The first key to organic gardening, living soil, rich in nutrients and active microorganisms and worms. The best way for such soil with compost from chemically treated waste sites and build a kitchen for free. Books like "Home Composting Made Easy" and "Worms Eat Garbage" is a good resource to learn how to compost.
The second important element is planning. Share your garden space into two approximately equal. Use one side for summer crops - seeds sown or started grafted on the expected date of the last ice. It will be harvested before frost in fall first expected. Use the other half to plant autumn, winter and spring. Vegetable spring will be completed during the autumn and winter crops are planted.
Remember to relax and rebuild the country. In bed the summer, after harvest in autumn, hardy green manure legume crops of winter in a warm room, such as red clover, peas, beans and Fava for nitrogen to build, and wheat grass, like wheat, rye,wheat or added phosphorus. Beginning next spring, dig the hand, the roots exposed to air. Cover with compost and garden plants in the field this spring. This should be done three weeks before planting to ensure that pathogens are killed in the composting process. On a bed of autumn, winter and spring, spread compost into the soil to prepare for summer crops.
Natural light and loose soil can be planted in March with a green manure crop that grows quickly and again in May this is a good job to prepare the land for the summer garden. You can use regular spinach or arugula. Cut the leaves of the best (tender, less is more) for food and gently inverted to sewage plants to change, so the air roots.Dig deep enough to pull out. The less you disturb the soil, the better. Both compost in about 10 days, but not plant for 11 days. If the rocket bolt (flower stalk), pull the plant and put in a compost pile. Wood sticks would not be fast enough to get into the garden plot to make it ready to be planted in three weeks.
The system automatically creates random rotation crop and ensure that the dose of compost at least every other year. And that brings us to the third key to successful organic farming: crop rotation. Mobile species in a different bed every year, soil-dwelling insects and pathogens, such as certain plants to die than to actively go and wait for their favorite foods - foods you.
Park Rotation is the most effective operation of the American Northwest mites: a symphylan, (garden centipedes) that eat the roots grow, and often death stunting of vegetable seeds.
The "onion" effect is a term used to the effect that the roots of onion waste and ecological land left by harvesting onions for the next harvest in the playroom to explain. The effect was stronger in the first year and reduce both the then undetectable. Bush bean plants appear to influence them - they are very limited in the first year after the onion crop. In addition, most other plants do not see the effects for the show, but could also be because the soil is very rich. All the vegetables seem to grow better in the yard for several years. (Any excuse to weed the vegetable garden from the back to change.)
The key to success in organic gardening is the fourth most attractive option for most people and most often overlooked: to save the record. However, please note that this treatment is very important to have a good system to develop companionate effect. when things grow better or worse, perhaps because of what grows in the previous season. Keeping notes will help you develop and perfect your spin and get a good understanding of the possibility of succession. You will also want to track where the plants grow the same crops grown in the same place next year.
Draw a floor plan of your garden bed and in the middle and make photocopies. Then enter your data on a blank copy. Make sure you have the original or a new character when you make a change in geography.
