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Organic Garden Information

Resources to support your organic garden.

What is organic gardening?  Organic gardeners support the health of their plants by creating and maintaining a living soil that contains a diverse community of underground micro-organisms and other tiny life forms.  Spraying “products” to control pests and diseases is the last option for solving garden problems, even if an organic-approved product is available.

Fertilizers in an organic garden consist mostly of ground-up tissues (seed meals, kelp meal, for example) and rock powders. Nutrients from these are made available to plants through the action of those micro-organisms — bacteria, funguses, actinomycetes, and more — that live in the soil.

Managing an organic garden can be a wonderful experience, but here in the Southern U.S. there can also be a bit of a learning curve. The eventual goal of this website is to flatten that curve, providing information that can help you create a vibrant, productive garden.

If there is a resource or information you need, let me know by sending a note through the Contact page so I can put your topic at the top of the list of resources to create.

Cluster of round, red radishes -- an easy crop and so good to eat.
Radishes from my organic garden.
An embarrassment of riches from my pepper-patch.
An embarrassment of riches from my pepper-patch.

Garden Insects, Pests and Beneficials

Build Bee Hotels for Native Bees

Snails in the Garden

Trap Crops for the Home Garden

Something is Making Holes in My Squash Flowers and Stems

Are Ladybugs Eating My Squash Plants?

Large Black Wasps on Flowers (beneficial)

Beneficial Garden Insects: Flower Flies

Small Yards Can Support a Lot of Pollinators

Striped Caterpillars in the Garden, Eating the Dill

Ladybugs in the Garden: Which Ones are They?

Organic Pest Control: Mexican Bean Beetles

Predatory Wasps (Beneficial)

Fire Ants in the Garden – Organic Control (Part 1)

Fire Ants in the Garden (Part 2)

Bean Leaf Rollers Return

Aphids on the Arugula?

Control Cabbage Moths and Butterflies with Netting

 

Fertilizer for the Organic Garden

Soil pH and Garden Success

Coffee Grounds for Gardens

Side-dress Your Vegetable Garden if Needed

Worm Composting

Potassium Sources for an Organic Garden

A Tale of Two Fish Emulsion Fertilizers 

Broccoli, Beets, and Boron – Updated

Recommended Crops

Difference Between Determinate and Indeterminate Tomatoes

Ordering Seeds for the Small Space Garden

Seeds for the Small Space Garden, Part 2

Ichi Ki Kei Jiro – Asian Persimmon

Uncommon Crops at Area Community Gardens

Many Kinds of Chicory

Edible Jewels of Opar is Beautiful, too

Peppers, Basil, and Bees in the Garden

Sequence of Ripening Fruit in my Southern Yard

Grow Chicory for Coffee and Greens

Tomatoes for the South

Planning to Grow Spring Salads

 

Organic gardens, even small ones, produce good food for people. They also can support populations of  insects and animals that are an essential part a healthy ecosystem.

Bronze Arrow lettuce in the garden
Bronze Arrow - a beautiful oakleaf-type lettuce
cluster of small green tomatoes
New, tiny tomatoes growing in a cluster in Amy's organic garden

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