How do you plan and grow an organic vegetable and herb garden? and Garden Court

How do you plan and grow an organic vegetable and herb garden?

I want to have my very own organic vegetable and herb garden for my family and my consumption. Please share with me how to do so. Thank you in advance.


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Answer by Lola
1) Choose your site. You'll want it to have as mush full sun as possible, you also will want it semi-private (less tomato thieves), and far from a septic tank if you have one. How you prepare the site has a lot to do with your region. If you are in the midwest or northern us, you might want to use the smother technique. That is put a heavy layer of newspaper, and leaves on the area, and let them rot down the sod. If you get a tiller on sale, you might want to break ground now.

2) Prepare a compost area. If you don't use chemicals on your lawn, and bag your grass this can create valuable compost for your garden. Also getting rid of veggie waste from the kitchen rather than putting it in a landfill is great!

3) Look for seeds/Start considering what to plant. Right now you could put in a set of winter garlic, or strawberrie plants.

4) Read a book or two on gardening. The easiest way to organic is simply skipping chemicals, there are beneficial plant theories that suggest surrounding your garden with marigolds to deter some pests. For herbs it is important to know your zone, so you'll know what will be perennial.

5) Only plant mints in pots!

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http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/organic/

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