Worm Farming and Organic Gardening
Worm Farming and organic gardening are both excellent hobbies that go hand in hand. You can grow big beautiful flowers or delicious food for your table. This may not be everybody's cup of tea so think yourself lucky if you are among those who can produce green things out of the blue. Before you start organic horticulture, there are several things, that you must be clear about, what is the type of land you have? What do you want to produce? How do you plan to take care of your plants?
Worm farming and organic gardening may seem puzzling to a beginner but if you are an experienced hand, then these aspects are already familiar to you and you could comfortably begin the organic way to grow things. First of all, organic gardening is different from the your every day sort of gardening.
The essential rule behind organic horticulture is that it uses only natural products, insecticides are out. This includes using horticulture ingredients like pesticides and plant foods. You can actually find from the earth what you require then use it for your organic venture into gardening.
Can fertilizers also be organic?
In case you question if there is ever such a thing, you would be surprised to know that you can make it yourself with your own easy to build worm farm or compost heap. You can actually perform composting on the waste found on your garden. Fallen leaves, twigs and animal muck - all this can be utilized but will depend on the type, and other elements.
Organic Pesticides
Organic horticulture needs least use of chemical substance pesticides. But if you can't afford to chose the insects one by one by your bare hands, then you can go to your local food market store and ask for an organic pesticide that is available commercially. The conventional way to go about it is to remain alert and kill the insects, as soon as you see them. Depend on organic pesticide when the insects are too many in numbers and you cannot control the situation yourself. Another way is to let in animals, which enjoy to feed on these garden pests. This way, you'll have some help in cleaning those pests up and this also helps the other animals fulfill their hunger.
As is evident, all these things take up a lot of time and unless you can devote as much time to this pursuit, or find someone who can partner the responsibilities, it is wise to drop the thought altogether till such times that you are more organized with manpower and time. Organic horticulture is a laborious process so you have to be prepared to face the hardship. If you feel over-exhausted during the process, simply think about how much good you are helping nature. This is a simple way to thank nature for all the goodness that has been presented to you since birth.
