Gardening Reference

This is a book about delight…about love and laughter and saving the planet, and saving money at the same time. It is about enriching the soul and strengthening the body. It is about ducks and how to live in harmony in a productive organic garden: building a shed, fencing, establishing a pond or two and stocking it all with happy, healthy ducks – and all of it based on the author’s own experience.

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87 Page Step-by-step Gardening Manual For Beginners To Learn How To Grow Their Own Healthy, Organic Food – Saving Money And Eating Chemical Free! Great Bonuses With This E-manual. Revised Edition Just Released.

If you’re like me you probably hate the idea of eating foods (and providing them for your family) that may have been grown with chemicals.

Not only that, but the foods you buy from the supermarket may have been hanging around for days or even weeks before you buy them. This means that the life energy of the plant you’re going to eat is gone. When you eat something that is still living you absorb its life energy, which has additional health benefits.

And if you’re buying “organic”, you are probably paying through the nose for your fruit and vegetables and you really have to trust in the person you’re buying from that it is truly organic.

Here’s a fact for you:

More>> Organic Food Gardening Beginners Manual.

Maria Rodale, the third generation of the family that originated the organic gardening movement in the United States, has written a comprehensive and easy-to-use guide to designing and planting an organic garden that is both beautiful and productive. Conveniently divided by season, the book includes delicious recipes. 600 full-color photos and 50 color illustrations.

Maria Rodale, who comes to organic gardening naturally–her father and grandfather, who founded Rodale Press, were famously passionate organic gardeners–felt for many years that while there was plenty of good information about organic gardening, there was neither an existing primer that taught all the very basics nor a book that showed that organic gardening can be a beautiful, sophisticated way to plant. (”Admit it, you thought that if you were an organic gardener, you needed to have black plastic mulches and Read more…

The Organic Gardener’s Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control: A Complete Problem-Solving Guide to Keeping Your Garden and Yard Healthy Without Chemicals

End your worries about garden problems with safe, effective solutions from The Organic Gardener’s Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control!

* Easy-to-use problem-solving encyclopedia covers more than 200 vegetables, fruits, herbs, flowers, trees, and shrubs
* Complete directions on how, when, and where to use preventive methods, insect traps and barriers, biocontrols, homemade remedies, botanical insecticides, and more Read more…

“Soil Humus”

Organic matter benefits soil productivity not because it is present, but because all forms of organic matter in the Soil Humus, including its most stable form—humus—are disappearing. Mycorrhizal fungi and beneficial bacterial colonies around plant roots can exist only by consuming soil organic matter.

The slimes and gums that cement soil particles into relatively stable aggregates are formed by microorganisms as they consume soil organic matter. Scats and casts that are soil crumbs form only because organic matter is being consumed. If Soil Humus declines, the entire soil ecology runs down and with it, soil tilth and the health and productivity of plants.

If you want to manage your garden soil wisely, keep foremost in mind that the rate of humus loss is far more important than the amount of humus present. However, natural processes remove humus without our aid or attention while the gardener’s task is to add organic matter. So there is a very understandable tendency to focus on addition, not subtraction. But, can we add too much? And if so, what happens when we do? Read more…