Planting Using Organic Methods

It isn’t very hard to plant vegetables, if you want to try it the old fashioned way, you can embody organic vegetable methods that are both effective and safe for you, as well as your loved ones.

The major thing you want to do with organic gardening is to avoid using any synthetic products such as pesticides and fertilizers.  After all, it isn’t planting using organic methods if you are using any artificial additives.  In plain simple terms, organic methods include working with nature as closely as humanly possible.

If you are planning on picking the right vegetables or plants, you need to know the type of climate and soil that is best suitable to plant these vegetables. If you happen to live in an area full of drought or rain, there are vegetables and plants that you can choose to plant that would be best suited to thrive in such areas.

Before dropping the seed and beginning to plant, make sure that you are planting on properly tilled land clear of weeds as well as rocks. The next step you probably want to take is to add some bone meal or rock phospate as well as compost and greensand in order to supply the soil beneath with phosphrous, nitrogen and potassium.  If you happen to have a really high pH level, add some sulfur or lime to adjust this pH level.

Another thing you will have to do before you plant any seeds, is to put some organic fertilizer underneath the soil.  You can also use some grass clippings, recycled leaves and coffee grounds as well as fruit peelings and kitchen waste a month before you start planting.

When it is time to plant using organic methods, you will want to use seeds properly by placing them a distance from the roots so as they don’t fight for water.  In every vegetable you can plant various things because the tighter you have between the spaces, the less chance that weeds are going to start growing between.

Pests can be quite a large threat to your organic gardening project.  In order to combat pests in organic gardening, you can create the ideal environment that will allow frogs, birds or other non pest types of insects to feed on the pests.  Such an environment can include such things as a small pond or birdhouse.

Use row covers to prevent moths from laying eggs on your vegetables, use foil collars or sticky traps to stop borers and other pests.

Why use crop rotation ?

It’s the best way to keep the soil fertile and preserve its fertility.  This can be done after harvesting the vegetables so as to keep the soil ready for planting. You will need to plant in the same area a different vegetable than before.