Organic gardening 2025

[Dahlia]

A lot of people say that they prefer the taste of sugar free and I just say more power to you.

Whatever floats ur boat!

 

[flowerbug]

Whatever floats ur boat!

rootbeer float!

 

[Moon888]

I have been gardening for a while now but it seems like not everything I do works so this year I am going to be doing organic gardening with the hugelkultre system. I already have 2 really nice metal raised beds and I have a lot of pallets to make more. My hope for this years garden is to stop buying the toxic chemicals that is put into almost everything we buy at the store. I also have a bunch of pots for some of the food I want to grow. I will post pictures as soon as I can get some help with making the pallet beds and getting the tilling done to be able to set up the garden.

Pallets sound like a good idea; we can get some from a neighbour, however, I am concerned about them breaking down too quickly (untreated timber)? I so agree with "organic" ... it is so convenient to pull out the weed killer or to look for a chemical solution for pests : ( We really have to retrain our brains to go back to basics, and to nurture Mother Earth; she will repay us in a healthy way : ) Too much rain, pests (locusts, caterpillas etc), rats and wallabies have been eating my seedlings for a year now. So I bought some containers from ebay and have made a start (some lil seeds popping their heads now). I had to empty the containers because they were waterlogged from all the rain). Planning on building a tunnel (with bird netting) and making garden beds inside it. Happy gardening, and keep sharing your ideas please : )

 

[Moon888]

Yes but my husband has one mindset when it comes to yard work. Put it all on the burn pile. He's got a lot of intelligence but when it comes to recycling it's out the window. He's going to be gone till Thursday so I might go out and get most of the leaves off the pile and put it in the run for the girls to make compost for the garden

I am sure that your girls will be very happy that you do this; mine love mulch in the coop : )

 

[Moon888]

The early part of the growing season did not go well here because of too cool of weather. Nothing I did or didn't do worked. Had far too much cloud cover too. Once the weather finally warmed up the garden did much better.

We in AU have had so much cloud cover (and chem trails daily for over a year) ...

 

[akroberts]

I'm going to try using the electro culture method this year for the garden. I will take plenty of notes and then I will post pictures and of course my notes so that everyone will be able to know how it works. I'm just going to cross my fingers and pray it's a good outcome.

 

[akroberts]

I have a lot of planters with domes so I was thinking about maybe getting some seeds started earlier than usual but it's California not Canada.lolol

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

Your in a warmer zone in northern Calif ..what growing zone?
I can't start seeds until next year we don’t warm up enough to plant seedlings outside til June . zone 8b when ground temps warm up .

 

[Moon888]

Watch out for Deep tilling bc it brings up weed seeds that can survive buried for decades, sometimes over 100 years!
You will just have to keep up on the weeding.
Bravo on the "no chemicals"!
@heirloomgal and I were just discussing how we have forGOTTEN to spray, so we can virtue signal that we don't use any!
I think if you avoid using certain herbicides like Roundup, you can find some others and use them judiciously, like using a paintbrush on weeds growing in amongst your preferred plants.
I do not and WILL NOT use any pesticides beyond the wasp spray that I had to use last summer when a bunch of wasps decided to build a nest right at the bottom of my house siding and close to my water faucets.
It used to be that we would drive out in the country in the middle of the summer and have to scrape all of the insects off of our windshields. Doesn't happen anymore bc of Heavy farm pesticide use.
Insects are the bottom of our food chains.
And, of course YOU KNOW that weeds with roots will regrow in a compost pile, just like pumpkin seeds!
I don't throw much to feed the landfills, BUT, I do throw bindweed runners in the trash to try to control them.
I discovered that you smother bindweed for a season, too. I put an 8 ft x 18" board next to a small bed by the street that still has a bindweed problem, where I had inadvertently thrown pieces of bindweed and they took off in the lawn.
I killed those small bindweed off for a season.
I look forward to your 2025 gardening adventures!!!

How did you get rid of the bindweed (we call them "bindies" and in SAfrica they are "devil thorns") in your lawn?

 

[Moon888]

I have a lot of planters with domes so I was thinking about maybe getting some seeds started earlier than usual but it's California not Canada.lolol

I've just done the same, cause we still have to demolish the old tunnel and relocate the framework closer to the house (will use the flimsy low grade netting that I bought on Ebay, and see how that goes - very misleading advertising "commercial grade"??? : )