Comments on: Where Can I Find Organic Gardening How To Books?

By: luminaia

luminaia — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:19:32 +0000

Excellent. Lot’s of good ideas.

By: The happy atheist

The happy atheist — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:07:55 +0000

That is too easy.

The Encyclapedia of Organic Gardenning written by J.I. Jodale.

By: angelique_mystic

angelique_mystic — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:56:14 +0000

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.

By: merloutre77

merloutre77 — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:00:18 +0000

Square Foot Gardening.

http://www.squarefootgardening.com/

By: gunapie

gunapie — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 08:21:44 +0000

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.

By: Citrine Dream

Citrine Dream — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 14:53:24 +0000

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!

By: utubepunk

utubepunk — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:41:05 +0000

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.

By: smognote

smognote — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 09:11:36 +0000

loved it, please follow up on this

By: sebastianm1

sebastianm1 — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:28:26 +0000

Great vid brother, lots of good ideas in there too! Thanks for your time in sharing your garden . Peace

By: moe1223

moe1223 — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:26:22 +0000

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.