Organic Gardening DOs & DON'Ts.

[julian]

Organic Gardening DOs & DON'Ts

Manage the whole garden organically - not just the fruit and vegetables
Make the garden 'wildlife friendly', encouraging natural creatures to control pests.
Learn to distinguish pests from predators
Play to your garden's strengths, capitalising on its particular characteristics
Make soil care a priority
Make compost and leafmould to feed the soil
Reuse and recycle, to cut down the use of finite resources and reduce disposal problems
Use organically grown seeds as far as possible
Consider the environmental implications when choosing materials for hard landscaping, fencing, soil improvement and so forth
Collect rain water, and reduce the need for watering by improving the soil and growing appropriate plants
Make local sources your first choice
Stop using slug pellets!
Control weeds without herbicides
Avoid the use of preservative treated wood
Say 'NO' to genetically modified varieties

[biscombe]

HI Julian! Great post, thanks for that! I'm 100% organic, all for it! My OH used to live in Bournemouth where abouts are you from?

[crazy1]

Alot oph good points there julian.

[julian]

biscombe said:

HI Julian! Great post, thanks for that! I'm 100% organic, all for it! My OH used to live in Bournemouth where abouts are you from?

Hi biscombe,
What a small world that your OH used to live in Bournemouth.I live in Northbourne which comes under Ensbury Park.Glad everyone found this post useful

[Compost Pharmer]

Thanks Julian. The one tip I like the best is: Control weeds without herbicides. But they are all great. Thanks for posting

[deb65802]

We have to take care of our planet. There is not like we have anywhere else to move.

[Compost Pharmer]

Ditto to deb.