Perennial Flowers Growing Lavender

3 tips on how to successfully grow lavender by professional herbalist. Other tips can be found here www.gardening-tips-perennials.com on garden author Doug Green’s perennial flower website. This amazingly fragrant herb is one of those plants that loves the full hot sunshine and well-drained rocky soils where this lavender farm is located. The lavender plant has been growing in herb gardens for centuries and used as an antiseptic, aphrodisiac and a range of other uses that may or may not be a reason to grow. The fragrance is one of the top 5 most-used fragrances in the world, adding its magic to all manner of products. Full sun, very well drained soils (clay soils kill this plant) and moderate climates for the most part. This garden is however in Canada and quite cold. Listen as the grower explains his techniques for overwintering this tender plant. The fun thing about growing lavender is there is no reason to spray it for anything – it’s an organic gardeners best friend. So grow this herb for its fragrance as well as its culinary value (lavender cookies are to die-for!) :-) If you want to see my ebook on Growing Lavender, it’s here www.simplegiftsfarm.com
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CHEAP AND EASY PORTABLE FISH POND – A GOOD SOURCE OF ORGANIC FERTILIZER FOR YOUR PLANTS

Hi! This is Going Organic. You can find our website at www.goingorganic.weebly.com. I am going to talk to you about making a cheap and easy portable goldfish pond for your yard. I’ve started using it as an easy source of organic fertilizer for the plants. I got the idea, while watching videos on aquaponics. They use fish water for fertilizing their plants in a hydroponic system. So I started scooping out the pond water and using it as liquid fertilizer for my plants. I started out with a small hard plastic fish pond in the ground in the back yard about 17 years ago. When we sold that house, I couldn’t bare to go without part of the pond. I separated part of the roots from the original lily and threw it in a 5 gallon bucket with some water. At the next house, I set up a 20 gallon pot and put some sand in the bottom to anchor the plants. Then I planted the lily in the pot. I added some standard gold fish and put a lawn chair next to it with some landscaping. In the evenings, I would sit next to the pond, while I fed the fish and looked out at the woods behind the house. There is something very relaxing about a fish pond. (Even the 20 gallon size.) Recently I read about aquaponic gardens set up with growing fish. The fish wastes in the water fertilize the plants. I started scooping out my pond water to use as organic fertilizer for plants in the yard and I add it to compost. I set up this 20 gallon pot recently. I just added about 2 inches of sand to the bottom with some …
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Organic Gardening Guide – 3 Basic Steps For Good and Successful Organic Gardening

With gardeners turning to organic cultivation of flowers and vegetables in large numbers, many of them find an organic gardening guide as a handy tool for equipping their flower and kitchen gardens with plants grown in a healthy manner. This helps them decide what is best for their gardens and their pockets and what they should avoid doing if they want their greens to be in the pink too.

Now for organic gardening to be successful one needs to follow three basic, but most important steps.

1. Preparing the soil – As soil plays an important role in sustaining and holding plants, it is necessary to prepare it for planting by treating it with organically prepared compost and fertilizers. This helps the soil acquire all the vital nutrients that it may be lacking, but which the plants require for good growth. This should be done whether one is planning to either grow flowers or vegetables as both require a good dose of nutrients.

2. Selection and care of seeds – It is mandatory for the grower to know what kind of plants would suit his garden. Hence, you should buy seeds accordingly. An organic gardening guide helps you decide what the right medium for sowing your seeds is and when to transplant them from the original containers to your garden.

Caring for seeds is extremely important as the success of your gardening depends on it. Make sure that the medium in which you are planning to plant your seeds is adequately moistened to suit the germinating needs of your plant. While some seeds need to be covered, there are others, which require exposure to sunlight.

The plants should be exposed to the prevailing weather conditions before shifting them from the containers to the garden. Keep them cozy and moist during the germinating stage. Always refer to your gardening guide for exact information about tending to your seeds before planting them.

3. Protection from insects and weeds – After you have planted your seeds and they begin to germinate, it becomes all the more important for you to protect them against insects, diseases and weeds. Using natural products to deal with pests is the wisest thing to do in case of organic gardening as this does not have any ill-effect on the plant. Besides this, allowing natural predators of pests into your precincts helps too.

One should also take timely steps to keep the garden free of weeds. Steps such as exposure to sunlight and applying mulch apart from physical methods as pulling out the weeds by hand, also helps check the growth of weeds.

Compost Tea w/ Howard Garrett

Dirt Doctor elaborates on compost tea and how to make it @ home. For more information, check out Howard’s website on the subject of compost tea: www.dirtdoctor.com
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I want to start gardening as a hobby, but I have NO experience. Any books you recommend?

Question by .: I want to start gardening as a hobby, but I have NO experience. Any books you recommend?
I’m 18 and I’m moving from SoCal to Hawaii in about 6 months and I’m interested in finding some hobbies. Organic gardening interests me, but I don’t know anything about it.

What are some good books to teach me the basics or at least get me started for now?
Or any advice?

Best answer:

Answer by cajundude1
How to Grow Vegetables & Fruits by the Organic Method by J.I. Rodale and Staff. Putout by the Rodale Press, Emmaus, Penna.

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Garbage Can Potatoes

An update on my second attempt to grow potatoes using the garbage can method. Plus, an explanation of how it works.
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Jamie Oliver – Jamie at Home – Potatoes 1:2

Jamie Oliver Jamie at Home Potatoes Part 1 of 2

Growing Garlic : How to Store Garlic

Ensure that your garlic is stored in the proper location to encourage longevity. Learn more in this free educational video series. Expert: Tom Ashley Bio: Tom Ashley has been farming organically at Dancing Bear Farm in Leyden, MA since 1981. Filmmaker: Christian Munoz-Donoso
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John improves soil:: Central Texas Gardener

Get your garden started right with John Dromgoole’s tips to improve clay or sandy soil with with pea gravel, decomposed granite, expanded shale, and dairy compost.

Tomato Resurrection!

Surefire tip for growing tomatoes 365 days a year nonstop! I’m not kidding. Watch this video and find out how it’s done.
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