Q&A: What are your best organic vegetable gardening tips?

Question by christhenix: What are your saint organic vegetable gardening tips? I am starting an allotment and would like to be purely organic. Got any experience or tips for a newbie that I can use on my vegetable plots? General tips or growong tips, or just general ideas all welcome Ideal answer: Answer by SundaeG1rlBuild [...]

Successful Organic Gardening Systems

What is it that most organic gardeners want from their extraordinary food gardens? * Is it the substantial health benefits: – knowing that your food is GM and synthetic chemicals and free? – gathering your food from garden to plateau in minutes, retaining valuable, health enhancing nutrients? * Or the pleasure [...]

Tips on Organic Gardening

Instead of chemicals in your soil and on your food, why not try organic gardening?  You can start with just a few plants in pots or a small patch, or you can go whole hog and dig up half your yard!  Actually, if it’s your first garden, it’s superior to start small.  Gardeners have [...]

Vegetable Garden Design – Laying Out and Planting Vegetable Gardens

Vegetable garden design is vital as you start planting vegetable gardens, because it’s important to know how the garden will be ordered out. Companion planting, planting space, and what type of vegetables you want to plant are all elements that must be considered when putting together your garden layout. Here are some helpful tips on [...]

Your Vegetable Garden’s Layout

As you start planting vegetable gardens it’s important to know how the garden will be ordered out. The layout of your own garden will depend on what vegetable you want to grow, the planting space and if you would like to opt for companion planting. Here are some helpful tips on how to layout your [...]

Vegetable Gardening – A Rewarding Hobby

More and more people are taking up vegetable gardening as it is gaining popularity. Vegetable gardening will remuneration you with cheaper vegetables compared with those from the stores. Moreover, your home vegetable garden will produce far better tasting vegetables. Vegetable gardening is very similar to growing herbs or flowers in your garden and if the [...]

Vegetable Garden Layout – Companion Plants

If you’re planning for a vegetable garden layout, one of the most important factors that you should think about is companion planting. Companion planting is an age-old practice that’s evidenced to be beneficial to commercial farmers and home gardeners alike. The principle is easy: plant two or more plants together to create a balanced ecosystem [...]

Growing tomatoes: 20 tips for tasty fruit

River Cottage ‘s head gardener, Mark Diacono, explains how to grow the perfect crop of tomatoes Growing tomatoes is a tricky business. We have no intent if we’ll have a sweltering summer like 1976 or if rain will come and encourage blight. Or perhaps we’ll have an Indian summer to nudge what you thought would never get there into perfect ripeness.

Designing your Vegetable Garden – an Introduction to the Classic Designs

There are a number of different designs you can use when planning your organic vege garden – and choosing an appropriate design style for your home and personality will ensure your vege garden is an captivating feature within the garden as a whole, rather than a functional sideline.  It’s also important to think about the [...]

Companion Planting Vegetables For Increased Crops

Companion planting in your vegetable garden is a great way to increase the size of the crop you will have when it comes time to harvest. The right combination of vegetables planted together improves growth, reduces disease, encourages beneficial insects to thrive in the garden, and discourages pests. But companion planting vegetables does have it’s [...]