23 de set. de 2023 · It becomes clear that the organic farming movement emerged as the marriage of the Indore Method developed by Albert Howard in India with romantic, ecological and neo-traditional approaches to agriculture’. The story told in subsequent chapters is better-known.
21 de set. de 2023 · Ferver and his ilk are determined to preserve the genetics and provenance of the best pecans, chestnuts, hickories, hazelnuts, walnuts, butternuts, heartnuts, oaks, honey locusts, persimmons, paw paws, plums, pears, mulberries, and more—the cultivars that will feed the future. That’s the “ark” he’s talking about.
Há 1 dia · Organic farming in Virginia, USA. Organic farming, also known as ecological farming or biological farming, [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] is an agricultural system that uses fertilizers of organic origin such as compost manure, green manure, and bone meal and places emphasis on techniques such as crop rotation and companion planting.
20 de set. de 2023 · BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast on Apple Podcasts. 199 episodes. Join the team from BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine as we share lively conversation about all things gardening. We’ll be exploring growing for health and for wildlife, success with homegrown food and flowers, making a thriving garden for you and your family to ...
- Planning A Garden, Clemson University
- Container Vegetable Gardening, University of Florida
- Gardening in Small Spaces, University of Kentucky Extension Service
- Master Gardener Program Handbook, University of Idaho Extension
- Starting Garden transplants, Iowa State University Extension
- The Drip Irrigation Handbook, Netafim
- Short Season Gardening, Jo Ann Robbins and Wm. Michael Colt
- The Fall Vegetable Garden, Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service
- A Guide to Raised Bed Gardening, University of Florida Extension
- Vegetable Production Planning Chart
If you don’t have a garden, and you’ve never started one, you probably don’t know what you are doing. Planning a garden is a lot more involved than scratching out some dirt and dropping some seeds in the ground while hoping for the best. There’s a lot that goes into site selection and actually locating the individual plants that you are cultivating...
For some gardeners, space is at a premium outside or they just want to start a sort of side project garden in a different location or to supplement what they are growing in the ground. This is where container gardening comes in handy. Container gardening is, just like the name says, the practice of growing vegetables and other plants in containers ...
The idea of planting a survival gardenmight sound great to preppers who have plenty of property and wide open spaces to make you so. But what about folks who are crammed into the suburbs or, even worse, the middle of the city? Is the prospect just out of the question for them? No, it is not. No matter how space-limited you are, even if you don’t ha...
This is it: The Big One. An immense book covering absolutely everything you need to know in order to tackle the countless challenges that you’ll face when gardening. Horticultural theory, growing zones, plant health, techniques, tools, composting, pests, bed preparation, and construction- everything. It is not as digestible as some of the other boo...
The typical conception of a home garden, of any kind, usually begins with the planting of a single seed. You might indeed start your plans from seed, but not always, and transplanting veggies and other plants directly into your garden can save you a ton of time and labor compared to establishing plants the old-fashioned way. However, transplanting ...
If your plans are going to make it to maturity and harvesting, they’re going to need water and a whole lot of it. Proper irrigation techniques can get your plants the water they need, when they need it, and often without your direct intervention. Drip irrigation is one such technology that is easy for an individual to set up but it can save you tim...
One assumption that will routinely come back to bite beginning gardeners on their behind is the notion that growing seasons are standard wherever you might live. Nothing could be further from the truth! If you live in a region with a short growing season you’ll need to adapt your techniques and your approach. Get a guide on short-season gardening r...
The idea of tending to a garden is invariably linked with spring and summertime weather, but not all plants and veggies grow and produce in these two seasons. Some aren’t ready to harvest until late fall, and accordingly, you’ll need to understand how to handle and tend to fall vegetables if you want that beautiful autumn harvest that can sustain y...
If getting down close to the ground is it difficult or just too tiresome, you might consider gardening with raised beds. Aside from making your plants easier to reach, especially when they are just starting, it has some other advantages as well. Raised beds are easy to make if you are crafty, and it’s possible to repurpose common items to be used i...
Are you gardening to keep yourself and your family in produce year-round? Are you doing so as a hedge against loss or disaster? Do you know how much food, precisely, you can expect from a garden of a given size or a certain number of plants? You probably don’t, and hoping for the best is not a survival strategy. This simple, clean vegetable product...
19 de set. de 2023 · Organic Gardening For Beginners is a podcast that helps overwhelmed and time-crunched new gardeners start and maintain their own thriving garden.