Organic Gardening Principles
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Organic Gardening Principles
Organic gardening is more than not using pesticides or chemical fertilizers. Below are some basic practices that should be implemented if one chooses to garden using organic principles.
1) Make soil care a priority 2) Make local resources your first choice 3) Use organically grown seeds and plants where possible 4) Manage the whole yard organically- edible crops, ornamentals, lawns, and paths 5) Make the garden wildlife friendly, encouraging wildlife to control pests 6) Play to your yard and gardens strengths, capitalizing on its particular characteristics 7) Consider the environmental implications when choosing materials for landscaping, fencing, soil improving, and plant management
8) Collect rain water, and reduce the need for watering by improving the soil and growing appropriate plants
9 ) Make garden compost and leaf mold to feed the soil 10) Stop using synthetic fertilizers 11) Avoid the use of pesticides and preservative treated wood 12) Give up burning trash 13) Control weeds with out herbicides 14) Say ‘no’ to genetically modified cultivars 15) Learn to distinguish pests from predators 16) Reuse and recycle to cut down the use of finite resources and reduce disposal problems such as landfills 17) Use traditional methods where appropriate 18) Make use of the latest scientific findings where acceptable organically 19) Use crop rotation for vegetable crops Simply stated; organic gardening is an environmentally friendly, people, and wildlife friendly style of gardening. Organic gardening methods can be used by everyone to create almost any sized and style of garden, in any location. Organic gardening gives you a chance to create the garden you want, safe in the knowledge that you are also doing your part to protect the wider environment in which we all must live. Organic methods are not just for the fruit and vegetable gardens. They can be applied to all areas of the garden, from lawns to flower beds and container plants. Interest is now growing in managing public parks, sports fields, and playgrounds using organic principles.
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