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- For any organic garden produce to be marketed as such it needs
accreditation from one of several national bodies, but anyone can write an
organic gardening book, with no such appellation approval and as a
consequence the market is saturated with worthless dross purporting to be
‘organic’.
- I think the acid test for an organic gardening book is that it needs to
address how you control certain pests in the garden using organic controls
and how to make compost that is loaded with nutrients adequate for the crops
you aim to grow. Which plants are best for making green manure, when to
plant them and most importantly when to dig them in. If an organic gardening
book does not address these issues, it’s just a coffee table adornment, so
beware.
- As spring is in the air, even if not on the calendar just yet, make sure
you keep your pots well watered. The daily temperatures in pots is already
well above ground temperatures.
- In shaded areas that are not getting sun for more than two hours a day,
you will see that they are quite moist, so you need to till the soil to
encourage some aeration and prevent it from souring. A single tine hoe is
ideal as it does not damage your plant roots and can be controlled more
easily than your typical three-tine hoe. To make the three into a single,
loosen the two restraining bolts and just remove two tines!
- Pull out any Thistles in your garden this week, apart from being riddled
with Aphids at present they support the "Brown Leaf Hopper" that
spreads the dreaded mycoplasma-induced "Big Bud" on your tomatoes
and egg plants in a few months.
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