Winter Planning For Your Spring Organic Garden
by John Yazo
Now is the time to plan your organic garden for spring planting. Winter is a great time to sit back and think about how your garden did this past season and what you would of done different or wold like to do different in the spring.
Winter is a good time to make a sketch of your garden and make changes to the layout. This is also a good time to research different methods of gardening that can be incorporated into your gardening practices like crop rotation and companion planting.Crop rotation and companion planting are two good methods to incorporate into organic gardening. They will help in the defense of insect and disease problems in you garden along with the improvement of your gardens soil structure and to replenish nutrients back into to the soil that your plants need to thrive.
Composting is another thing you can experiment with through the winter months. Try new methods like worm composting. It doesn't take much room to do and the end product of compost is excellent to be used to add nutrients to household plants and your outdoor gardens.
If you are thinking of trying to plant a different crop or a different variety of the same crop you have been planting, now is a good time to look through seed catalogs and research the different options that you may be interested in planting in the future.
This is also a good time to experiment with germinating your own seeds and to start a small indoor garden. Try planting just a few plants to get started. See how they do indoors. You just may be surprised on what you can grow all winter long.
Winter is a great time to get organized for your spring gardening. You aren't as rushed with all the other chores that hit you all at once in the spring.
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