Articles and Tips December, 2011
Gifts for the Organic Gardener
It is getting to the point where, if you don’t have a gift for your special someone, it is almost too late. However, you can still get some good deals out there, and, with express shipping, you can still make it happen: that MasterCard commercial with the trampoline, Kleenex and paper bag, oh and the door opening to show two brand new cars. If you can’t get two brand new …
Weeding Your Organic Garden
Dandelion WeedWhen I first started my present organic garden, it had been totally farmland and therefore, it was full of weeds. It had no shape. It was like a typical farmers field, bumpy ground and obnoxious weeds. At first I felt rather daunted and overwhelmed by the job of creating this nightmare into an English Cottage garden. As I have lived in England, I knew what I …
Organic Method of Starting Seeds – Eggshells!
I have discovered a handy way to use eggshells in starting my garden seeds. I use this method in my organic garden, as it gives back to the earth.
Advantages of this method include good moisture retention needed for germination, along with avoiding transplanting shock, since seeds are moved, “pot” and all.
If you would like to try this method, then follow these simple steps:
Take one egg and cut a …
Organic Gardening Never Changes
Gardening in the ‘Good Old Days’.
I have just been reading about gardeners in the 18th and 19th centuries, and I have been quite amazed at the similarity of the problems that gardener’s face today.
Organic gardening was alive and well in those days, as I outline in my soon to be released ebook “How To Master Organic Gardening.”
Although, I think,the double purpose of a garden has been …
Black Spot Fungus on Roses
Signs of Black Spot
I think all fledgling gardeners and those who have more experience, know the dreaded signs of “black spot”. You see the black spots on your rose leaves and sometimes yellowish edges on the leaves.
How can you save your favorite rose plants?
Black spot fungus attacks only roses. Those black spots that are found on the leaves are the actual fungus itself, not dead spots, …
Welcome to Ena’s Garden
Welcome to Ena’s Garden where together we will uncover what works and what doesn’t when creating an environmentally friendly organic garden.
To the left is my organic garden as seen from the edge of my yard.
I am a Master Gardener specializing in organic gardening and for 20 years I have been working with not only my own organic gardens but helping people with their organic gardens as well.
Here at GoOrganicGardening.com I will share with …
