Studying Your Organic Garden
by John Yazo
Organic gardening is a natural method of gardening, it involves working closely with nature. Weeds, wildlife like birds, toads and insects all play a very important role in this method of gardening. It is a balanced, natural environment that your plants can thrive in without the use of chemicals.
Studying and watching all the natural life that is involved is an organic garden can be fascinating. The animals, fungi, insects and all the complex community of microorganisms that work the soil to create nutrients and improve the soil structure of your garden for your plants to thrive is an amazing natural method that nature has the ability to provide.
Take the time to carefully watch and study all these forms of life in your garden. Thoroughly exam your plants, under there leaves, there stems, the soil around them, the insects crawling around and look under mulch you have in your garden to check for other insects that are harboring there. Studying and learning all the forms of life that are a part of these insects life, from there egg form to there adult life. Watch to see what these insects eat. Weeds are another part of organic gardening, learn to identify them from when they are small seedlings just emerging through the soil. Learning to identify them at the earliest stages of there life cycle will make it easier to control them.
Learning all the stages of life for both weeds and insects will greatly benefit you in the control of both. Insects can be stopped at there egg stage by simply wiping them from the plants by hand before they mature and weeds can be removed from the garden before they have a chance to turn to seed if you learn to properly identify them at early stages of there life cycle.
Care should be taken especially with the insects that live in your garden. Learn the difference from the ones that harm your plants and the ones that are beneficial. You will be amazed the amount of insects that present no danger at all to your garden and how only a handful can be a problem.
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