Organic gardening is the best way to ensure your family gets the very freshest, most nutritious meals while protecting our earth and pollinators.
Everything interconnects out there in the organic gardening world. Soil, water, climate, seed quality, beneficial insects, pests, bacteria and funguses all play a part in the success of a garden.
So how do we grow our own organic vegetables successfully when bugs eat our crops and weeds sprout everywhere?
Growing in harmony with nature means learning good garden management… and accepting some weeds and making your own insecticidal soap for pests.
You will have crop damage and losses occasionally. It is all part of the process when you live organically.
Organic Gardening:
The Rewards for organic gardening are good health, happy hearts and lovely food on the table. Your family and land will be nourished and the pollinators will thrive.
We can all be part of the solution. Home gardens are responsible for much of the overload of chemicals in our rain runoff, streams and city neighborhoods.
Reduce or eliminate the chemicals you use in your yard and garden. And grow herbs, ornamental bushes and flowers organically.
You will enjoy them and so will the pollinators. Not sure how to get started? Look at our 5 tips on growing a pollinator garden and 5 bushes that attract and support birds in your yard.
Each growing year is unique in some way. That’s what keeps this way of life so interesting.
Our Vegetable Garden and Greenhouse:
Dave is our primary gardener. I’m his garden gopher and kitchen chief. 🙂 We also have a garden greenhouse where he grows mostly tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers. With nasturtiums and other flowers to attract pollinators and deter bugs.
In my opinion Kids should definitely have a garden. There is really no better way to teach children about the food chain, life cycles, respect for the good earth and all the things it needs to grow good food.
One of the other challenges of organic gardening is learning to cook and put by what you grow. We have a whole section of the blog devoted to recipes made with garden produce and preserving the harvest.
Organic Living
Make your whole yard organic for a Better Quality life for your Family and Pets.
Children will be healthier rolling around on grass or digging in the dirt without harsh chemicals. Be mindful of all the ways you can protect your family from pesticides and herbicides.
Pets are often impossible to keep off the grass and out of the flower garden. Jenny from Shield My Pet discusses the importance of protecting our pets from harmful chemicals in our yards.
Learn more about the environmental benefits of managing your whole yard organically in this article by US Green Technology. In summary, keeping your yard organic is a worthy effort.
Organic Gardening Posts:
These 12 posts below on Organic vegetable Gardening are full of tips on organic gardening. They will get you started on the organic garden life.
For even more organic gardening information check out our Complete garden and greenhouse section. Happy Gardening.
The Simple tried and true methods and garden projects in these posts will help you out.
12 Organic Vegetable Garden Tips
Learn how to grow a successful organic garden. The posts below all focus on efficient organic gardening methods, helpful garden projects and garden tips to manage your garden well.
Each of these posts will help you make your vegetable garden a beautiful place bursting with healthy crops.
There are a surprising number of considerations when planning a new garden. The first one is where to put it.
Learn how to place your garden in the very BEST place in your yard before you break ground.
Lasagna gardening is the practice of using layers of mulch in a certain way to provide a weed barrier and longterm composting right in your garden beds. It's such a great way to reduce weeding and build garden soil.
Make your own raised garden beds. They are so efficient and make gardening a breeze when properly placed in your garden. We show you how.
Learn how to grow a successful garden year after year.
A very easy DIY project. These homemade strawberry towers will last for years and keep your strawberries easy to control and manage. Great for patios!
One of our favorite methods for growing potatoes is using potato barrels. The barrels are portable, last for years and so useful for many things.
A Simple way to grow potatoes and keep track of them. With just a few materials you can set this tower up.
Pollinators are an essential part of every garden. Learn how to support pollinators in your yard and garden and grow an organic pollinator garden.
Asparagus is one of the best vegetables to grow organically in your own garden. Learn how to set up your own permanent asparagus bed. It will last 20 years with good management and give you delicious fresh asparagus daily through the spring and summer months.
Tomato trellising provides support for the tomato vines as they grow. Tomatoes are easier to harvest and manage when grown on a trellis too. Dave made this double tomato trellis in his greenhouse. It works so well and is easy to make.
Making your own Arbor is often required since your situation is often unique. We show you how we did ours. It's an easy afternoon project and works with several different materials.
Adding hoops to your raised beds allows you to turn those beds in cold frames, protect young starts and tie off tall plants. you can even grow some crops year round with hooped beds.
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Why We Garden Organically - Homemade Food Junkie
Thursday 19th of November 2015
[…] using vinegar and salt on the weeds with limited results.) But the produce we are getting is mostly very lovely and inviting to eat. Also it’s NOT full of chemicals. Nice perk! So it’s a worthwhile way of life. Not a […]
Baked Acorn Squash - Homemade Food Junkie
Friday 6th of November 2015
[…] our garden (except zucchini-I begged!) due to mildew. He’s trying to clear mildew out of the garden. That was not a successful effort so this is the last year we miss our acorn squash patch! We are […]
Baked Acorn Squash - Homemade Food Junkie
Friday 6th of November 2015
[…] our garden (except zucchini-I begged!) due to mildew. He’s trying to clear mildew out of the garden. That was not a successful effort so this is the last year we miss our acorn squash patch! We are […]
Garden Green Juice for Two - Homemade Food Junkie
Sunday 21st of June 2015
[…] up and juice them and enjoy a lovely garden juice, never minding that a few bugs enjoyed them too. Organic means we don’t have to worry about drinking concentrated chemicals that could harm us. But we […]
The Weed War-2015 - Homemade Food Junkie
Saturday 13th of June 2015
[…] to keep our seven plus acre place from totally over growing in grass, weeds and blackberries. In this post on organic gardening, I discuss WHY we go to the trouble to organically garden and hold back the […]