Organic Vegetable Gardening A Growers Guide

On planting a home organic vegetable garden .....

PART 1
Your Own Organic Vegetable Garden

The vegetable garden is a very important link between us and the earth. As our garden grows we grow. When we grow our own food we know exactly what has been used to grow this food. We know that the fruit, the vegetables, the herbs that we grow are rich and full of nutrients necessary for our health. Our backyards can provide us with good homegrown food. Growing your own food is a very important aspect of maintaining a healthy mind and body.
Kill as last resort!
Even more important is growing our own food organically without the use of chemicals that pollute ourselvesand our environment. If our home grown food is to have good nutritional value it must be grown in healthy live soil. The fact is, to succeed growing organically, healthy soil is a
necessity.

Steps to Creating your Garden Paradise 

RAISED BEDS OR NOT. THE DECISION TO HAVE A RAISED BED OR TO GROW IN THE GROUND DEPENDS UPON:

• condition of the soil
• amount of space you have to work with
• amount of time you have
• amount of water you have available to use
• amount of money you want to spend.

A FEW POINTS ABOUT RAISED BEDS:

1. Raised beds allow you to grow from 4 to 7 times more food in the same area then in
the same ground.
2. Raised beds allow you greater control over wateringcosts, pests (from gophers to ants) and crops (especially extending harvest periods).
3. Raised beds allow you greater control of the soilbeing used. Raised Beds are easy to make and you can recycle (reuse) various materials in making the beds.

Organic Growing is fun and safe 

You can use rocks, wood (untreated, unpainted of course), tree logs, bricks. You can use bottles to make the sides of your raised beds. Stick upside down in ground. You can use clay onthe inside to mold and hold them together or you can use sand and pack it in or use rope to tie them together. The idea has a lot of potential for reusing glass around the home. Untreated Redwood makes good wood for raised beds. A good size fora raised bed is 10 ft long by 5 ft wide by 12 inches tall with 2 in thick wood. This size is big enough to feed a family of 4. Pine, fir and almost any rather strong wood is all right as long as it is untreated. Never use Rail Road ties that have been treated. This is very bad for your health as well as being bad for the garden (it kills the soil). If you decide not to use a raised bed then you must prepare the area first. I will go over these thing in next pages.
 

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