Archive for the ‘organic gardening’ Category
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
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?
- 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.
- 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.
- Less harm to the environment. Poisons are often washed into our waterways, causing death to the native fish and polluting their habitat.
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Sunday, June 27th, 2010
Gardening is a popular hobby and indeed an enjoyable activity. Through it, you can be close to nature and relax and rejoice in its beauty. In case you are pretty serious about gardening, you may wish to pick up particular handy gardening tools. These tools can simplify many of your jobs and make your gardening sessions more delightful. Here we glance at some gardening must grabs that you positively need to have.
A watering can is one of the most basic essentials that a gardener would need. Even if you are planting trees that have easiest requirements, you will have to water them on a regular basis. Of course, you’ve the plant hose to water the plants but a watering can proves to be more useful where in you ought to use water sparingly.
Another primary must have equipment for every gardener is a set of gloves. If you don’t want your hands to get dirtied and roughed up while gardening, it is crucial to get started only after wearing gloves. It is preferable to use high quality gloves made of tough substance. This guarantees that you do not come in direct contact with several toxic substances and chemicals which are part and parcel of gardening.
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Sunday, February 14th, 2010
That luscious red tomato would taste so good right now if it weren’t supposed to end up in tonight’s dinner salad. The only reason resisting is an option is because there are so many, all because the tomato fertilizer used was simply the best tomato fertilizer available. There are so many gorgeous tomatoes that there needs to be an alternate plan as far as what to do with them all.
Though it doesn’t seem possible to those who haven’t heard about it, the best tomato fertilizer you can use is fish emulsion. Doesn’t smell great, but it does wonders for your tomatoes.
Fish emulsion is a superior organic tomato fertilizer because the results produced are truly incredible. The second you bite into your first harvested tomato, you’ll be delighted. You won’t even understand how you used any other fertilizer and got away with it. Your neighbors will gawk, questioning what your top secret ingredient is.
Your tomatoes are going to do so well because their roots are getting pampered with the highest nutritional value possible. That’s why fish emulsion is the most excellent tomato fertilizer you can use. Your harvest will justify itself when it produces more than you imagined.
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Friday, August 28th, 2009
by Tina Hull
What else hits the spot on a hot summer’s day, after tending to your tomatoes, than sinking your teeth into a sweet juicy tomato? Unless you aren’t using the best tomato fertilizer available, then you might not have that option. The best tomato fertilizer on the planet will guarantee the tastiest tomatoes you’ll ever grow.
Though it doesn’t seem possible to those who haven’t heard about it, the best tomato fertilizer you can use is fish emulsion. Doesn’t smell great, but it does wonders for your tomatoes.
Fish emulsion is the most excellent tomato fertilizer because it produces the most amazing harvests of tomatoes you’ve laid your eyes on or sank your teeth into. Your taste buds will have a party in your mouth. Neighbors will be flocking, wondering what your secret ingredient is.
So why is fish emulsion the best tomato fertilizer? Well, besides growing the most magnificent tomatoes in the world, fish emulsion provides advanced nutrition to your plants’ roots, and the roots are what supply your plants with the nutrients your tomatoes need.
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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
by Tina Hull
Organic growers are more careful about what and where their liquid organic fertilizers come from. Hence, this article discusses how liquid fish emulsions are made. First of, they are mostly made from the Menhaden fish which is not considered a human food source. However this fish is used for making oil and animal feeds. The waste from the production of this fish into oil or animal feed is the ingredient used for making liquid fish fertilizers.
The process of making liquid fertilizer starts with cooking the fish and pressing out the oils and liquids. The solids are made into fishmeal, animal feed, and other products. The oil, which is literally worth its weight in gold, is skimmed off. The liquid is boiled down until it thickens, making fish emulsion.
A small amount of phosphoric acid is added to the fish emulsion to lower the pH. Lowering the pH makes the liquid fertilizer more acidic, which prevents it from decaying and fermenting into gas. Before phosphoric acid was added in the manufacturing process, containers of fish emulsion were known to burst from fermentation. Because the amount of added phosphoric acid is so small (less than one percent by weight), the product is still considered organic.
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Sunday, June 14th, 2009
by Amelia Lathyrus
Organic gardens are not without some of the drawbacks that every garden has. One of these drawbacks are various kinds of pests.
What is different in an organic garden as opposed to a conventional garden is the way you fight these pests. In our organic garden we want to fight them in an environmentally safe way, and not use strong chemicals that will cause harm to plants, good insects, your soil, and to you and your family. And they will often accumulate and also trickle down into the ground water.
Tips 1 for Your Organic Garden Pest Control: Handpicking For bugs big enough to be seen and picked, this is by far the most easy and least costly way. Enjoy your garden in the early morning and in the evening, and while doing that scrutinize your plants and remove all the little fellows you can see that are doing harm to your plants. Drown them in soapy water or just squeeze them.
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Sunday, December 21st, 2008
by Amy Nutt
You’ve probably noticed that organic foods are becoming very popular. This is because many individuals are learning the benefits of organic foods. At first, it seemed as if ‘organic’ was a word used to describe an exotic type of food, but it is anything but. Some individuals would even steer clear of the organic foods section in their local supermarket because of the fact that these foods were different. But now, organic food is something that is found all over the supermarket. There is a section in produce designated for organic, but you will find these foods scattered all throughout the supermarket.
But what is meant by ‘organic’?
Well, it all starts with the gardening. Organic gardening is different than most methods that are currently used. In other words, the methods are different than the methods that are used to grow the rest of the fruits and vegetables in the produce section.
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
by Juddson Clay
She just bought a bamboo compost pail one month or so ago and I have to say, I am filled with envy. I always thought that having a compost bucket in your kitchen was a sure recipe for fruit flies, mold and bad smells, but I had to take it all back when I witnessed this thing.
She can put all the kitchen scraps generated by her family of four in there and she only has to take it out once per week or so. It looks absolutely pretty, and best of all, it has redundant filters so there is absolutely no odor!
Not only does the bamboo look great in her kitchen but the bamboo plant is a fast growing, easy to feed, non-resource intensive renewable resource. Unlike hardwood trees that take decades to grow, bamboo for wood can be grown in just a season, making it one of the most ecological materials in existence.
The compost pail is also very resilient, making it a far superior material over, say, ceramic, when it comes to things falling off the counter (hey, it happens) and unlike some of the stainless steel ones out there, it doesn’t show off every single mark and fingerprint.
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