I hope you’ve been enjoying my posts lately. I thought I might do something different today and rustle up a few bits of info from around the WWW. These are some of the news items and blog posts that have been popular over the last few weeks. Leave me your thoughts.

The Benefits of Dandelion Tea – Tips ‘n’ Ideas

For what many gardeners see as a weed, herbalists have been capitalising on its many benefits and drinking its tonic-like properties for millenia. We're talking about dandelion tea, of course. It's a herbal tea produced from this annual …

Fact Sheet Summarizes Benefits of Gardening for Children …

Gardening provides different forms of engagement for children, including designing, planting, and maintaining gardens; harvesting, preparing, and sharing food; working cooperatively in groups; learning about science and nutrition; …

Greenprofs » What is Hydroponic Gardening – benefits, place in …

What is Hydroponic Gardening – benefits, place in present and future agriculture industry. Key Facts on Hydroponics. Hydroponic plants do not require soil to grow in. They use different growing media instead. …

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Crop rotation is very important for your garden’s soil. It helps to prevent in disease and helps to replenish nutrients back into your gardens soil. Rotation of crops should be done on a three to four year plan. When plants are in the same location year after year they deplete the nutrients in the soil that they need.

Having a little knowledge of plants botanical names will help you with there relationship of other plants. When rotating crops you want to keep from rotating planting plants from the same family. There are many diseases that can attack plants that are from the same family. Know and learn about your plants and what there needs are and you will have a big success in crop rotation.

There are certain plants that shouldn’t be planted where another crop has been. Cucumbers leave toxins in the soil where they have been planted that can cause tomato plants to die. Corn uses a lot of nitrogen so rotating with peas or beans will replenish the nitrogen back into the soil. There are several combination of plants that can be rotated to benefit each other.

The rotation of crops not only benefits the garden by helping to prevent disease and insect problems, it can also benefit the soil. Rotating crops with crops that have different root systems depths will help the soil structure by aerating the soil and adding nutrients at different depths of the soil. The planting of cover crops both legume and non-legume is another way to improve the soil structure of your garden by the adding of nutrients and organic matter to the soil.

Crop rotation is something that has been around for centuries. When looking at nature you will see a constant cycle of crop rotation going on all the time. If it has been working for nature for all these years it can work for you in your garden too. Watching and learning what nature has to offer is a good way to learn how organic gardening works.

A environment friendly and healthy way of gardening. Organic Gardening is away of gardening in harmony with nature. Growing a healthy and productive crop in a way that is healthier for both you and the environment.

John Yazo

http://www.organicheirloomgardening.com

How about these right… I think you’ll find the following nuggets of wisdom particularly insightful. Leave your comments below. Check out the second one in particular…

Symposium Discusses “Going Green”

Windsor's Greenhouses and Nursery Owner Ryan Muchow said, “People don't garden to just be busy. We want harvest, we want produce, we want the benefits of … Read More…

Tree planting to feature in new forestry and biodiversity plan

And while encouraging the return to home gardening, he pointed out that the country is putting up its forest for the Reduction of Emission from … Read More…

Give Your Garden a Blanket for the Winter.

Cover crops not only protect the soil from the erosion of wind and water but also provide several other benefits. They add organic matter to the soil, … Read More…
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Do you use Epsom Salts for benefits in the garden?

If you use Epsom Salts as part of your gardening routine, what improvement do you use it for.Could you please tell me what the dosage is. Informtion I have read suggests something different,everytime.

Back with more news for you today. It’s amazing how much good information there is on this stuff out there if you know where to look. Three in particular that I found really valuable were…

Mentors: What we can learn from English green thumbs

… promote the benefits of organic, home-grown vegetables decades ago. Now the whole world is listening as England continues to promote allotment gardening … Read More…

To pee or not to pee

Urine has been long-established as a free compost “activator” (aka “liquid gold”), because it's full of nitrogen, but there are other benefits too. … Read More…

Greenspace: Dig your garden with a shovel

Mechanical gardening gear, especially attached to gas engines, is fine for big plots. But you'll miss a lot of gardening benefits … Read More…
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Organic Farming – What are the Benefits of Organic Farming & Home Gardening?

I'm eager to get into organic home gardening.

Can someone tell me about organic gardening compost benefits?

Everyone is talking about it, but why?

What benefits do people get from gardens (or, from gardening)?

It's theraputic – relaxing – rewarding – stress reducer – you create something all on your own and it becomes a passion. You strive to try new things.
You get out of it what you put into it.

Ok so you might find the next few links interesting. These are from around the web, just random snippets that I’ve picked up in my reading, but I found some very cool information in them. You might too. Here goes…

Modern Greenhouse Gardening – Learn Its Various Benefits …

Greenhouse gardening can seem a little old fashioned these days. It is so easy to jump in the car and drive to the supermarket where we can find every kind of.

Recycling Kitchen Waste

Other gardeners tout the benefits of this type of composting, so I don't see why it won't work for me and my tomatoes. I don't expect my efforts to be a total waste even if I don't grow tomatoes successfully next year. …

Benefits Of Using Solar Water Fountains | Gardening | A blog about …

Give a other dimension to your garden decoration with the elegance of solar founts. You will be mesmerized by the grand elegance of solar outflows. These fountains runs solely on solar power that is sunlight.

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