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Organic Gardening Diary

Welcome to my organic gardening blog - where I post updates on my garden, the challenges, successes and failures
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Jan 1, 2012

Organic Gardening Book

Find a gardening book from successful organic gardeners. Pioneering authors explain innovative ground breaking methods. Specialised gardening techniques: pruning, propagating, compost, flowers... illustrated by gardening experts.

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Dec 27, 2011

Organic Gardening Blog On The Windowsill

Many of you will grow a selection of fresh herbs on your windowsill and cut them straight into your cooking pot.

But what if pests also take advantage of warmer indoor conditions? What can you do about an infestation of something such as Whitefly?

Using pesticides on your fresh herbs is out of the question. Regular finger and thumb may prove convenient. And a strong jet of water is particularly effective.

But in my kitchen I have an 8 legged companion to help with organic gardening. Indeed 2 big garden spiders around my windowsills have been trapping whiteflies in their webs.

If you don't mind leaving a bit of dust lying around, these mini beasts will help control some windowsill pests for you.

One of my spiders moved to a spot on another windowsill where there are plants. Now however I have cleared them outside into my organic garden.

They are so big and fat after munching through flies that they'll probably survive a cold hibernation that much better.

Do you find that your plants grow long and leggy on the windowsill? Or perhaps they suffer from drafts. The new season is upon us and my page on starting seeds is here to help you.

It's great to get an early start with plants so do consider Grow Lights and propagators.

The link below is on selecting flowers for a winter garden.

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Dec 9, 2011

Select Winter Flowers

Select and grow winter flowers. You'll find what you need to get outside and make your home and garden pretty even in the darkest days. See how you can extend the season with this choice for your winter garden.

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Dec 3, 2011

Organic Gardening Gift Basket

Here's an organic gardening gift basket for earth friendly people. You'll find gift ideas from the Gardener for friends with a healthy organic home & a passion for gardening. Make your gift earth friendly here.

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Oct 25, 2011

Organic Weed Control

Dos and donts of organic weed control. Discover how to control weeds and grow plants organically. Know why garden weeds succeed and how you can prevent them.

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Oct 24, 2011

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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Oct 17, 2011

Organic Gardening, Make Compost & Grow Plants

Discover a healthy, more active life, that saves money with organic gardening Compost, fertilizer, gardening tools & practical methods of growing & handling garden tools are described here.

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Oct 8, 2011

Organic Flowers

Give these attractive organic flowers a place in your garden. Many can be used as cut flowers, some as herbs, and most importantly they protect your garden from pests.

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Oct 8, 2011

Buy Flowers

Do you need to buy flowers when you can grow them? This page shows you some of the plants that make nice arrangements for your home.

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Oct 8, 2011

Patio Gardening

Patio gardening improves your social life. And your patio is an important space to relax in the surrounds of your lovely garden. Get some ideas here on design and growing flowers, and learn how to enjoy your garden.

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Oct 8, 2011

Flowers

Flowers brighten your home, your garden and make life simply wonderful. There's more here about keeping flowers to give and to display in your home.

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Oct 8, 2011

Buy Plants On Offer

Check here before you buy plants. The organic gardener outlines a few essentials of buying plants and includes regular wholesale value plus offers from top horticultural brands

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Oct 8, 2011

Flower Gardening

Find your flower gardening mix here with the help of 8 illustrations. You'll discover how to make your own selection from beautiful flowers. This page considers how to combine plant shapes, sizes, textures... for your landscaping.

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Oct 8, 2011

More Flower Gardening

Find plants for flower gardening with the second 4 of 8 illustrations. You'll discover how to blend your own selection of beautiful flowers. You'll create a distinctive and impressive flower garden with help from these tips on floral garden design.

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Oct 2, 2011

Helping A Community Garden

I do my best to help in a community garden. The blog on the link below reveals a snapshot of local interests and activities around our community garden.

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Oct 2, 2011

Potato Harvest - What is it?

I grow potatoes every year, but this year I found a surprise. On the end of a couple of potato plants are these little round fruits or vegies. I have

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Sep 19, 2011

Perfect Potatoes from the Organic Garden

The day of reckoning has arrived. Later than usual my 2011 second early potato crop 'Juliet' is in. Below I list the tubers by increasing size order.

10 seed potatoes produced 100 tubers totalling about 7 kilograms (over 15 pounds).

Average tuber weight a respectable 70grams (2.5 ounces). Each potato plant produced 10 tubers and 700 grms of potato.

Grown in a raised bed they're all high quality tubers (pictured) virtually scab free - believe me you wouldn't notice it.

Note: the small sized residual makes the grand total even larger.

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  Number of
Tubers in
Size Class
Weight of
Tubers in
Size Class
- Grams.
  10 1690
10 1160
10 760
10 712
10 635
10 530
20 900
20 600
Main
Size Totals  
100 6987
  Small Residual  
Class  
Small Residual
Weight
20 325
12 100
Grand
Totals
132 7412

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Sep 13, 2011

Clean Healthy Carrots Fresh From My Garden Plus...

Perfect carrots are coming up. After my first-up carrots looked half ruined I'm now delighted.

Now this sexy dancing carrot was harvested today. And it looks just how I feel. Because the carrots are coming up perfect. Not a sign of carrot root fly and no splitting. These rows haven't been thinned until now. See my entry for 6th July for an outline of what happened.

The potato harvest from a raised bed is looking great too. More later...

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Aug 31, 2011

Lawn Fertilizer For Top Greens

Find more about organic lawn fertilizer and how to improve your lawns all year around.

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Aug 28, 2011

Onion Garden & Torrential Rain

Heavy rain over the last two days has got me worried about my onions. They need to be ripening in the sun.

More heavy rain and I fear they will begin to rot. At least they will be hard to dry and then more likely to spoil in store.

Picked today
compare size with
a good plum
The leaves on my onions are robust standing upright mostly green. It seems a shame to pull them up. But the bulbs are mostly a good size. It would be worse for them to rot in store.

Today, I weeded out the onions to let every bit of sunlight in and for air to circulate.

Now I need some baking hot days - But more likely I'll have to lift the onions into a bright, warm dry place - my greenhouse shelf - to thoroughly dry them before storage.

Links to The Gardening Sales are here.

Upcoming Webpages
If you're looking for more pictures of plants and gardening I have lots. I'll be posting more on future pages.

Indeed a whole new page devoted to gardening pictures is planned.

And if you want to send me your garden pictures and experiences I'll soon be providing a facility for you to do that here as well.

My section on flower gardening is badly out of date. The whole section is soon to be updated. Here's a sneek preview.

Flowers in an organic garden.

About flowers to grow for cutting.

A page on how to prepare and keep a flower display.
Lots more coming...

I look forward to posting your comments too.

Don't forget, you can contact me here and sign up for my newsletter.

Happy gardening :)

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Aug 22, 2011

Plan Your Future With Gardening

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When you buy a big item with %taken off in the sales, you could save enough money to buy several additonal items too.

For me that means advanced machinery or garden furniture. Plan for your future in the garden - See this link to get money off your garden.

And take advantage of the gardening sales

Happy Gardening :-)

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Aug 12, 2011

Your Garden Tool Shed

Visit my garden tool shed for the essential cutting edge garden tools. You'll find efficient, ergonomic and easy to handle gardening equipment recommended and used by a practical organic gardener. There's also tips on how to get the most from garden tools and how to use them properly and with less effort.

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Aug 11, 2011

Gardening Sales Are On

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Seeds & Plants:Reap the rewards from your garden by with these Summer Season offers ****(do try garlic to protect your organic garden) and
don't forget to plant short season potato tubers in containers now for a Christmas harvest of new potatoes.

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Tidy up your garden now with these tools.

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Pole Trimmers & Multi-function Garden Tools Are So Handy
I love tools like these. One motor to power several specialised tool heads. With all the right tools in one machine you can cut through your job with ease. Find out more and get links for your country here.

You can look optimistically to the future with gardening.
Come back soon and...

Happy gardening :-)

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Aug 10, 2011

Organic Gardening Power Tool

You can do lots of gardening jobs and get a more professional looking finish with help from a gardening power tool. You'll also find information here about versatile interchangeable power tools where one motor does it all.

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