Starting and maintaining an organic garden requires a lot of patience, and an affinity for growing plants. It is an activity that has a goal of growing fresh, nutritious food that is free of pesticides. This seems to be easier said than done, though, right? If you want to have the most professional gardening skills you can, read the tips in this article.
Use annuals and biennials to enliven your flower beds. Biennials and annuals that grow quickly can add color to a flower bed, plus they permit you to modify the way the flower bed looks each season and each year. They are very helpful when trying to fill in gaps between shrubs and perennials in an area that is sunny. You should get varieties such as cosmos, petunia, rudbeckia, hollyhock, sunflowers or marigold.
Check the soil before you plant anything in your garden. For a tiny fee, a soil analysis may be done, and based on the results, the soil can support a growing garden by you enriching it as necessary. A Cooperative Extension office can provide you with this service, saving you learning on your own by trial and error.
If you want your garden to sport flowers in the spring as well as summer, plant bulbs. Since bulbs are easy to grow and resistant to poor weather conditions, they will grow without fail year after year. Find out which flowers will bloom when and then plant a variety, so that you can have fresh blooms all the way through the spring and summer!
You must protect tender, deciduous shrubs. Any potted shrubs should be sheltered in the winter from cold weather. With a sheet or blanket, you want to loosely cover the wigwam after you tie the tops of the canes together. Doing this is a lot more effective than wrapping up the plant with plastic because it lets air circulate, which could avoid any rotting.
You have what you need and the skills to use these tips when gardening. Good for you! If you read this article carefully, you probably learned something new about organic gardening. You might even have learned something you hadn’t known before to use in your organic garden.
