Tips for Organic Vegetable Gardening

by Mark Brown
Posted: Mar 23, 2022

Organic vegetable gardening is easy and everyone you can try this kind of gardening. In this article, I will give you some information how to start organic vegetable gardening and give you some tips you should know and use them in your garden.

General plan for organic vegetable garden

On the start, your adventure with organic vegetables is to take decision what you want to grow. There are many vegetables to choose to organic gardening, but you must remember that certain vegetables cannot be grown because of the climate in your country, so take that into consideration.

As first step to realize organic vegetable gardening, you should choose those vegetables that are well adapted to the soil, temperature, sun and shade exposure in your country and your area.

If you live in an area where droughts are frequent, make sure you are planting drought resistant vegetables, since it does no need too much water and can withstand dry weather.

Space for vegetables

As a second step, you should determine how much space you have for organic plants, and you should plot on a sheet of paper the layout of how you want vegetables to grow in your garden. Then realize this in your garden.

Rubbish in the garden

Third, go to look around your garden and if you will find some garden rubbish, materials, old plastic and papers from last gardening season, firstly clean all around or hire a team from garden clearance company and order from them to realize this job. To use professionals will give you profit, that you will not lose time and too much own energy because garden clearance workers have equipment and technology to realize your order. To get good service to clean rubbish from your garden I'd like to recommend for you a local house clearance service, they have experience about rubbish from gardens too.

Organic material

Fourth, organic material for your vegetable plants.

You should mulch your vegetables with organic material and this material you can get from food waste, dead leaves, old grass and manure. This helps you conserve water, adds humus and nutrients in soil, and can help you to reduce weeds from growing.

Compost

To mix compost with soil, no need to dig deep because 85% of the vegetable’s roots are found in the top 6 inches of soil.

Together with compost, you can also use natural fertilizers and organic material to help the vegetables growing fast but in natural way.

In garden with organic vegetable, I recommend for you to keep earthworms that are natural soil tillers.

Pests in the garden

The biggest threat in the garden that could destroy your vegetables are pests. In organic garden, to get rid of them, you should use other insects, worms, birds and frogs.

If your crops have been infected by pests much, you can spray infected stems and leaves with dilute soapy water, after that use clear water on them. This procedure is very effective.

Planting of vegetables

Be careful when you plant vegetables, and especially don't destroy outside roots.

When planting vegetables, plant many kinds because this invites insects to take up resident in your garden or yard. You should know that only 2 percent of the insects in the world are harmful. This means the rest of insects are beneficial for you and your garden.

Some examples of these include ladybugs, fireflies, spiders and wasps because they are eating enemy of your vegetables insects. They also pollinate the plants and decompose organic matter in the garden.

Weeds

Don’t forget to remove weeds that come out in your garden, do it regularly. Weeds pull out by hand or spot spray it with a household vinegar, because vinegar is safe for the environment.

Crop rotation

If you practice crop rotation, you will make the soil always stay fertile. Every year or two years change places for several kinds of vegetables.

If you follow these few important tips, you will surely be able to have a true successful organic vegetable garden. You can plant and harvest organic vegetables as long is your gardening season.