Organic Garden Blog
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Gardening Catalog
Fertilizer Essentials
Organic Fertilizer
Grow From Seeds
Grow With Compost
Weed Control
Organic Pest Control
Runner Beans
Grow Potatoes
Garden Shredders
Tool Shed
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Organic Gardening for Your Home
with practical gardening tips

Welcome to organic gardening, the way to choice fresh food and a healthy more sustainable lifestyle. You'll want to enjoy all of nature's garden delights around your house and home.

From fragrant fresh flowers and honey, to tasty restorative herbs, and the natural vitamins of your own fresh fruit and veg. When you grow your own it's your choice...
<<   So why not take a look at the main plots on this website.

You'll discover how a measure of independence and a beautiful garden can be yours, starting right outside your door.

Beautiful Romanesco Cauliflower 'Cellio' F1 hybrid First Strawberry plate in May

Crunchy to eat & they say it has more health value than your ordinary nutritious cauliflower



Good tools make gardening easy find them here...

My Gardening Diary (Blog) is here.


This website is dedicated to my father
an experienced gardener & groundsman
I'd like to show you a range of organic gardening methods to help you turn your dream garden into reality and keep it growing. My pages will help you select the right means and suitable tools for your choice of plants and garden site.

You can turn your small plot into fresh cut flowers and fresh fruit like strawberries and honeyberries... And a freezer full of: blackcurrants, redcurrants, blueberries, and gooseberries...; plus juicy plums, and apples in store - more webpages are coming...

You'll enjoy readily available: potatoes, tomatoes, beans, beetroot, onions, cauliflower, salad leaves, oriental vegetables, rhubarb, herbs and more...
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All from my small home garden. And organic gardening gives me healthy exercise and my choice of garden tools makes it really light work too.

For many of you, instead of being a job, hobby or chore, organic gardening is a lifestyle - one that rewards with health and a beautiful garden. There's much to learn and enjoy and thanks to your support my website is growing too.

For the main gardening plots check the links in the left margin or the selection of pages in the list below.




Organic Garden Blog
My organic gardening blog keeps you updated with all additions and changes at the Home of The Organic Gardener. Subscribe here.

Contact the Organic Gardener
Fellow Gardeners & Earth friendly people, Website owners & Advertisers can contact home of the organic gardener here.

Gardening Catalog Summary for Organic America
Review of online gardening catalog s goes straight to the practical stuff you need for gardening, saving you time and money. Take the green approach here.

Garden Fertilizer
How does garden fertilizer help your organic garden? Most fine flowers, hungry vegetables, and luscious fruit produce best with fertilizer. So it's normally essential - and you'll find the right stuff and how to use it here.

Organic Fertilizer & Soil Amendments
Use organic fertilizer to grow strong healthy plants. Natural steady growth gives you the great tasting luscious plants that you want - especially good for lawns.

Growing More With Garden Seeds
Variety, choice, & substantial cost saving; just a few benefits of growing garden seeds yourself at home. Start here to bring your home garden alive from seed

My compost bin works
More on making compost, compost bin and worm bin designs

Organic Weed Control
Dos and donts of organic weed control. Discover why weeds succeed and how to control them organically.

Organic Pest Control
Replace pesticides with organic pest control. Be aware and build natural pest control into your organic gardening design and activities

Growing Runner Beans
Check out my tips on growing runner beans for a nutritious crop that fits into any garden. You can get a bountiful crop for freezing

Growing Potatoes
Gardeners are growing potatoes again because choice & flavour beat all you can buy. Get the tips that deliver a big crop plus links to alternative space saving & easy ways of growing on patios & yard.

About garden shredders
garden shredders are a big help with garden waste - compare the designs and how they are used here

Garden Shed Tools & Sheds
Find how garden shed tools are designed for garden work. Also, how to use garden tools in your garden, & something on garden sheds.

Flower Gardening
Enjoy natural beauty around your home with organic flower gardening. Cultivation & organic style include some easy gardening techniques.

Growing Lawns - organic alternatives and traditional
Styles for growing lawns described here:- Ornamental, Utility, Wild Flower, Lazy Lawns... With organic lawns you can be formal & traditional or beautifully relaxed - plus more links to lawn info...

Garden Mulch
Save time weeding, protect & improve the soil. Find out how garden mulch is key to better organic gardening & - no dig gardening - .

Plant & Garden Watering - the Organic System
Save on garden watering with the techniques described here. These organic gardening methods are becoming more critical as droughts become more frequent.

transplanting shrubs
Practical know-how about transplanting shrubs - find out before you start

About organic gardening
What is organic gardening about?

Organic Gardening Web Site Links
Useful links to gardening web site information & products for organic gardening

Essentials of compost making
How compost making works.

making compost at home
Try making compost at home for seeds, growing on, and pots

Versatile Garden Tools
Get more from your garden tools, much more... This page describes the specialised and highly efficient garden tools system that I use

Organic Mulch
Learn about organic mulch here - homemade mulch, agricultural & forestry mulch. See my recommendations on how to use & not to use organic mulch in your garden

Lawn mowers and the green challenge
Shows how modern lawn mowers meet various green challenges from fine lawns to slopes and roughs. To help you select the right mowing machine. An organic view makes jobs do-able

Lawn Mowing in Practice
Raise your gardening with tips & tricks of lawn mowing. You don't have to be an organic gardener. Learn the 'straight forward' approach with various lawn mowers & lawns

Flame Weeder
Explains how to use a flame weeder in your garden, different types of flame weeders & how they work,

How to use a garden fork...
How to properly use your garden fork. Wth information on types of forks, etc...

Pruning Trees, Shrubs & Fruit
Correct pruning promotes flowers & fruit; tidies, maintains shape & health, of shrubs

Organic Gardening Power Tool
You can do lots of gardening jobs more easily. This gardening power tool is versatile because you can interchange many tools onto one motor - go from cultivator to hedge trimmers.

How To Clear Fall Leaves & Tidy Garden
Tidy the garden, pick up fall leaves more easily, & do something really useful like - make compost

Leaf Mold
Leaf mold is one of the best organic materials for making seed and potting compost. Find out how here.

The Ornamental Gourd
A packet of gourd seeds yeilds an interesting variety of decorative fruit. This page, with pictures, describes how I grow & prepare them.

Traditional Garden Composting
Composting with larger composters usually of timber construction is described here with examples. You can make a good traditional heap - the essential of organic gardening in medium to larger gardens.

Garden tool review of spades & forks
Compare the latest garden tool designs of spades & forks. A review by the organic gardener includes new & specialised tools.

Plant Catalogs
You can have an amazing garden when you get planting. This page details a few top plant catalogs available online.

Top Gardening Catalogs Reviewed
Save fuel miles, time & money. Check out these online gardening catalogs

Manure
Manure is rich source of nutrients & great soil improver. Learn how to use it here.

Comparing fruit and veg growing
Growing fruit and veg? Which is the easiest and most productive by far? Find out here.


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