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  1. 6 Ways to Control Weeds for Vegetables and Flowers

    Posted on October 15th, 2011 by admin

     
     

    Weeds are the major problems of home gardeners, as a small scale or a large scale gardening. It entails time, efforts, and money, and sometimes eats up most of your resources in maintaining your garden.

    The use of commercial weed control method would also affects our environment by air pollution and besides its being costly, draining your budget.

    Therefore, as a gardener, you should plan properly how to control weeds before going into this venture to avoid further frustration resulting to great losses in your part.

    The best defense against weed occurrence is prevention . It is much cheaper and easier to prevent weeds to grow than to kill them after they appear on the ground.

    When planning your garden, see to it that youll eliminate weeds in the growing area prior to planting. Be sure to remove the entire plant as well as the seeds as much as possible to avoid after growth.

    In the field of agriculture cultural management aspects, this is a very effective means of preventing weed growth without chemicals. In soil solarization, it involves removing all plants and weeds and retiling the soil. After the soil has been moistened, cleared and raked to remove any roots, rocks, and sharp objects, it is covered with a clear polyethylene sheet stretched tightly in place for 4-6 weeks during the peak sunlight of early summer. (You can use rocks or cinderblocks to hold the plastic in place.) The sun will totally heat or cook the soil killing any unsprouted seeds or remaining weeds.

    With the use of plastic mulch, placed on top of the soil, it helps to suppress weed growth by blocking sunlight to the soil preventing germination.

    Biodynamic or French Intensive Gardening is generally grown in raised beds. The soil is double dug to a depth of two feet which allows plants to more easily send their roots deeper down to access water and nutrients. The plants are planted close to each other so that the foliage of each adult plant will touch the foliage of another plant. This creates a leafy cover known as a living mulch. This will minimize weed growth as well as stabilizing soil temperature and moisture retention by the soil. You also get a higher yield from a smaller space by planting closer together.

    Vinegar solution is sprayed on full strength to kill weeds. You can use it between bricks or paver stones to kill weeds and grasses. When applied directly to the soil, salt will also kill grass and weeds between bricks and will deter regrowth.

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    Cris Ramasasa is a retired Horticulture teacher for 29 years and Freelance writer. Writes home gardening tips and resources. Written ebooks titled: How To Get Started In Flower Gardening and Vegetable Gardening Made Easy.

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  2. Biodynamic Farming for Planting and Growing Vegetables

    Posted on October 13th, 2011 by admin

     
     

    Earthworms or night crawlers are best used as fertilizers for vegetables, whether in small or large areas. Such organisms are best suited for a type of composting called vermicomposting. The composting type is a process wherein worms are fed to excrete a form of soil that is very rich in necessary and productive nutrients essential to growth of vegetable crops. This is clearly one technique to implement biodynamic farming. It is not surprising that these days, more and more farmers are treating earthworms as their real best friends.

    Studies commissioned by different governmental agriculture institutions globally have found that vermiculture castings or earthworms’ excretions, when mixed in the soil, have seven times more phosphorus, five times nitrate, 11 times potash, thrice amounts of magnesium and almost two times more calcium than normal soil used optimally for vegetable cropping in the most fertile agricultural lands. Vermiculture is indeed one effective way to maintain richness and fertility of soil.

    In the past, or in some agricultural areas elsewhere in the globe today, some vegetable farmers regard earthworms as pests. That is why they keep on killing and removing worms they see around their crops. Little did such farmers know that earthworms are actually helpful. As such, the small organisms should be left alone and should be allowed to make burrows in the soil. Such small diggings have proven to be advantageous because they facilitate the flow and entry of air to the soil and down through the roots.

    In the US, there are studies conducted by the Ohio State University showing how presence of earthworms in vegetable soil help the plants grow pest-free and ideally better. Vermicompost has been observed to free cabbage, pepper and tomato from savage and harmful pests like aphids, mealy bugs and caterpillars. Though the exact scientific reasons for the events are still yet to be determined, experts suggest that it is because vermicomposts are rich in highly essential nutrients that help vegetable cops become stress resistant and eventually unattractive to pests.

    People should also be corrected and educated for their misconception that worms cause rotting of roots and of tubers. Experts and horticulturists emphasize that maggots and other pests usually cause such problems, not worms. In fact, earthworms are known to feed on decaying matters, decomposing leaves and barks and animal manure. The organisms have never been known to feed on vegetable roots, tubers and crops. This is surely one biodynamic farming technique that needs trying out.

    If you plan to plant and raise vegetables on the big scale, it would be better if you would consider putting earthworms as fertilizers. Doing so would surely result to better and healthier growth of the vegetable crops and eventually to higher yields and harvests. Biodynamic farming is advantageous in such a way that there is no need to spend too much on chemicals just to make plants healthy. By keeping the soil fertile and conducive for planting, anyone could plant and grow vegetables that are of the highest quality.

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  3. My Solar Garden

    Posted on March 10th, 2011 by admin

     
     

    Visit SiteGardening what is it about this relaxing pastime that can so completely absorb all of our attention? We pour our hearts and souls into maintaining the perfect outdoor wonderland complete with flowers, vegetables, and shrubs that beautify our homes and provide us with an incredibly important vent for our frustrations and daily stressors.

    I have never been able to find the answer, but I have been a happy victim of the green thumb bug for the better part of my life. Since I first dug up a potato in primary school as a child, I have been seeking out any opportunity I can find to test my prowess as a gardener.
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  4. Hydrponics123

    Posted on March 9th, 2011 by admin

     
     

    Visit SiteFinally Revealed, The First Practical, Step-By-Step Guide to Sucessful Hydroponic Gardening

    I used to struggle with finding produce at the grocery store. I would spend endless time looking for the best vegetables. My wife would sometimes tell me to go get the vegetabels, and she would do the rest of the shopping. I had such a hard time finding clean, ripe, and un-bruised produce. One day, I decided I had enough. The vegetables waren’t worth the time or money. There had to be a better way!
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  5. High Density Gardening

    Posted on February 28th, 2011 by admin

     
     

    Visit SiteDiscover the Secrets to Growing Superb Tasting, Really Fresh Healthy Vegetables From a Tiny Area With Only a Few Hours of Work a Week

    If you want to discover how to grow really fresh, wholesome and tasty vegetables that can be on your plate within minutes, and to do all this without any sustained hard work, then this is going to be an exactly what you are looking for.
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