So to help you as a beginner get started with your organic garden, I’ve put together a list of my absolute top organic gardening tips. Last year the blue tits fledged right into the kitchen and our visitors include woodpeckers, nuthatches, coal tits and long tail tits, gold finches and green finches, gold crests, swifts, bats, newts, dragonflies, stag beetles and butterflies – of all sorts – to name but a few.Īnd despite being no gardening expert we manage every year a freezer filling harvest of raspberries, masses of herbs and spinach, peas, courgettes and much more in amongst the flowers. In the summer there is a constant buzz of bees on our lavender. So I’ve learned the hard way by making mistakes – lots of them – but 10 years on, although I don’t have an award winning garden, our two tiny plots – front and back – have become a little wild life haven right in the middle of London. I needed the simplest basics about organic pest control, organic soil and fertiliser and organic weed control but I couldn’t find them. All very fine in theory, but I soon hit a problem: all the organic gardening tips I could find were way too complicated for a beginner like me. The only thing I knew was that I wanted to garden as gently and sustainably as I could and – if possible – to make my garden wildlife friendly. I can promise you that because when I started gardening organically 10 years ago, I had never gardened properly before in my life and to be honest hadn’t got a clue.
They are simple and easy to put into practice in your own garden even if you are totally new to gardening. Totally organic and usable on almost anything.These organic gardening tips for beginners really are organic gardening tips for beginners. That's loaded with beneficial organisms that really help the grass and other plants to unlock the nutrients in the soil. If we lived closer I'd provide you with some freshly made Bokashi juice to spray on the lawn.
You can buy it by the truck load and spread it as needed. Stay away from the chemical fertilizers, if I remember correctly, there is a site in your area that sells high grade organically made compost for fertilizer. This is the type of formula they use in the big hydroseeders that do the highway medians, etc. I use to work in a local farm & garden center that sells huge amounts of grass seed to both homeowners and commercial lawn services. Once established, that should help with a lot of your "weed" issues. You want to encourage the grass to send down a good root system, not work on growing taller. Once the newly planted grass come in, mow on a high setting for the first several times. It dies back in the winter, however, that dieback provides additional nitrogen to the up and coming fescue. The annual rye comes up fast, it will hold the soil in place and help smother out weed seed. If you shallow till that area adding the clay breaker and compost, I'd over seed with additional fescue grass and include some annual rye seed mixed in. Grass needs a ph of about 7 to do well, and especially with our high temps and humidity.
However, if you getting weeds as a replacement, the ph may be off. Did you get a soil test of your lawn? Browning out in the summer is normal with most of fescue type grasses we grow here in VA.
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