When you want to start a garden:

1. Find a good spot for your garden that has good light and good soil.
2. If the soil is not suitable for gardening, you can improve it by adding materials such as:
   • sand (to improve drainage)
   • organic matter:
     • peat moss (for improving fertility & the soil's pH)
     • manure (for fertilizing & loosening soil)
   • fertilizer (organic or chemical)
3. Select the plants or seeds that you would like in your garden. Make sure you consider the hardiness of the plant for the climate you live in. Also consider how much light the plants need.
4. Read instructions on the seeds packets, or consult reference books for proper planting times, spacing, and care.
5. After planting, mulch your garden to conserve moisture. Water your plants as needed.

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Using organic products you can protect your family and pets from harmful chemicals and save you time and money. You can grow the healthiest, most vigorous lawn, landscape and garden on the block.

1. No pesticides and insecticides - synthetic pesticides pollute the environment, kill beneficial organisms and don't control pests effectively on a long term basis.

2. Conserve / recycle resources by composting vegetable scraps and using animal manure for fertilizer. Increase the organic matter in the soil with compost and 100% organic fertilizers. Let the fertile soil feed the plants.

3. Use organic fertilizers - synthetic fertilizers feed the plants in a forced, unbalanced way. Have your soil tested for nutrients and Ph level by a lab that gives organic recommendations, to learn the total and available levels of organic matter and minerals. Use rock powders to increase trace minerals: best materials are from volcanic activity such as granite, lava sand and zeolite. Greensand, colloidal phosphate and glacial rock powder are also effective.

Guidelines: Use 100% organic fertilizer to turf and planting beds in early spring at 20 lbs/1000 sq. ft. Repeat every 60 to 90 days during the growing season if greater response is needed (Three applications per year is normal.) Apply rock powders annually at about 40-80 lbs/1,000 sq. ft. Add fish meal or kelp meal at 10-20 lbs/1,000 sq. ft. to annuals and perennials in the spring and every 60-90 days if needed during the growing season. Add a small handful of soft rock phosphate to each hole when planting bulbs or small transplants.

4. Mulch to conserve moisture and keep down unwanted vegetation. Mulch preserves moisture, eliminates weeds and keeps the soil surface cooler, which benefits earthworms, micro-organisms and plant roots.

Application: Cover bare soil around plants with natural mulch such as shredded tree trimmings, shredded hardwood bark and leaves, pine needles, etc. For shrubs, trees and ground covers, use at least 1" of compost and 3" of shredded native tree trimmings or shredded hardwood bark. Mulch vegetable gardens with 8" of partially completed compost or alfalfa hay.

5. Encourage life and biodiversity with companion planting, re-introduce beneficial insects, and protect benefical insects that exist, such as ladybugs, earthworms, green lacewings, and trichogramma wasps.

6. Water in the early morning hours, and adjust schedule seasonally to allow for deep, infrequent waterings in order to maintain an even moisture level and encourage deeper roots.

Guidelines: Monitor using a water gauge and including natural rainfall, about 1" of water per week in the summer is a good starting point. For foliar feeding, use a siphon attachment to apply a light application of seaweed or compost tea when possible.

7. Weeding - hand-pull large weeds, weekly shallow cultivation of soil to expose sprouting weed roots to the air, mulching of all bare soil, and work on soil health improvement for overall weed control. Apply corn gluten meal in the Spring and Fall to control annual weeds such as grass burrs.

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Basis of Ecological Gardening, Farming and Organic Foods
The New Millenium Ecological Organic Fertilizer


• Biological and organic fertilizers doesn't have, for instance: biologic nitrogen fixation, phosphorus decomposition, potassium decomposition, bio-control, biotic activation, and energy transforming.
  
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  silicon, calcium, magnesium, sulfur, copper, zinc, manganese, molybdenum and boron, as well as many indispensable bioactive substances such as biotin, vitamin, growth hormone, antibiotics and amino acid. It has much more nourishment than common fertilizer has.

Resources for Organically Growing Fruits & Vegetables,
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