Keys to a No-Work Organic Vegetable Garden

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Fresh and nutritious vegetables are a shopper's dream, but if we also want organically grown, we will have to pay a premium and sometimes they are not available everywhere. Is there a simple solution to this problem?

It would certainly be nice if everything were simple in life. Not so, in most cases. To envision having a vegetable garden in your back yard can sometimes be trying to anyone. Maybe you have recently purchased a home. In order to accommodate even a small garden would require allotting some unused land area, preferably in your back yard. If the area you chose is in a field of wild grass, that would be ideal. The grass, when turned under would act as an ideal fertilizer; well it would be free anyhow.

Area chosen should not be adjacent to a neighbor's garden and preferably slightly higher in elevation. The reason is simple. It may be that their garden uses chemical fertilizers for growing their vegetables and during heavy rains could wash over into your garden.

The next stage would require simply adding organic fertilizer such as horse manure, cow manure, chicken manure, or composted organic material such as weeds from your grass area, your future garden weeds, stirred, but not shaken, of its now enriched soil, yard shrub clippings, table scraps and even hair cut droppings. (Human hair contains about 38% Nitrogen, probably the highest of anything). Also, Eggshells, clam shells, fish heads, etc.

Constructing Your Compost Bin, Your Endless Home Fertilizer Source

Here is where ALL your organic refuse is stored, part of a total recycling system, or $ 00 cost fertilizer supply. You don't even have to gas-up the car to run out to the farm store. The fabrication is simple: a 4x4x4 cube, open at the top and possibly even a hinged front gate to hand churn the organic mixture, which will be