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The organic garden can become a self-sustaining ecosystem.
Do not expect blemish free fruits and vegetables in an organic garden. A healthy crop in healthy soil will be resistant to pests and disease. Keep weeds away and feed plants regularly. Check backs of leaves for pests and remove manually rather than spray.
Plan the layout of your garden using the principles of plant rotation and companion planting.
You can use Lady Bugs and Praying Mantis to control pests. Lady Bugs like to live in berry bushs. Both are available from local nurseries.
Set aside a part of the garden to compost directly on the ground, then use this area for planting once the compost is broken down. This saves moving the compost and since the compost heap is placed around the garden more of the garden benefits from earthworm activity. The composting process is hastened by reducing the size of the organic matter; a shredder or shredding machine can be used for this.
You can enhance your flower garden with vegetables. Red or green lettuce, cauliflowers and cabbages planted between bulbs or annuals provide wonderful color and texture.General:
Tips: Sunflowers, nasturtiums, marigolds, and calendulas in with the vegetables. They will draw pollinating insects and birds.
Chives have a scent that repels insects.
Marigolds reduce soil nematodes.
Nasturtiums attract aphids and white fly away from fruits and vegetables.
Sawdust around plants can deter slugs and snails.Tomatos:
Tips: Plant marigolds next to tomatoes to reduce tomato worms and soil nematodes.Lettuce:
Tips: Use sawdust around seedlings to deter slugs and snails.
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A Complete Guide to Garden Stuff: articles, tips and tricks
Biocontrol Network: has information and marketing alternatives to "traditional" chemical pesticides and fertilizers
Container Type Organic Sustainable Agriculture Horticulture Research, Resulting in: Water Conservation, Community Food Security, and Total Self-Sustainment.
Doctor Greenfingers: an educational and helpful web site for all gardeners, beginners to advanced, using a hospital theme, quite unique!
EnvironLink: non-profit environmental resource
Garden Blether: Patrick Vickery is a Garden Writer and Gardener based in the north of Scotland. As well as running a small perennial plant nursery in the Scottish Highlands, he writes articles of an anecdotal, unusual and gardening kind called the “Garden Blether”.
GardenNet: the Ardent Gardener-a weekly internet guide, Flora's Best-an online garden shop
Gardens of the USA: browse gardens by state or type
Greenhouse Kits: Hobby greenhouse kit company offers greenhouses, greenhouse supplies, and tips for garden enthusiasts.
Green Thumb Corner: landscaping and lawn-care
Guide to Garden Stuff: soils, fertilizers, tools, pests
Master Gardener: This Master Gardener page from Texas A&M's GN / gopher / WWW server has answers. You can search the database by single or multiple keywords or read general information on vegetables, fruits and nuts, flowering plants, ornamental trees and shrubs, and turf grasses.
Plant Answers: a public service by the Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Plants National Database: USDA plant resources
M.K. Rittenhouse & Sons Ltd.: a very large website that many gardeners would find useful with an online garden magazine full of articles and gardening tips and secure online shopping with shipping to anywhere in Canada and the United States.
St. Aubin Nursery specimen quality trees, conifers, shrubs, and perennials. Your source for plant information!
Space Saver Gardening System is based on the concepts of raised bed gardening and vertical growing; a growing system requiring less watering, less weeding, less light, and less care.
Smithsonian Institute of Botany: publications, research, botany collections
Strawberry Facts: strawberry recipes and harvesting tips
Suite 101 Gardening: Here 22 garden editors from the United States, England, Ireland, Australia, and Tasmania write regular columns, conduct ongoing discussions, and suggest links to the best gardening sites on the Web.
Sundance Supply resources for building greenhouses.
Sunset: featured articles from "Sunset" magazine
The Gardening Archive at the Lysator site has an emphasis on plants suitable for a temperate or cold temperate climate.
The Garden Gate gardeners and nature lovers will find garden/nature info & web links.
The Garden Pages: the art of home gardening
The Garden Web: as it's name implies, this is a web site of useful information.
The Rose Resource: all you need to know about roses
The Tele-Garden Information Page: The Tele-Garden is a tele-robotic installation that allows WWW users to remotely view and tend a living garden.
The Trellis: over 150 garden links
The Virtual Gardener: articles, tips and tricks
This Bug's For You!: all you need to know about BUGS!
Traute the BioGardener: has gardening tips.
Vegetable garden slide chart: The chart shows proper planting times relative to spring and fall frost dates for 21common garden vegetables, and more
Virtual Garden: tips and tricks
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