Gardening Links

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All Organic and Varied subjects:
Soil | Water | Seeds | Pollinators |  Pests | Planting | Disease Control | Weeding | General Tips or All of the Above at other websites

SOIL

Vermiculture and composting system
Vermiculture and composting system
  • Fish Emulsion organic fertilizer
  • Organically raised chicken poop. Add water to make a liquid to put on soil before planting or use rabbit poop or bat guano.
  • Compost – kitchen scraps
  • Grass clippings-organic
  • Evergreen Nursery organic mushroom compost
  • City of San Diego residents, discounted compost bins available at select Dixieline ProBuild locations.
    or Build your own bin:
    Need a kitchen scrap collector?  Sure-Close Containers are available for $20 and are great for storing your compostables before you add them to your bins.
  • Use Cover Crops to Improve Soil – Organic Consumers Association

WATER

SEEDS

POLLINATORS – Bees

PESTS

  • VARMINTS:
    gophers – Victor traps with rabbit wire underneath to
    protect from having them escape.
  • Bury wire mesh to discourage underground varmints.
  • Rabbit wire mesh fencing to discourage rabbits from eating your corn and garden, as well as;
  • Deer wire mesh fencing to discourage deer from eating your garden.
  • ORGANIC PEST CONTROL:

PLANTING

  • Companion Planting – Mother Earth News companion-planting
    How – using a wire mesh
    Example: tall corn, vineing peas, squash
  • Transplanting from starts, remember to spread the roots carefully
  • Where to plant
    • Thinking about sun exposure:
    • Thinking about staying out of the shade and water suck of big trees
      leave enough room for plants to grow and for tending, after plants take off you may need to thin.
    • 10 flowers to grow with vegetables –

      Companion Planting: How To Deter Pests and Encourage Beneficial Insects Flowers among the vegetables are more than just a colourful addition. They attract pollinating insects to fertilise the flowers of beans, peas, tomatoes and all those crops that depend on pollination to produce a crop. In some cases they may act as a decoy or a repellent to harmful insects such as aphids. Some are beneficial to and attract predatory insects such as ladybirds (ladybugs), wasps and hoverflies. These are particularly useful in controlling pests naturally without your intervention.Some also act as soil improvers: either by fixing nutrients in the soil or acting as green manures if dug into the ground at an early age. Some just look pretty, attract the bees and provide some lovely blooms for cutting for the house.

  • Strawbale Gardens – strawbalegardens.com
    Straw Bale Gardening allows anyone, even those with the worst soil conditions, to grow a terrific garden that is productive and much less labor intensive.  For anyone with difficulties bending over or doing the heavy work that is usually involved in turning the soil and digging to plant and harvest crops, the raised height of the Straw Bale Garden makes those chores obsolete.  Harvesting potatoes means simply knocking over the bale at the end of the season and picking them up, no digging required.   Weeding will also become a thing of the past, there are no weeds in a Straw Bale Garden.  Stop spending money buying containers, building raised beds, and buying special planting mixes.  Minimal maintenance resulting in maximum production, through Straw Bale Gardening.  It will completely change everything you thought you already knew about gardening.  Try this method and I assure you that soon you will understand why this is the perfect way to grow a vegetable garden. Click link to find out more.
  • Apartment Gardening  – RealFarmacy.com – and more gardening articles
  • Raised Beds with cast off pallet wood – RealFarmacy
  • Gardening Soil Bag Gardening
  • Vertical-farm-industry and ways to do it at home – I thought our group might be interested in this as a means to avoid  GMOs.  Last spring I bought my own Tower Garden(aeroponics system) this last year, and placed it on my backyard patio. I got wonderful results and a diverse type of organic produce this whole last year.  A couple of weeks ago, I turned it off to clean it.  Outside of the fact I needed help to clean out the roots, I got it all cleaned and it will be good to go again shortly.
    Click on the link above to access the whole story of the article.  There are many different varieties of these Tower Gardens systems sprouting up lately.  I’m  proof that a city born and bred gal can grow wonderful produce in a small corner of a backyard patio in a typical Clairemont house in San Diego for a whole year with minimal effort.
    by Josie Hill from our “Label GMO’s group” in San Diego

SEASONAL DISEASE CONTROL CARE

  • TREES AND ORNAMENTALS
    use LIQUI-COP: Foliar feed for trees in dormancy, Copper Fungicidal Garden Spray

WEEDING

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE