Organic Gardening Book for Beginners?

And 10 Tips For Organic Gardens

Organic gardening is not just about not using chemicals, it is about using organic matter to help fertilize and replenish the soil in your garden. We can use our food scraps in our garden as part of that as well as grass cuttings old plants and flowers and build our own compost. Years ago my uncle was a farm manager and lived in the farmhouse on the farm. In the fields they used chemical fertilizers, courtesy mainly of ICI, but in his own garden vegetable plot he used everything else and I remember picking succulent blackberries from the hedgerows around the fields( mind you I now wonder what chemicals were on them?!). Manure from the cowshed and from the chicken houses, food scraps and his produce was really delicious. I can remember, even today decades since that time, how good it tasted! Yes it might not have looked perfect but who cares?

We have introduced this new Organic Gardening book "Beginners Organic Gardening" to help get you really motivated to produce your own delicious organic food. It's only $7 and an instant download, It has pages on setting up your organic garden (hint: it doesn't require a field even a few containers properly nurtured will do!) and dispels a lot of the "it's too difficult "myths, it isn't and this book shows you how to get a real organic start. Beginners Guide to Organic gardening also includes organic gardening pest control and organic gardening compost (nice!) and how to recognize the friends and foes of your organic garden and what to do about them!

Here are 10 tips to an Organic Garden so you can enjoy the same great tasting food and there's even more in the Organic Gardening book!

1. Soil. 

The idea is that you keep replenishing the existing garden soil with new organic matter. You can do this by using manure, and if that idea causes you problems you can get all sorts of manure at your local garden centre that doesn't smell too bad. You don't have to have a steaming pile of organic cow manure dumped in your drive by a local farmer! All your refuse created in the garden (except weeds with a long white root) should be fed back in when composted. This includes grass cuttings, leaves food leftovers etc. Just make sure there isn't too much of any one item.

2.Intensive planting in your organic garden.

Plant your seedlings and sow your seeds close together , which will conserve water and protects the soil from too much sun and helps to prevent weeds from growing too easily.

3.Watering and Weeding.

You can save any rainwater in barrels from your house guttering and any outbuilding as well to help and water the garden, especially in drought. Rainwater contains many useful natural elements to help plants grow. Using these water butts around your garden and hand watering ensures good water conservation and is better than a tap water hose where the water has been chlorinated! Use organic mulch around the less hardy plants in the summer to protect their roots from too much heat and from drying out. Also in winter it helps keep the roots free from the killer frost.

4. Avoid using any synthetic chemical fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides in your garden.

Your organic grown food will then be additive free and taste delicious on your own table.

5.Make sure good organic garden soil conditions are sustained.

This means your should keep replenishing the topsoil as above.

Has that tempted you to go organic yet if so get the book "Beginners Organic Gardening", it's only $7 and you can have it now! Learn organic crop rotation for yourself and enjoy the best tasting fruit and vegetables that you grew yourself from your Organic Gardening book!

6.Rotate Your Crops Annually. 

Good crop rotation helps you control against soil-borne pests and diseases as well as ensuring that one crop does not exhaust the nutrients in one particular area on the garden vegetable patch.

7. Environmental Care.

Organic gardening helps to reduce environmental pollution and also provides a sustainable and beneficial environment for the birds and insects and animals that frequent our gardens. Whilst this might need to protect some of the new shoots from being chewed off the insects and birds are vital for your pollination of veggies and flowers.

8. Wildlife-friendly Habitats. 

Informal areas can be created in the garden to assist wildlife in their search for habitat where they can survive the destruction of many areas; destructions that have now endangered many species. Hedgehogs are a real gardeners friend because they eat the slugs and snails ( that's organic!) that can wipe out a crop overnight! Search the internet for ideas on how to encourage all the wild creatures to enjoy and help guard your garden.

9. Biodiversity. 

Organic biodiversity ensures that when a change in growing conditions occurs, a single crop from a monoculture does not lead to a crop failure.  The food supply is safer when different crops and types of the same crop are planted on your vegetable garden but flowers can be looked after the same way..

10. Save some seeds from each organic crop where possible.

 Save some seeds from your best plants when harvesting crops in the garden.  Many old varieties are being lost at an alarming rate and preserving this biodiversity is important.  There are now seed banks retaining varieties that have long died out but can be restarted when the time is right.