Perk Up Your Garden With These Handy Tips.

Holistic lifestyles are starting to become more popular, and people are starting to live more organically. Those who live this lifestyle grow their own foods for their health benefits and they tend to do this via organic gardening. Read through this article to learn what you need to do when it comes to organic gardening.

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Choose plant strains that will give you the best harvest with the biggest yield. Normally, hybrid plants that are disease-resistant and cold-tolerant have a greater yield than traditional varieties.

Try to grow some wheat or cat grass around your cat's favorite plants. Offensive smells also work to repel cats and other pesky animals from eating your plants. Try putting mothballs, citrus peels, garlic and other pungent items on the topsoil.

Get a slug-proof variety of perennials. If slugs or snails find their favorite perennials in your garden, they'll snack all night. When you wake up in the morning, there will be very little left of your plants. They gravitate towards perennials with smooth thin leaves, particularly on younger plants. You can discourage snails and slugs from eating your perennials by choosing plants with tougher or distasteful foliage. Examples of these include euphorbia, hellebourus and achillea. Others you may want to consider are campanula and heuchera.

If your plants have a powdery mildew, don't use expensive chemicals on them. Mix plain baking soda with a small bit of liquid soap and water. Once a week, spray this solution on your plants and your mildew should disappear in no time. This is a natural solution for ridding your plants of mildew safely.

When winter arrives, you can save some plants by placing them in your home. You can save the ones you spent the most money on or the ones that are resistant. Carefully dig up the plants, using caution not to disturb the roots, then transfer into a pot.

Keep your garden fertilized. Manure can be very helpful in growing plants, but it is essential to use a commercial product that has been composted, in order to minimize pathogen risk. Although there are plenty of fertilizer choices, don't be concerned with which one you use; just be sure to use one.

There are natural materials, and you can also use other plants to help keep pests away from your garden. Slugs stay away from marigolds and onions when they are planted in a garden. Another way to get rid of pests is to spread wood ash at ground level around shrubs and tree plantings. You can avoid using pesticides that contain harsh chemicals if you employ these techniques.

While you garden, it's important that you wear the right clothing to protect your skin from the damaging rays of the sun. Put on some sunglasses, sunscreen and a wide-brimmed hat. Protecting yourself from the sun will lower the possibility of sunburn and skin cancer.

Easily and quickly prepare your ground for a garden of perennials. You just need to use your garden spade for slicing underneath the turf, then flip it, and finally spread about three or four inch deep piles of wood chips. Wait two weeks, then dig in and plant the new perennials.

The more you understand about organic gardening methods, the better prepared you will be to grow a lush, natural garden that provides both beauty and sustenance. Keep in mind that the tips you have read are just the beginning point.

These days, the planet is trying to find solutions to a series of worldwide problems unprecedented in their scale and complexity: food scarcity, malnutrition, climate modify, rural poverty, environmental protection all among them. With unprecedented interest in African agriculture, business and governments are moving towards harnessing the continent’s vast possible.