One Magic Square: The Easy, Organic Way to Grow Your Own Food on a 3-Foot Square

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A Hands-On Guide to Growing Organic Vegetables, Fruits and Herbs—Starting with Just One Square Yard!

Lolo Houbein has been growing food for more than 30 years—and now, drawing on her wide learning and hard-earned experience, she offers a wealth of information on how to turn small plots of land into sources of nourishing, inexpensive, organic food. Amateur gardeners wondering how to get started and veteran gardeners looking for new ideas will be inspired by Houbein’s practical, often charming, and always optimistic advice. One Magic Square includes:
Earth-friendly tips, tricks, and solutions for establishing and maintaining an organic gardenIllustrated, annotated plans for 30 plots with different themes—including perennials and “pick-and-come-again” plants, anti-cancer and anti-oxidant-rich vegetables, and salad, pizza, pasta, and stir-fry ingredientsComprehensive information about every plant in every plotColor photographs of the author’s own garden—plus help

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How to Start an Organic Garden

Maintaining and planting an organic garden all on your own is indeed a rewarding process. While most of the steps that go into making a new organic garden would be very similar to starting just any other type and genre of garden, there are certainly a few notable differences.

For instance, you need to put in a lot more effort up front; you need to be into planning and also analyzing the entire gardening site. This effort is imperative for any kind of organic garden. Hence, an organic garden will demand a more hands on approach from you in terms of involvement.

Decide your goals first: What do you want to do with the organic garden or what are you specifically looking for? Are you looking for the organic garden to put up a pretty face before your home or are you looking at the organic garden to grow some vegetables and fruits for you that will be healthy?

You must decide your goals and expectations before you start working on the garden. The expectations will form the base of the organic garden eventually.

Decide on the garden site: This is a critical step as the productivity of the organic garden will depend on the quality of the site you choose. Obviously, you must choose the most suitable site for your organic garden.

Few indicators might of some help. If you are looking to grow vegetables and fruits, then the site must receive at least 6 hours of direct sunlight each day. Hence, decide upon what you want your organic garden to do and choose the most suitable site.

Create the Bed: You must begin digging after you have determined the site that will be used for organic gardening. First and foremost, decide on the size and shape of the organic garden. To perform this, you need to put down a typical garden hose and adjust the hose well. Also, very critically, you have to clean the area of any kind of grass, bush, or shrubs.

Amend the soil: As good quality soil is imperative for a good organic garden, you must amend the soil, if it is required. The best way to go about it is to add some compost to the soil. The compost can be prepared on your own or you can have some store deliver the compost at your doorstep. You can have the soil tested for nutrients and acidity.

You must continue to nurture the organic garden long after you have laid the foundation of the garden. Taking the greatest care of the organic garden will result in an increased productivity and the garden will be able to give good returns for all the efforts you have put in.

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