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  • What is Organic gardening and Why is it So Important ?  By : Eric J. Smith
    No doubt you have heard the term “Organic” before but what exactly is meant by “organic” gardening ? I have read many articles from “plant scientists” who regard the term “organic” as being redundant, because ‘organic’ in this sense refers to anything containing carbon. ALL plants contain Carbon so in that manner All plants ARE Organic. Organic Gardening however, refers to the media in which the plants grow such as soil, potting mixes and the like as well as the additives used to stimulate and encourage plant growth and control pest and disease.
  • Planting Fruit Trees For Your Garden  By :
    Fruit trees bear at different times of the year. For example, there are apples for early season, midseason, and late season (well into fall), so it is wise to select trees for the season you want.
  • In Search of the Best Gardening Tools  By : Slavco Stefanoski
    Different kinds of gardens require different kinds of garden tools. Hardware stores mostly cater for a wide range of tools, but there are shops that specialize in the more expensive kind of garden tool that shouts quality. Wherever you decide to shop, here are a few pointers to advise you.
  • Choosing the Best Plants for your Garden  By : Slavco Stefanoski
    Many times we buy plants on impulse then find there is nowhere in the garden that really suits them. Before buying plants carefully examine your garden to see how much sun and shade it gets, whether the soil is well drained or waterlogged and whether your aspect is sheltered or windswept.
  • Cultivating Vegetables  By :
    Instead of letting the weeds get away with any plant food, he should be furnishing more, for clean and frequent cultivation will not only break the soil up mechanically, but let in air, moisture and heat all essential in effecting those chemical changes necessary to convert non- available into available plant food. Long before the science in the case was discovered, the soil cultivators had learned by observation the necessity of keeping the soil nicely loosened about their growing crops. Even the lanky and untutored aborigine saw to it that his squaw not only put a bad fish under the hill of maize but plied her shell hoe over it. Plants need to breathe. Their roots need air. You might as well expect to find the rosy glow of happiness on the wan cheeks of a cotton-mill child slave as to expect to see the luxuriant dark green of healthy plant life in a suffocated garden.

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