Organic Gardening Fertilizer - Compost ? Danger in the Vegetable Garden

<b>The Pit Controversy</b>

Hello my wonderful gardening chums, it’s Beatrix Potts your, “Organic Gardening Enthusiast.”  First a word or two about our title. When you are given inaccurate and even false information about organic gardening fertilizer your organic vegetable garden may be in terrible danger. Bad information is just as dangerous as cutworms. We are here to set the record straight and give you the most reliable information   available.

<b>More Than Essential</b>

So, on with the show. Beatrix is here to tell you that organic fertilizer, a.k.a. organic gardening compost is the life’s blood of your organic vegetable garden. Organic gardening is incomplete without organic gardening compost.  This is not just an essential element of organic vegetable gardening it is probably the singular most important element. And it is the element that you can produce and control. Understanding organic garden fertilizer will allow you to understand how important the plant’s life is and it will help the soil, insects, and everything that our wonderful vegetables need to grow and thrive.

<b>OK, to Put in Your Compost</b>

Many of my gardening aficionados have written to me and asked, “Beatrix, what can I put into my
compost?” My dear, the answer is quite simple:

1. twigs, hay and straw
2. leaves, grass clippings
3. eggshells, many kitchen scraps
4. formerly fresh fruit,
5. teabags, coffee grounds,
6. and you always want a good mix of “Greens and Browns.”

<b>Greens and Browns in your Compost</b>

Mr. Melvin Potts, our wonderful spouse and “Mr. Organic Gardening Compost Man,” has reminded yours truly to give a plug for the often neglected “Browns.” They are defined as plant matter that was formerly green and has dried and become desiccated and is now as its name implies, Brown. Dried leaves, plants, and dried grass clippings are excellent sources of brown material for your organic gardening compost.

<b>Rule #1</b>

Please remember our Rule #1, anything that comes out of the ground can go back into your compost and eventually back into the ground. And you know of course to never add meat, bones or items with oils, and never ever do we include dog or cat feces.

All of these things will be consumed by microorganisms, insects, nematodes and what Beatrix likes to refer to as the ‘most uncommon earthworm.’

These are the beasties that inhabit your organic compost and they will voraciously consume the vegetable matter and turn it into the nutrients that our plants need to grow.

We always refer to the worms in our garden as, ‘most uncommon.’ You see my dears the earthworms in our garden are the very essence of organic gardening compost machines, and for that reason we refer to them as being 'most uncommon.'

<b>NO PITS</b>

Some would have you believe that compost requires a pit. Beatrix is here to tell you that a “pit” is not entirely necessary. All you need is a flat space of ground where you can put all of your compost materials, this space needs to be where you can provide water, turn the compost and provide a most essential ingredient, air.  You will then eventually put your compost through a screen to get rid of any sticks or extraneous matter.

<b>The Most Efficient Way</b>

It is an absolute fallacy that you need to dig a deep hole for your organic compost. You don’t need some kind of a “pit” to begin the exciting adventure that is making organic gardening compost. What you need is simply a small flat piece of ground to put your compost material on top of.  This is probably the singular and most efficient way to begin making the organic gardening compost that will make your vegetable garden thrive and be absolutely wonderful.

Well, your faithful servant and gardening buddy, Beatrix Potter the "Organic Gardening Enthusiast"  has, unfortunately run out of space, much to your chagrin. In the next volume of, "Danger in the Vegetable Garden" we will be taking a look at, "Garden Tools-Dangerous Instruments that Maim or a Gardener's Best Friend?"

If you want to read more about how Beatrix Potts, Your Organic Gardening Enthusiast can help you make the most wonderful compost, visit my blog, <a  rel="nofollow" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/outgoing/article_exit_link']);" href="http://bpotts.org">The Beatrix Potts Blog</a> and download our FREE Report Compost Secrets.

Until next time I wish you, "Happy Gardening."  Your faithful servant and gardening buddy,

Beatrix Potts.

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Organic Gardening Guide - An Easy And Simple Procedure To Cultivate Your Garden

If you think that having your own organic garden is impossible, for you do not know anything about it, well, you are definitely wrong. Most of the best gardeners out there started with as little knowledge as you. Organic Gardening Guide is very simple; there are now so many gardening websites online that can help you grow organic vegetables at your garden.

To start your own organic garden, you will need organic gardening supply and organic gardening fertilizer. All the materials you will use are mostly organic to be able to grow organic vegetables. All of us know the danger that chemical fertilizers and pesticides brings not only to our plants but to humans and the environment as well. Aside from that, chemicals tend to make the vegetable and fruits in the garden flavorless. If you will only try to compare fruits and vegetables that come in organic garden and ones that grows in traditional garden, you will see the difference in the taste. Chemical fertilizer can harm the bacteria that the soil needs to make vegetables healthy. Pesticides can get rid off the pests that will harm your vegetables but they can also harm other insects that do good things to your plants too. This is why you must only use organic garden fertilizer in your fruits and vegetables.

By using only organic gardening supply and organic garden fertilizer to grow organic vegetables in fruits, you will not only help yourself but you can also help the environment free from the chemicals that can cause pollution.

Since you will only have to use natural materials in your organic gardening, you need to learn about making your own organic fertilizer too, it is very easy. You can also try some different ways of applying your own organic garden fertilizer to make your gardening more fun and easy.

The first thing that you need to learn is the status of your soil, if you already have a fertile soil, then you can just try adding some organic manure to make it ready. You also need to add nitrogen in your organic garden fertilizer. The phosphate content of your organic garden fertilizer should be twice the amount of the nitrogen. With this kind of ration you can be sure that the soil in your garden is healthy and perfect to grow organic vegetables with.

In order to understand the organic gardening guide, you need to have a complete set of organic gardening supply. You must acquire yourself with materials like shovel for scooping the soil, spading for to dig the soil, a pair of gloves to protect your hands, you should also have hoe or pry bar to get the tough stones in the ground.

To prepare the soil for planting you need to dig it and get rid of some of the weed and rocks and with the help of the hoe or pry bar you can get rid of the big stones in your soil. You should prepare the additional materials for your soil like compost and the organic garden fertilizer. You should prepare your organic fertilizer one month in advance to give it a chance to compost more.

You can buy all your organic gardening supply at any gardening store nearest in your area, it is so easy to take care of your organic garden, there are now so many resources where you can get instructions, you just need to be resourceful enough to get them.

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Question by *StrangeByNaturE*: Organic Garden?
I'm tired of always worrying about not washing out all the pesticides, herbicides and god knows what els out of my vegtables. So i decided that i should grow my own vegatebles. But i've never grown anything in my life. Does anyone have any tips that will help me start out right. I want to grow tomatoes, bell peppers, carrots, squash, and possible my own green tea. Where should I go shopping?

Best answer:

Answer by CJ
I can't help you because I know nothing about gardening, but I wanted to commend you on a wise food choice. I try to buy organic as much as possible, and the pesticides and hormones are bad, but even worse than those, are the genetically modified "food" products (frankenfoods!).

Whatever you do, make sure you have products to grow that aren't genetically modified in any way.

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