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June 6, 2010 by admin
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I just started an organic garden in my backyard. I have planted tomotoes, cucumbers, cantalope, yellow squash, bell peppers, lettuce and oregano so far.
Any advice or helpful hints for growing healthy, pest and chemical free vegies? I don’t want the bugs to take up the plants and I do NOT want to spray chemicals.
Other than weeding and watering, what else should I be doing to help them grow huge and delicious?
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Talk to them?
ferdilizers and plant food aslo do not let any bugs get on the lettuce or they will eat it to srheds
Just keep up with your garden – the plants will grow themselves with only the slightest attention from you!
Tomatoes and peppers like lots of hot sun, so make sure they’re not shaded. And give the tomatoes something for support – like some stakes or one of those cone-shaped wire cages. The lettuce needs lots of shade, or it will seed (a stalk will shoot out of the middle of it), which makes it taste bitter. Keep it and the melons well-watered.
Bugs shouldn’t be too much of a problem in a small, new garden. look online or get a library book on organic gardening for lots of solutions to any pest problem you might encounter!
Good luck!
If you come up with a way to keep bugs off your veggies w/o chemicals, PATENT IT.
You should be looking into ways to control bugs organicaly. Also be thinking about ways to improve your soil. In most cases you don’t start off in ideal soil, depending on where you live. I would also look into heirloom veggies for next year. I personally think they were better tasting back before we started going for size, color and shelf life. Also do a lot of reading because there is a whole lot to learn.
plant items that attract beneficial bugs!! these will eat the bad bugs so you don’t have to worry about them!!
To help keep down weeds and hold in moisture, mulch your garden with an organic mulch like shredded cypress or cedar.
To help control pests, call around and find a garden center that carries lady bugs. They usually cost less than $10, and you can release them in your garden and they will eat aphids and the eggs of most garden pests. Preying mantis eggs will work also ( after they hatch, of course).