With the current organic trend, holistic lifestyles are common these days. Anyone living this kind of life usually has to organically grow their own herbs and plants to maintain their way of living. Read these tips to get started.
A good tip to help your plants stay healthy and fight diseases is to use aspirin water. Dissolve aspirin (1.5 pills per 2 gallons of water) in a bucket and administer to your plants. All you need to do is spray the plants with the solution in order to battle common ailments. The process can be repeated every three weeks or so.
Prepare the ground for a perennial garden quickly and easily. Only a garden spade and woods chips are necessary. To prepare the garden, slice out sheets of turf using the spade, and flip the turf upside down. Then, cover the newly turned soil with wood chips, approximately three inches deep. Allow the newly turned soil to sit for two weeks, then plant your perennials.
One way to ensure efficiency while gardening is to keep your tools close by. For example, you could use an over-sized tote bag or an apron with multiple pockets. Keep gloves, small pruning shears, a trowel and any other tools handy in order to increase the quickness of the work that goes into your garden.
Planted flowers will benefit from organic materials that are built up to as much as three inches. Using this much mulch retards weed growth, locks in moisture, and ensures that your plants are well-nourished. Also, the flower beds will look beautifully maintained at all times.
Believe it or not, pine makes great mulch. Some plants need acidic soil to grow properly, because of their own acid content. If you have some of these plants, then pine needles are an easy way to add acid to their bed. Cover soil beds with a few inches of pine needles, and they will disperse acidity to the soil below as they decompose.
As in most things, the more you know about organic gardening, the more successful you will be. The tips here can help.
