How to Start Your Organic Garden from Scratch

An outstanding way to avoid the threat of consuming GMOs, harmful chemicals, pesticides, and toxic additives is to start your home organic garden. The idea of having natural and healthy organic food on your dining table is enough for the start. Growing and preparation of organic garden is not very different from a conventional one. The crucial difference lays in the quality and health benefits of growing your own organic food. I’d like to help you to get to know the basics of how to start your organic garden from scratch.  

How to Start Your Organic Garden from Scratch

Pick the Right Spot            

Think about starting small first. It’s always easier to maintain a smaller gardening space. After you get some practice, you may want to consider transferring to a bigger one. I also started with a small home garden because it took me less work and free time to keep an eye on it.

Prepare the Napping Place (a.k.a. Bed) and Make a Compost Pile

Raised garden beds offer exciting experience especially for gardening beginners. Creating a raised bed can be challenging and creative. Once you make a bed, make sure to border it with either bricks, stone or natural wood in order to separate it from potential toxins. After taking care of the bed, you should use organic materials to make a compost pile. Don’t know what compost is? Nature throws nothing away and organic material is all around you. Compost is made of organic remains and it plays a vital role in organic and bio-gardening alike.

Opt for Organic Soil

The right soil is an engine of organic gardening. It should contain as much organic matter as possible. In this case too much is never enough. Organic soil is soft, loose and fluffy. Among its other significant advantages you will find possibilities of nourishing plants without chemical fertilizers, which helps the plants to be strong and healthy.

Premium Quality Seeds Lead to Successful Organic Gardening

If you have a question like which gardening choice is the most important, the answer would be this one. There is no substitution for choosing 100% organic, non-GMO seeds of many different plant varieties. Now, pay attention because it only gets better. If you choose heirlooms, you’ll be able to reuse them in the future to plant more. Speaking of which, take a look at my interesting overview on how are GMO grown veggies & fruits different from natural, heirloomsor organic.

Perform Regular Maintenance - Don’t Get Lazy

You can either water your garden by hand or use a soaker hose or drip system. If you do it by hand, make sure to water your garden in the morning. This way your plants will make the most of the available water. At the same time, the plants will be well protected from the danger of mold growing on them. There’s a precondition to all this - don’t allow yourself to become lazy and careless. I bet you know the line “you reap what you sow”. You can as well say that you reap how you’ve sown.

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