There you are looking at your yard wondering where you could put in an organic home garden. Then your thougnts go to how nice fresh produce will be to eat. Wow veggies of all kinds, well all the kinds you and your family like. Yeah the price of produce at the market can be so high. You know you can do this yes your own organic home garden.
If this will be your first garden you'll need some help. And I think I can help you with that. I can get you started in the right direction. It's not really that hard and you can't be afraid of a little hard work. The hardest part is turning the dirt over if your going to garden the old way. We'll talk about a different way a little later on, ok? This will be worth the effort belive me.
So you need to plan where to put your veggie garden in. Ok go get a sheet of paper and something to write with, now sketch what your yards lay out is, you know just a rough draft. Figure about how big you want it to be. Now if you live in the city or in an apartment you can still grow your organic garden. Indoor organic gardening is done by allot of people, you'll need some containers to grow them in. Is there a place that gets sun light most of the day? Thats where you want to put your containers. Make sure these containers can let water drain through them, and you can put trays of some sort under them to catch the water. We will talk more about that later.
Alrighty then, we know where to plant and now we need to figure out what to plant. Will your organic garden be of vegetables, herbs (I love to cook with fresh herbs) or flowers? Well you can plant any combination of these even berries are good to grow, and good for you, so you decide, it's your garden. There are different ways to plant (in the yard) you can turn the soil over or you can put compost and other organic matter on top of the soil. These would be called raised beds. These beds can be 4 to 10 inches (10cm to 25.5cm)deep or high. That should be enuff to support a good root foundation. Once I learned how microbs worked in the soil and how healthy they are for the plants I used the raised bed option.
So now we decided where to plant our organic home garden and we put a list together of the things our family likes to eat. Now then at this writing it is mid fall so we need to start getting ready for next growing season. Lets put in a compost pile, it will consist of every organic thing in our reach. No not the children or the spouse. Plant organics like peelings from preparing your food and stuff from the yard like leaves cut grass small twiggs and things of that sort. No animal products unless it's fertilizer, yum. You can put old newspapers in as long as its black and white ink or you know for sure the printer uses biodegradable color ink. Cardborad boxes if you tare them up or lay them flat on the ground then pile everything else on them will work. The key to a good compost pile is to water it and turn it once in awhile maybe 2 or 3 times a month, in the fall and winter that is. If you can turn it in the winter, you know. You'll figure it out. If you live in an apartment you can compost your kitchen organics in a porciline crock, it's not very big but later on I'll share a secret with you about something called compost tea. Real good for any garden indoors or out.
So that should give you enuff to start with and I hope you grow a great organic garden. It's healthy and good for the whole family. Did you know gardening is also a great way to relive stress and get a workout maybe lose those stubborn inches. So this should keep you busy until next time when we talk about seed or transplants, witch should you start with, well happy gardening and "keep it organic".
-Runningdog
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