Growing Flowers in Your Organic Garden

Organic gardening is becoming more and more popular. Virtually every kind of plant and flower can be grown organically.

However, it’s important to choose the plants and flowers that are best suited to your climate. Choosing plants that naturally grow in your environment is one of the best ways to reduce or eliminate the use of fungicides, pesticides, and other chemicals in your garden.

For example, it may be difficult to grow tropical plants and flowers in a cold climate, or grow cold climate plants in the tropics using organic methods. It’s easier to plant the flowers and vegetation that grow well in your own environment. One great way to accomplish this is to choose native plants for your organic garden. Native species will do best where you plant them and you won’t have to use chemicals.

Using native plant species doesn’t mean you have to have a boring garden. Native species of flowers and plants everywhere are available in just about every color of the rainbow and size, shape, and texture. A beautiful mixture of native plants can produce an organic garden you will be proud to show the world.

When you choose the perfect species and varieties of plants and flowers for your garden, be sure to also choose only the healthiest specimens. Unhealthy plants, infected with disease or infested by insects, could introduce these problems into your garden and make organic gardening much more difficult.

Choosing the healthiest plants and flowers, on the other hand, will get your organic garden off to the best start, since healthy plants are better able to fight off pests, and to resist bacterial, viral, and fungal infections. The healthy plants in your garden will be able to fight off these common ailments without the need for chemicals.

After you have chosen the plants and brought them home, you should transplant them as quickly as possible. You should have a good supply of finished compost on hand to start your organic garden. Having a compost bin is a great idea for any organic gardener, since high-quality compost contains nutrients that even the best commercial fertilizers don’t. In addition, creating your own compost means less waste going to landfills and a healthier environment overall as well as a healthy garden.

When working a compost mixture into the soil, you don’t have to go deep. Most plants root at only a depth of about six inches. Working the compost mixture into the first six to eight inches of soil in your garden should be sufficient.

When you transplant seedlings from plastic nursery containers, be sure to remove the plant carefully from the container. Gently tear away those roots that have grown beyond the container. Also, before planting them, be sure you have adequately prepared the soil with good organic material. Organic material in the soil will not only will provide the young plants with a great source of nutrition, but it will also encourage the growth of beneficial organisms like earthworms. Earthworms work the soil better than any garden tool. They are an integral part of a successful organic garden.

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