Organic Gardening Guide

Organic gardening usually refers to gardening practices that do not use chemical pesticides.

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This guide provides information covering a variety of organic garden basics.

The albums listed in the Garden images box on the right point to pictorial essays covering the fauna and flora of a variety of yards across the United States. They are helpful tools for anyone making garden and landscaping decisions.

The articles listed on this page lean to practical organic garden planning, especially with respect to vegetable gardening. The first set of articles seal with soil.

Healthy soil is the foundation for any organic garden. Two articles, Types of Soil and Easy Organic Raised-bed Gardening, provide insight into this critical aspect of both vegetable and flower garden planning.

Organic gardening also means adopting natural (or pesticide free) pest management practices. Organic Pest Management offers an overview of insect, plant and insectcide strategies for dealing with garden pests.

Flower Seed Packs for Pest Management reviews the claims of flower seed pack producers who market their products as natural pest management tools.

Because single vegetables or group of vegetables attract different pests, organic remedies are often plant or plant family specific. The articles,

• Care for Raspberry and Blackberry Plants
• Growing Tomatoes
• Growing Zucchini
• Organic Pest Management for Chile Peppers
• Organic Spittlebug Control for Strawberries
• Winter Garden Vegetables

provide fast facts for successfully growing these popular vegetables and fruits.

Gardening is often as much about planning as it is about hands on growing practices. The articles Caring for Your Garden Tools: The Flat Mill File, How to Compost and Winter Garden Planning offer helpful planning tips.

Is Your Salad Organic
The average lunch or dinner salad approaches All-American food status, however, the odds of it being organic are very low.

Organic Farming and BT Crops
Do BT crops pose problems for organic farmers?

Tomato Fruit or Vegetable?
Defining a tomato is a difficult task.

World Bank Going Organic
The World Bank is supporting more organic agricultural research and production in states around the world.