How to Start an Organic Garden
8/11/2022
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Organic Gardening is an affordable hobby that allows you to enjoy growing vegetables and fruit year round. If you don't already have a garden space, we can provide you with a greenhouse in which you can grow your food.
Don't know where you want to start? It is easier to start small. Start with a few plants or a couple of herbs in pots on your patio. Organic gardening means you don't use synthetic fertilizers, or pesticides, but that isn't to say your plants fend for themselves; there are a variety of tools you can use which can bolster plant health and ward of pests. To grow healthy vegetables, you need good soil. Your soil needs to be well-conditioned, which requires regular applications of compost tea. Compost tea contains natural fertilizer ingredients such as manure, seaweed, kelp, fish emulsion, and molasses. These ingredients nourish roots and feed plant growth. To grow healthy vegetables, you need good soil. Your soil needs to be well-conditioned, which requires regular applications of compost tea. Compost tea contains natural fertilizer ingredients such as manure, seaweed, kelp, fish emulsion, and molasses. These ingredients nourish roots and feed plant growth. If you don't know where you're going, sometimes you might just have to ask for directions. The best way to figure out what kind of soil you've got is to take a sample from the area around each plant. You can purchase a basic home analysis kit, or better, submit a sample to your local agriculture. If you don't have time to test, you'll want to know your soil has enough organic matter.
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As so much gardening advice is based not on systematically tested ideas, but received wisdom, I find doing a bit of measuring and recording can often reveal some surprising results.
One of the simplest methods I have found is timing how long I spent doing different indoor and outdoor gardening tasks and noting how they stack up. While I was pretty sure watering was going to come out top in terms of time investment in the growing season, even I was astonished that 70% of my time spent in the garden was dedicated exclusively to holding a hose. If you are anything like me, finding water-wise ways to irrigate will not only save you an enormous amount of time, but reduce your bills and help the planet, too. If water efficiency is your goal, then drip irrigation is probably the most efficient form of irrigation, and drippers also tend to be the cheapest. Irrigating with a dripper system means you only have to water each plant’s root zone, so while you will need to purchase drippers for each plant, this is usually cheaper than buying individual sprinklers. A dripper system consists of three main components: a pressure regulator, a dripper line and a dripper. A pressure regulator controls the water pressure and ensures that drippers receive the correct amount of water. The pressure regulator also ensures that the water is distributed evenly, so the same amount of water is delivered to all parts of the plant’s root zone. Drippers are simple devices that release water at a slow rate. They are inexpensive and come in a range of sizes, so you only need to purchase drippers for the plants in your garden. Drippers are connected to the dripper line, which distributes the water from the dripper to the plant. Dripper lines come in a range of sizes, and you can buy dripper lines with connectors that suit different fittings. Artificial turf is often touted as a more 'eco-friendly' alternative to traditional grass lawns. However, artificial turf has its own set of environmental problems. Nonnative lawn grasses proliferate. The lack of biodiversity in a grass-only lawn means that these spaces are virtual deserts, practically devoid of life. Add in excessive water use, fuel/energy use in their mowing, and the use of environmentally damaging (and potentially human-health impacting) herbicides, and it is clear to see that a neatly mown grass lawn is not a sustainable or eco-friendly choice. The most common type of artificial turf is made from polyethylene fibers bound together by a resin binder. Polyethylene is petroleum based plastic, which means that this material will eventually break down into smaller pieces and end up in our oceans. This process is called microplastic pollution. Microplastics are small enough to enter the food chain, where they may harm marine wildlife. They can also absorb toxic chemicals like flame retardants, pesticides, and heavy metals, so they pose a threat to humans who consume them. How much energy do you think it takes to make one square meter of artificial turf?
The amount of energy required to grow one square meter of turf ranges from 1.5 kWh to 5.0 kWh per year depending on the type of turf. So let's take a look at some examples of what this amounts to annually. 1) Synthetic Turf - 3.2 kWh per square meter per year 2) Real Grass Turf - 2.6 kWh per square meter per annum 3) Bermuda Grass Turf - 6.7 kWh per square meter per annual 4) Kentucky Bluegrass Turf - 4.8 kWh per square meter per yearly 5) St Augustine Turf - 7.3 kWh per square meter per years Lawns are often seen as a necessity in our culture. They provide a place for people to spend leisure time outside, especially during the summer months. However, they require a lot of maintenance, including regular watering, fertilization, and mowing. These activities take up a large amount of time and energy. Some homeowners choose not to maintain their lawns because they find them too much work. Others do not feel comfortable cutting down trees and shrubs around their house. Still others may not have enough space to grow grass. Whatever the reason, many are choosing to replace their lawns with alternative landscaping options. |
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