Where Can I Find Organic Gardening How To Books?
Even if you are the best organic gardener in the world you will still need help from time to time and reading a few organic gardening how to books should point you in the right direction if you are having problems or give you a few tips you didn’t know about. Reading about how other people have achieved organic gardening success in organic gardening how to books should inspire you to get out into your garden to try and do better. Sometimes you will need help to solve certain problems such as insect infestations and having a look at a organic how to book is probably your first step in overcoming your problem. Here are a few organic gardening how to books that you might want to add to your collection.
Organic Gardening for Dummies by Ann Whitman and the National Gardening Association. There are a couple of other organic gardening books in the Dummies series. They are all very practical organic gardening how to books, with easy-to-understand instructions.
Backyard Composting: Your Complete Guide to Recycling Yard Clippings by John Roulac of Harmonious Technologies. This organic gardening how to book will show you how to start and maintain a compost pile with ease.
The Frugal Gardener: How to Have More Garden for Less Money by Catriona Tudor Erler, MS. This is an organic gardening how to book of tips and techniques gathered from all kinds of experienced and successful organic gardeners around the world who offer their expertise.
Worms Eat My Garbage by Mary Applehoff and Mary F. Fenton. If you want to know anything about worm composting, this is the organic gardening how to book that answers all your questions.
Great Garden Companions: A Companion-Planting System for a Beautiful, Chemical-Free Vegetable Garden by Sally Cunningham. Information on companion planting is hard to come by, and this organic gardening how to book is an excellent resource.
The Organic Gardener’s Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control: A Complete Problem-Solving Guide to Keeping Your Garden and Yard Healthy Without Chemicals by Barbara W. Ellis and Fern Marshall Bradley. One of the best books on pest control which all organic gardeners should read.
Rodale’s Illustrated Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening by Henry Doubleday Research Association. Rodale’s is the #1 name in organic gardening, and any organic gardening how to book from Rodale’s is worth reading. This encyclopedia is full of pictures, too, so it makes for a relaxing read.
If you are unable to find what you are looking for in one of the above books a trip to your local library, browse the internet or why not take a visit to your nearest garden centre and speak to an expert who will be happy to help.
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The garden on May 16th, before the growth takes off. Info: Figs are easy to start by planting a small new branch and keeping it water for a month.
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December 26th, 2008 at 12:49 am
Love the bird song-paradise
December 26th, 2008 at 1:45 am
Wonderful garden. Here in Athens the squirrels eat all my figs. I’ll try your method and plant a new tree and maybe they will share! My pistachio tree is 6 years old, no nuts yet. My muscadines are all vine & no fruit. I’ll watch for your next video.
December 26th, 2008 at 1:34 am
I own this book, and have found it to be a very valuable resource. He takes you from start in the spring to finish in the winter. There is a very helpful vegetable encyclopedia in the back of the book that lists just about every vege and herb you can grow. It tells you when, where and how to plant them! This is my favorite book, I've learned a lot from it.
http://www.amazon.com/Vegetable-Gardeners-Bible-High-Yield-Gardening/dp/1580172121/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-9968232-1954829?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1172986947&sr=8-1
You can buy it used for $12 at Amazon. As you can see by the reviews, others recommend it as well. Good luck!
December 26th, 2008 at 2:04 am
In organic gardening, soil quality decides vegetable quality. That's why you need good quality compost to keep the soil productive for organic vegetable gardening.
Compost can be made from leaves, dead flowers, vegetable scraps, fruit rinds, grass clippings and manure. The ideal organic soil has a dark color, sweet smell and is full of earthworms. Some soil may need more natural additives such as bonemeal, rock phosphates or greensand. A simple soil test will tell you the pH balance and which nutrients you need to use.
December 26th, 2008 at 5:11 am
Subscribe to Organic Gardening magazine. Every issue contains a wealth of knowledge. Most of what I learned about organic gardening came from Organic Gardening magazine, and 20+ years later I still learn good stuff in every issue. Organic Gardening is a Rodale publication, and you can't go wrong with any of the Rodale Institute's fine books.
December 26th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
thats an awesome backyard
December 26th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
looking forward to the folow up…the garden looks good! I like the shower/water recycling system. would figs do well in the mountains here in western north carolina…not a particulary high elevation in macon county?
December 26th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Organic means no chemicals are used. Learn about organic fertilizers. Watering and weeding are all you really have to do. Vegies pretty much grow themselves.
December 26th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Rodale's Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening.
The late Mr Rodale was gardening organically way before it became common. Lots of great info in this book.
December 27th, 2008 at 12:28 am
Great vid brother, lots of good ideas in there too! Thanks for your time in sharing your garden . Peace
December 27th, 2008 at 9:11 am
loved it, please follow up on this
December 27th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Great little vid. I’d be interested in that recycled shower-water system you use to water your garden. On your rain water barrel- why no filtration? Seems like a lot of gunk would be in the run-off from the roof. Keep up the good work.
December 27th, 2008 at 7:53 am
Mel Bartholomew's "square foot gardening" method is really inspiring, and can teach you to fit a lot of plants into a small space. (Here's the site; there's also a book: http://www.squarefootgardening.com/)
For nuts and bolts kind of gardening, I like Barbara Damrosch's Garden Primer (from amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Garden-Primer-Barbara-Damrosch/dp/0894803166).
If you are into preserving foods at all, I really like Mike and Nancy Bubel's books; the root cellar book has a lot of info about planning your garden, too. They also have one on seed-starting. (From amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Root-Cellaring-Natural-Storage-Vegetables/dp/0882667033/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231314436&sr=1-1 also http://www.amazon.com/New-Seed-Starters-Handbook/dp/0878577521/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231314436&sr=1-7)
Good luck, and have fun!
December 28th, 2008 at 8:21 am
Figs should live there. They will grow best if planted on the south facing wall of a building that has plenty of sun (the roots are aggressive house foundations). Once the trunk is about three years old it will stand a hard freeze of 15 degrees of a day or two. Start a new fig tree by burying a 3 foot new branch at a 30 degree angle with 6 inches above ground. Keep moist of two months and you have a fig tree. contact me for more tips.
December 28th, 2008 at 5:00 am
Square Foot Gardening.
http://www.squarefootgardening.com/
December 28th, 2008 at 9:56 am
I'd be happy to help you out but we may need to go back and forth a little. The thing is that there is no one perfect source and there is no one absolute way. You could probably just start your garden now and wait til you do have compost of your own. On the other hand It's nice to do some basic improvements in a clear bed if you are planning on planting any perennials. I wouldn't bother with topsoil or peatmoss. You can buy the bags of compost and manure. It isn't great but it isn't entirely worthless either. You may want to check in to mushroom compost. I haven't used it because I have my own compost but I hear it is really good stuff. It's kind of expensive but apparently very rich so you don't need that much. I don't know what's up with your soil so I can't get more specific. I don't know whether you're planting veggies or herbs or flowers or what either and I don't know where you are so I'm sorry if I sound kind of useless.
Here are the titles to some books that I have found very useful on my learning curve:
Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Perennials
(Rodale's books are generally good)
Burpee's Complete Gardener
Reader's Digest Illustrated Guide to Gardening
These are general titles with a lot of basic information. They aren't geared specifically organic but they have been very useful to me. I just take in what I need and get my organic info elsewhere. I think Rodale does have some books on organics, I just haven't run across them.
E-mail me through answers, if you want, and tell me what you're wanting to grow and what your climate and exposure and soil are like and we'll see if we can't get you a little more set up. I always love to see people take up gardening. It's the best thing I ever did for myself.
December 28th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
That is too easy.
The Encyclapedia of Organic Gardenning written by J.I. Jodale.
December 29th, 2008 at 9:19 am
Excellent. Lot’s of good ideas.