Will it be safe to eat the stuff we are going to grow? It seems weird to me. We are doing a veggie/fruit garden over my mom's house and she wants to put "organic fertilizer" (POOP!) in the dirt. What is the proper way to do this? This is the first time I've grown anything so any tips would be helpful! Thanks!
You can however…with what cows and horses are fed these days..the manure isn't that rich in anything that benefits the plants. Your best bet is to go to a nursery and buy some bagged fertilizer. Fertilizing also in the heat will burn your plants.. so do so wisely.
Can anyone recommend how to grow organic vegetables? Does NEEM oil work as a pesticide?
I have a 35 square meter field in Tokyo next to farms that use pesticides and fertilizers. This is only my second year and my yield for various plants is small. I lose entire crops to various insects (not birds or animals). All the farmers around me insist I must use fertilizer and pesticide. Can anyone recommend natural pesticides and fertilizers that might be available in Japan? I heard Neem oil is effective as a pesticide for some plants. I grow: daikon radish, radishes, broccoli, various beans, onions, scallions, carrots, leafy vegetables, and several others seasonally. Any guidance would be appreciated.
Neem oil works great. I also use regular dish soap (about 5 ml soap per 750 ml water)-great for aphids and leaf borers. I recently started growing vegetables using hydroponics. Less work, fewer bugs, greater control and higher yields.
True organic pest control=insects that will control or eliminate your pests and leave your crops alone. No chemicals at all. There are several hydroponic companies that do business on the internet-not only do they sell fertilizers and pesticides, but they also sell beneficial insects. Here in the US, we have a federal agency that regulates agricultural products and imports. I don't know about Tokyo, but would imagine that you have something similar.
Quick!!!How does growing organic food benefit the the enviroment?
yes, of course! organic food means they plnt the food witout using any pesticides or harmful chemical. it's called organic food when there is about 75% of the source and ingredients is 100% pure means no chemical. so, when it's no pesticides and chemical, it totally safe the envinronment! no air pollution (the particle release by the chemical) and no acidic soil that can make seedling cannot grow up….
Starting an organic vegie garden but renting. Any tips also I'm in a cold/average climate?
I'd like to start an organic vegetable garden but am renting so I need to be able to get rid of it when I leave here (could be in 6 months to a year). One thought has been to plant in pots so I need to know what and when to plant in pots as I don't think I can dig up their backyard (even though it's a mess of weedy grass).
Also can I plant pumpkins on a grassy sloping hill? I guess pumpkins wont require much soil preparation but that's only a guess.
I live in a coolish climate (on a mountain), in Tasmania Australia so it's Summer right now. Sunny almost every day but also windy and quite a lot of rain.
If anyone can help I would really appreciate it. Even if I can just grow a few things in some pots I would be happy but I am an amatuer.
Are the grow bags 'organic' veggie friendly?
There are some really helpful answers and I don't know who to pick! Thank you 🙂
I agree – see if they'll let you do up the garden.
But if they won't, I recommend using growbags.
We're in a rented place and the garden is all concreted over so we don't even have the choice to ask. But we grew loads of courgettes, tomatoes and cucumbers last year using growbags, dwarf beans and sugarsnap peas in pots, and lettuces and spring onions in windowboxes. It was our first time, but we got great results!
For pumpkins, I'd say plant them in a growbag and just let them spread down the hill. They are quite heavy feeders, but with a growbag the soil is already prepared for you, with all the nutrients they need!
If you want to grow potatoes, use a dustbin with holes and stones in the bottom for drainage. Plant three seed potatoes about halfway down, then as they grow cover the plants up with more and more soil until you reach the top (this makes the plant put out more and more roots, thus more and more potatoes!). To harvest, just tip the whole lot out!
It doesn't have to be as scientific and complex as the answerer above describes; just go somewhere that sells seeds, choose some varieties you fancy (for best results go for those that say they're pest resistant, disease resistant or highly productive), and plant them whenever it says on the pack.
Good luck!
Fruit Trees Part 1, homesteading, food storage, peak oil
Robert Henry of the Survival Report brings you the first of a series of videos on starting out with fruit trees. He includes tips on buying the right types of trees for your area, how to care for them, irrigation solutions as well as information on diseases and treatments.
With the ever growing possibility of an economic collapse or depression and with food shortages currently being a daily news item, now more than ever it’s important to works towards some level of self-sufficiency with your food supply. Long term storage of foods is very important but also is the ability to produce food and preserve it.
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