your Backyard Garden

Growing herbs from your backyard garden provide flavors that will enhance your favorite dishes providing freshness at your fingertips that’s a cutaway as you take a stroll in your backyard.

Besides enhancing the flavors of your foods garden herbs can also provide the needed nutrients along with its healing properties that make growing herbs a must and you can also save on your grocery bill. Yes, growing herbs from your backyard garden have all these benefits that make growing herbs a winner.

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Growing and Eating Healthy from Your Garden

Organic gardening is making waves in so many home gardens as well as food that’s grown on a wider (farms) scale. The need to eat healthily is a growing concern as more people are becoming health-conscious and are aware of how food crops are grown.

So many backyards are now being started by organic farming and then there are some gardens that are being turned into an organic garden by ripping out those beautiful flower beds to make space for a garden such as this and as painful as this may be to some homeowners taking out a flower bed completely or at least a portion is a small price to pay to grow your very own food crops in a healthy way.

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 Natural Ways to Control Garden Insects Pests and Disease

The life of a gardener can be pretty hectic at times there is so much that’s involved which can be challenging but these challenges do not go without rewards the goal is to continue to work at it until you get the results you desire.

Two challenges that are involved in gardening are insect pests and diseases, if not brought under control can turn any dream garden into a nightmare. I have worked on many garden projects where I have faced these issues but I kept at it until I got the desired results.

Times have changed providing new and a safer approach when seeking to eliminate garden insect pests and disease,  these natural means or methods have proven to be effective especially where food crop is involved.

Our ecosystem has suffered because of the misuse or overuse of harmful chemicals that have killed off many beneficial insects, affecting wildlife along with contaminating both the air and water system. Below we will be discussing these safer approaches which are effective while protecting our environment.

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Steps to successfully transform your garden

Traditional gardens are becoming a thing of the past as many home gardeners are embarking upon a new journey that is going organic because of the emphasis which is being placed on food production in relation to our health. This has sparked great interest because there are many ways that have and are being looked upon of how we can grow better quality food crops that will sustain our health.

In the past, there have been so many horrors stories of food crops, medical reports have shown that some illness can be traced back not so much as to how foods were prepared but how they were grown. The key to growing organic is that you are in total control of how your food crop is grown, nothing gives a more pleasurable feeling than to know that you did not only grow your own food crops but you grew them in such a way that will promote good health.

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Making Organic Soil Mix

I am sure that at some point or time we have envisioned having that dream garden, or have you ever taken a trip in the great outback or even going a nature walk?

As you walked along that nature trail you notice those beautiful plants in their full luster and an array of flowers in full bloom you felt free and beamed with joy, just to take in all that beautiful scenery that nature has to offer.

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 Using organic fertilizer

The world as we know it is becoming more and more aware of the need to live a more healthy lifestyle, one that can add years to your lifespan. Everywhere we go we see and hear of health programs that are offering a better way of living.

The media and airwaves are flooded with advertisements and commercials about healthy living. The world has become so health-conscious that it has become common to see people working out in gyms, jogging, walking, and so on.

Dieting has also become the norm, while more and more restaurants are offering healthy choices on their menus. Supermarkets are placing more healthy products on their shelves and nutritional stores are in every shopping mall.

“So what does all of this have to do with organic fertilizers?”

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Organic insect control

As the population increases, the demand for greater food supply is in high demand and the need to raise more livestock is in great demand also.

The need for crops such as fruits and vegetables is also needed in abundance. There is not just a need for a greater supply of food but also for growing and raising these foods that are safe and of good quality.

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