Healthy and Environmental Friendly Organic Garden

Organic gardening is environmentally friendly. It emphasizes the use of organic soil amendments to improve the nutrient content and physical characteristics of the soil. It creates healthy soil, which in turn, promotes healthy plants less susceptible to disease and insects.

Organic matter contains natural organic complexes that make micronutrients, such as zinc and iron, more available to plants. Growing organically means use only animal or vegetable fertilizers. No Synthetic fertilizers are used.

Organic fertilizers are: hoof-n-horn, cottonseed meal, alfalfa meal, blood meal, and fish emulsion. Organic fertilizers release their nutrients slowly and generally have less soluble salts to damage the soil.

The pesticides most commonly used on lawns and gardens include:

• Herbicides (for killing weeds)
• Fungicides (for destroying fungi)
• Insecticides (for killing insects)

Green tip - Recycle spent plant materials for compost.

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