moonGROW - Organic gardening by the moon and zodiac signs

Maintenance of your Garden

Proper care and maintenance of your garden

Your moon phase garden will prosper only if given proper care and maintenance. The moon and stars can only do so much. You will need to do the rest.

In an effort to provide some guidance in garden care these authors give us many tips and techniques that are expressly geared to organic gardening.

The time you spend out among your plants, in their care and feeding, is time that will be rewarded.

The Cultivation of Vegetables
As to weeds, the gardener of any experience need not be told the importance of keeping his crops clean. He has learned from bitter and costly experience the price of letting them get anything resembling a start.

Beware of Gardening Myths
Ever since gardens were planted, observations and anecdotal claims have been offered to improve garden success. Be cautious of label and advertising claims for garden products and skeptical of what you hear--and read!

How to Store Home Made Juice
What we do is make our juice in one session in the morning and enjoy it until the day is done. We store the juice in the fridge in bottles with the air tight levered top ensuring an air tight seal, keeping the juice as fresh as possible.

Pruning Grapes - 8 Simple Tips and Advice For Pruning Grapes
If you planted grape vines in your backyard, you should make it a point to regularly prune them. Pruning is something that you should not take for granted. If done properly, pruning grapes can improve growth and development.

Early Spring Garden Chores
All of us are anxious to see bulbs sprouting, buds unfurling and color splashed throughout the garden. And yes, even though it is a bit early to get your hands in the dirt, there is plenty you can do to gear up for the gardening season.

Making the Move From Winter to Spring
Plant kalanchoe seeds for bloom next Christmas. Spring is a great time for starting leaf cuttings of your favorite African violets.

Spring Yard Cleanup - Compost Waste
One of the first yard tasks of the growing season is to clean up garden debris left from last year. This generally includes leaves blown between shrubs and into corners of the yard.

Garden Techniques - How To Deal With Frost Damaged Plants
Spring is a time when you can often get caught out by an unexpected frost. We have had a couple of vicious frosts after relatively balmy days, and this can be lethal for plants that get caught and are unprotected too. How do you recognise the signs, and what can you do?

Rose Gardening in the Fall - The 4 Most Important Tasks of Autumn
Preparing your rose beds for winter is a very important process for the fall rose gardener. Follow these four important steps and your rose bushes will be be well prepared.

Mulch Your Spring Flower Bulbs in the Fall for a Beautiful Spring Display
In the fall just apply a 3-4” layer of well composted mulch. This layer of mulch will do a couple of things. It will maintain a higher moisture content in the soil, which is good, as long as the soil isn? t too soggy. Well composted mulch also adds valuable organic matter.

FROSTS IN THE GARDEN
Understanding some facts about frosts may help prolong your gardening season, and help to protect your plants from injury.

Preparing Gardens for Winter
Fall reminders for both the indoor and outdoor garden are featured in the new 2008 North Country Garden Calendar from the Extension systems of Maine and Vermont.

The Best And Cheapest Healthy Water For Your Garden - Rainwater
Avid gardeners spend a good part of the winter planning what they will plant in the spring. Even casual gardeners invest plenty of time and money in their plants. Regular watering is one key to a successful garden. So what's a gardener to do when faced with lack of rainfall combined with water restrictions in the middle of a hot summer?

Organic Options For Fertilizing Your Vegetable Garden
I have often been asked what is the best organic fertilizer to add to the soil of a vegetable garden. Its not the sort of question that has an easy answer, but its not a complicated solution either. There is really no exact answer to a "best" product when it comes to organic nutrients.

The Garden Soil - Look After It If You Want To Have A Garden In The Future!
It is generally accepted by historians and geologists that a number of once flourishing ancient civilizations in different parts of the world, declined and disappeared, as it became increasingly difficult to grow sufficient plants for food, clothing and industry.

How to Test your Garden Soil Acidity Levels
Soil acidity a very important environmental factor that can affect plant growth and limit crop production. For maximum plant growth and health, you must adjust your soil to suit the acid needs of the plants you plan to use.

Soil Analysis By Leaf Testing For Correct Fertilization
Tasteless food is a good measure of the micro-mineral concentration in your soil. ASAP Plant Minerals is the effective way to assure biosynthesis of phytochemical nutrients in crops.

Differing Organic Approaches - Biodynamics
The concept of Soil fertility that Howard initiated is based on building the Organic matter in Soil with a focus on how soil life was connected to the health of crops, livestock, and humans. Howard's theory was that the best method of dealing with a pathogen was not to destroy it but to see what could be learned from it.

Composting - An Introduction To The Basics
Do you want to know what food scraps you can put in your compost recycling bin? Or do you want to know how to start your own compost pile? Find your how-to answers here, along with some handy tips on composting.

Improve Organic Gardening Using Composting
Building up sustainable soil for organic gardening starts right after the garden soil testing has been completed. The testing of the soil helps to identify the additional fertilizers and conditioners that can be added. When attempting to garden organically, testing, maintaining and improving the soil is a constant process and one that is well worth the effort, according to those who advocate organic farming and gardening.

How to Discourage Garden Pests
Although one is tempted to go on a rampage when seeing pests feast on your plants, try to control the amount of herbicides and pesticides you use. They are toxic and harmful to pests, pets and even people.

The Best Organic Garden Pest Control Treatments
We forget with the enhancement of technology how to live in a world without it. The same can be said for pest control. We have forgotten that pest control on farms and in home gardens used to be organic.

Herbs helping vegetables
As more of us are growing our own vegetables, we realize just how many evil bugs are out there, who enjoy munching on our carefully sown veggies. For those gardeners -- like myself -- who prefer organic gardening over the use of chemicals, companion planting is a viable alternative.

How to Attract Beneficial Insects
You need insects in your garden if you are going to have the best possible garden. There are statistics that say that there are many more beneficial than destructive insects.

Organic Pest And Disease Control
A plant's main enemies are pests (such as rabbits, insects, slugs and snails, and nematodes) and diseases (like fungi, bacteria, and virus). Most can be controlled using ecologically friendly methods. Rather than setting a goal of a pest-free garden, learn how to work with nature to keep problems at an acceptable level.

Moon Garden Fertilizers and How to Use Them
Moon Garden Fertilizers and How to Use Them. Soils containing a lot of organic material provide a healthy environment for the fungus and bacteria which transform nitrogen and other elements into usable compounds the plants can absorb.

Organic Methods To Stop Slugs and Snails
Slugs and snails have a tremendous capacity to frustrate gardeners. Overnight they can destroy young seedlings and disfigure your favourite plants. There are numerous ways to stop slugs and snails.

Organic Methods For Getting Rid of Ants in Your Garden
If you've just started out with organic gardening, you may be wondering: are there any organic methods for getting rid of ants? They can be annoying at times, covering all your precious plants.

Composting A Natural Life Cycle
In the soft, warm bosom of a decaying compost heap, a transformation from life to death and back again is taking place. Life is leaving the living plants of yesterday, but in their death these leaves and stalks pass on their vitality to the coming generations of future seasons. Here in a dank and moldy pile the wheel of life is turning.

Urban Composting
Whether you live in a high rise building or in the country you can use your kitchen waste to make compost. Easy to use indoor compost machines make turning your kitchen scraps into rich compost easy and fun.

Compost, Mulch, and Wood Chips
Compost is the dark rich black finely shredded up top-dressing for flower beds. It is the most commonly used top-dressing for flower beds. However, mulch and wood chips can also be used.

Different Types of Mulch - Advantages and Disadvantages
Mulch is aesthetically pleasing because it looks clean and neat. However, the benefits of mulch don't stop there. Mulch also helps to retain moisture, prevent soil erosion, control weeds and it adds nutrients to the soil. When it comes to choosing which type of mulch to use, you will find many different options. Here's a brief look at the different types and the advantages and disadvantages of each one.

Mulch is Mother Natures Blanket
Whatever you do, mulch is a critical part of gardening and lawn maintenance. You never know when there will be a lack of rain or too much of it, a freeze comes along, lack of nutrients needed for the plant. If you mulch properly then you are prepared for the unexpected.

Keep your garden cool with mulch
The month of May is time for mulching. To prepare the garden for the summer climate, you should apply mulch around all vegetables, fruits, flowers, vines, shrubs and trees.

How to Add Manure to Your Home Vegetable Garden
If you love growing great tasting vegetables in your home vegetable garden then by now you should know that in order to maintain that yearly success your soil needs to be rich in nutrients. Manure can do this for you.

Basic Gardening Tools for the Home Gardener
Tools can be bought at garden supply, department or hardware stores and at some lumber yards. Shop carefully for your first garden tools and be sure to only buy quality tools. Good tools should last for many years.

Fundamental and Basic Landscaping Tools
Many people are impressed with the beauty of well-groomed gardens and think that a lot of money is needed to maintain the landscape, however, it can be as simple and inexpensive as one chooses. All that is needed is a good set of basic tools that will help one who has an avid interest in the hobby.

Repairing and Buying Garden Tools on a Budget
Buying and repairing garden tools can be expensive. There are plenty of ways to keep the repairs and purchases of tools into a budget that you can afford.

What Every Gardener Needs
Gardening is a favorite pastime of people around the world. Who doesn't love an opportunity to get dirty, and to touch the cool moist earth? The stillness and tranquility of nature provide many gardeners with a sense of peace. As you tend your garden, you will marvel in its growth and beauty. You will feel great pride as you watch your garden produce delicious and colorful results. Your hard work will be appreciated by all you share your garden with.

Efficient Garden Tool Storage Can Extend The Life Of Your Garden Tools
The use of efficient garden tool storage is really up to the choice of the individual, however, there are some constants that should be adhered to before using the storage. These are such things as the cleaning of the garden tools and also the lubricating and oiling of the tools prior to storage. This will protect the tools whilst in storage.

Autumn And Winter Gardening Techniques
This is the time to prepare the garden for bad weather.


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