Organic Gardening
Organic gardening is a comprehensive approach that works with Nature to grow healthy plants. It combines time-proven gardening practices with the latest scientific understanding of soils, pest management, and plant care. Successful organic gardening is not very complicated, it just requires following a few basic principles.
Green Chicken’s Principles of Organic Gardening
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Think of your yard and garden as a total system. The natural way reuses and recycles material from one part of the garden to help other parts of the garden.
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Promote diversity within the garden. This diversity attracts many different birds, bugs, and other critters that take part in the rich life of a growing garden. In an organic garden, these players are all part of the process.
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Grow plants in the environment to which they are best suited. Shade-loving shrubs planted in bright sunshine will always be weak. Consider their sunlight and water requirements as you group plants in the garden.
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Feed the soil, to feed the plant. To ensure that a garden thrives year after year, organic gardeners focus on their soil. Whether dry, sandy soils or wet, clay soils — all soils benefit from annual additions of organic matter in the form of mulches, manures, and other soil amendments. Improving the soil yields amazing benefits.
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Return to the soil as much as you take out. Recycle everything you can to keep those nutrients in the garden. Natural fertilizers can help replace nutrients permanently removed from the garden in the produce found on kitchen counters. Slow-acting, long-lasting plant food ingredients are what make them the closest thing to homemade compost.
Live in harmony with Nature, not in confrontation with it. Do your part to improve the garden and backyard environment, and your plants will reward you with beautiful flowers and bountiful fruits and vegetables.
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