Organic Gardening

Organic Gardening is fun. Everything you need is outside
the Gardening Centers and Retail Stores. Almost everything
is right outside in your own backyard.

Composting is easy and the whole process keeps you doing something in your garden all year long.

My mother and grandmother got me started with it. Egg shells, potato peelings, watermelon rinds, grass clippings and garden waste go into the compost heap. Seaweed is free and abundant and serves as a great fertilizer.

Here is a result of years of treating the soil with natural fertilizers, assisting nature to do its work, and letting the rain and sun do its. For instance I plant Four O' Clock plants around the year each year. They have a poison in their leaves which is only poison to the Japanese Beetle. I don't use insecticides at all. Bringing birds into the yard is a great help. Peanuts attract Blue Jays which eat worms hardly seen by human eyes on the tomato plants. Our dog, Moe, chases the squirrels and the rabbits out of the garden.

Beside all this it is extremely healthy. As I ate one of these carrots last evening, it didn't need to peeled, just washed. You know what went into it to grow it and what comes out is delicious. My blog (www.larrysbackyard.blogspot.com) has instructions on composting and organic gardening. Take a look around in the archives and enjoy! Like eternal life, its free!

Tomato Time!

By now everyone who planted tomatoes back in April are beginning to enjoy the fruits of their labor. These fruits (or are they vegetables?) are delectable. I put elephant dung in the pots they are planted in, horse manure tea, egg shells and seaweed. They vines have gone crazy. They are so laden with fruit that the poles I staked them up with are breaking from the weight. This is wondrous to the organic gardener!