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Daylily: A Perennial Favorite
Whenever a beginning flower gardener asks me what to plant, my answer is always the same -- daylilies. Without a doubt, daylilies rank high among the easiest, most adaptable plants for the flower garden. Daylilies will stand up to all but the most...
How to Clone Your Plants with Success
After struggling for many months with cloning, I finally began
to have some good results. I learned that cloning success has
more to do with temperature than what kind of cloning gel
you use.
Every step here has a reason...either to...
How to Grow Snow Peas
Snow peas may have been named because in bright sunlight their light green pods look as if they might be tinged with frost. One of the oldest vegetables, the earliest recorded pea was grown in 9750 BC on the Thai-Burma border. Since snow peas are a...
Natural Science - Not Rocket Science
Don't force yourself out of the most profitable hobby in the universe because you think it's too hard to learn ...It isn't!
Gardening is fast becoming the world's number one hobby, and with all the latest 'alternative' information we have to...
Tips for Planting Flower Bulbs
Flower bulbs can produce some amazing flowers throughout the
whole year for little care and effort once planted. This yearly
display can start with the earliest flowering bulbs in the
spring such as snowdrops and crocus and proceed into winter...
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Seven Ticks For Organic Gardening
Organic gardening is the way of growing vegetables and fruits
with the use of things only found in nature.
Why would one want to indulge in organic gardening?
1. One can easily make compost from garden and kitchen waste.
Though this is a bit more time-consuming than buying prepared
chemical pesticides and fertilizers, it certainly helps to put
garbage to good use and so saves the environment.
2. Organic farming does not use chemicals that may have an
adverse affect on your health. This is especially important when
growing vegetables. Chemical companies tell us that the
chemicals we use are safe if used according to direction, but
research shows that even tiny amounts of poisons absorbed
through the skin can cause such things as cancer, especially in
children.
On the average, a child ingests four to five times more
cancer-causing pesticides from foods than an adult. This can
lead to various diseases later on in the child's life. With
organic gardening, these incidents are lessened.
Remember, pesticides contain toxins that have only one purpose -
to kill living things.
3. Less harm to the environment. Poisons are often washed into
our waterways, causing death to the native fish
and polluting
their habitat.
4. Organic farming practices help prevent the loss of topsoil
through erosion.
The Soil Conservation Service says that an estimated 30 - 32
billion tons of soil erodes from United States farmlands every
year.
5. Cost savings. One does not need to buy costly chemical
fertilizers and pesticides with organic gardening. Many organic
recipes for the control of pest and disease come straight from
the kitchen cupboard. Sometimes other plants can be grown as
companions to the main crop. An example of this is the marigold,
which helps to repel aphids from vegetables. Mixing 1 tablespoon
of liquid dishwashing soap and 1 cup of cooking oil can make a
cheap garden pest spray. Put 3 tablespoons of this mixture in 1
quart of water and spray on plants.
6. A simple mulch of pine needles will help to suppress the
growth of weeds as well as keeping the moisture in.
7. Organic gardening practices help to keep the environment safe
for future generations.
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