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The Truth about Organic Gardening
Nature will tell you what to do if you observe your garden carefully.
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How I became an Organic Gardener with a Tomato
The taste of that chemical tomato still lingers and that makes me more determined than ever to try my hand at organic gardening.
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A Home Garden without any Toxic Spray
I love home gardening- it really is a passion with me. But there is an area of gardening that I find difficult to come to terms with – spraying for pests and diseases. We all know that toxic sprays damage the environment. But it damages our own gardens too. It upsets the delicate balance of nature and as a result, you find yourself having to use poisonous sprays and fertilizers more and more. Obviously this has a toxic build-up and there are side effects. Not only are poisonous sprays dangerous to human health; they make your pets suffer too. All this can spoil any gardening experience. And that is why…
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The Great Pumpkin Adventure
The Great Pumpkin Adventure is a success story of great magnitude. Or put another way; small beginnings lead to great results. I’m talking about pumpkins – yes, the ordinary garden variety. And this is how it happened. I kept a few pumpkin seeds from a really good pumpkin we had bought at the supermarket. And like Jack and the beanstalk the day arrived when I decided to plant them. Just 6 seeds at the bottom of my garden. Now the garden is slightly sloped so they were out of sight and I forgot about them until a few weeks later when I saw some big healthy pumpkin leaves. It didn’t…