Friday, January 29, 2010

Gardening with Nature to Help You

Maybe the only way to protect against insects is to make your garden alluring to insect predators such as ladybirds, birds, frogs, and lizards. You can do this by keeping a water source nearby or by growing plants that attract insects who eat nectar. Other ideas are sticky traps, barriers, and plant collars. There are some home items that forestall against insects too, like insecticidal soaps, garlic, and hot pepper.

To avoid plant illness in organic gardening, select disease resistant plants and plant them in their prime conditions. Many diseases will spread due to continuous moisture and bad air movement, so that the location of your garden and the way it is watered can help guarantee against illnesses. Weeds can be a vexing and annoying part of eco-friendly gardening. Organic mulch can act as a weed barrier, except for even better protection put a layer of paper, construction paper, or card under the mulch.

Mulching such as with lawn grass cuttings, or fallen leaves, barkchippings are also popular, will slow the expansion of weeds if spread early in the season before planting, as does solarization. There's also the old style art of hoeing and hand pulling that usually works. Your best chance in weed prevention is endurance. Mulch well and pull and hoe what you can ; after some seasons you can beat the weeds for good. Organic gardening is a superb way to reassure that your plants will be free and clear of all insecticides and, if sorted correctly, will be as fit as possible. Ecological gardening may take a touch more time and care than regular gardening, but after gardeners get the knack of it and work out all the idiosyncrasies of their garden, it is certainly worth the additional time.

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