Bring Nature To You With These Gardening Tips

You probably know quite a bit about organic foods, whether you have read about them, or noticed them at your local supermarket. Organic items are easy to spot on the shelves. It’s usually easy to identify them by the higher price tag and organic labels. Keep reading this article to find some great tips on how to grow an organic garden and stop paying too much at the store.

Choose plants that will give you the most yield at harvest time. Traditional strains are often out-performed by hybrids that have been bred for cold tolerance or disease resistance.

Use your tool handles as rulers in the garden. Tools with long handles, such as a shovel or rake, are absolutely perfect for this job, and make your workload a little bit smaller. Measure the handles with a tape measure laid out in the floor. Mark the measurements with a permanent marker. When the need arises to measure something while in your garden, the measuring tool you need will literally be “on hand,” sketched into the handles of your tools.

When winter comes, you can save a few plants by transferring them inside the house. You should probably save the most resistant or expensive plants. Be careful not to damage the root system as you dig up the plant, and place it in a pot.

Remove your garden’s weeds! Weeds steal nutrients from plants, robbing a garden of its potential harvest. White vinegar is one option you can use in your routine weed removal. Weeds can be killed by white vinegar! Spray white vinegar onto those troubling weeds.

Plant bulbs in your garden if you want flowers through spring and summer. These are hearty choices, choices that will reward you for years despite the little effort that is involved in their care. Different bulbs bloom at various times, so choosing appropriately, you may have blooms early spring to later summer.

All of the gardening advice contained in the tips above is simple and relatively easy to implement. All that is necessary is to apply some of the ideas presented here and monitor their effectiveness. Pay attention to how your plants respond to the methods that you use. Refine your methods as you go! After some time, your neighbors will be envious of you!