Easy To Store Garden Wagon

This handy load carrying roller will save you from strain and back pain!

The only negative comments I could see related to this item is how it isn't the best for wheeling a dog or child around the garden. But it is a gardening tool and is simply not constructed for the comfort of pets and babies

However it is a help for heavy bags of soil, fertilizer, or seedlings ready for planting. The wheels do not have brakes, it is noted, so storage is best with it hung rather than just propped against a wall.

Here's a garden idea - low hoop construction that truly maximizes the space in the side yard of this home.

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Best Compost Bin

Rated as the best compost bin by many, this product is easily assembled with no tools needed.

The parts click into place like Legos! No screws or nuts and bolts.

You can add some slippery creepy decomp helpers housed to accelerate the composting process and increae air flow throughout your contents. And your garden will flourish!

I've seen the attempts to degrade kitchen waste without such a container. Waste of time if you're truly intent on enhancing your food growth!

Here's a beautiful garden path lined with willow sticks to inspire your gardening aspirations!

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Learn Organic Gardening Basics For Important Health Benefits

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 A cool way to plant strawberries!

Why bother with organic gardening if you can just spray pesticides and kill the competition for your home grown food?

Pesticides create havoc in our bodies for years after exposure. Because they are stored in fats, they work like a time-released product, slowly leaking out.

Organic gardening helps us to exert some control over how much we are affected - brain, metabolism, reproductive system - and much more.

Pesticides are sprayed everywhere, all the time. Parks, schools, grocery stores, office buildings, golf courses - avoiding these chemicals (which include insecticides, herbicides, fungicides and bactericides), is impossible.

However, if you go to all the trouble of growing your own food, you can decide not to add poisonous chemicals to your yard or gardening containers.

Not only can you avoid ingesting pesticides, but you can avoid inhaling them as well.

It is also a good idea to ask your neighbors to let you know when they are spraying in their yards so you can make sure your windows are tightly shut.

Pesticides were originally formulated as nerve gases used to kill enemies in times of war. As with many products developed for war, we "benefit" from subsequent peacetime uses.

The worst thing about pesticides is how they upset our "happy chemicals" in our brains. The feel good hormones serotonin, and dopamine do not function properly. Even our motor controls and other delicate processes are affected by pesticides. Hormone balance is destroyed, leading to high cholesterol, and cancers.

We are surrounded by warnings of our decades of oblivion as to the results of chemical use in our food industries.

With gardening choices, you can say "Not In My Backyard" and mean it!  Information on organic gardening is easy to find.

We do not know exactly to what degree our body chemistry has been compromised by eating non-organically grown food. However, we can enjoy important health benefits from applying organic gardening basics in our own backyard.

Gardening Unplugged and How To Stay Organic

Eating off the grid takes some know-how, especially if you have decided to plant an organic garden.

Natural insecticides and fertilizers can be used. Cutting down on the chemicals and drugs we eat, drink, and absorb through our skin every day is a challenge. Starting with food that we grow at home, places this issue a little bit under our own control.

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We have to consider that some of the pollution that goes into our soil will end up in our food. However, plants also have the ability to filter out certain elements, as well as convert inorganic minerals (like iron filings for example) into organic mineral form that is good for us.

Once you have decided to compost and begin your own organic garden, you have already exerted a measure of control about what you will ingest.

This is a major investment in the health of yourself and your family.

Getting the right education, if you have never planted a garden before, is crucial! Ideas you can choose from:

* container gardening
* square foot gardening
* roof gardening
* front yard gardening
* patio/balcony gardening
* community gardening,
* designing an aesthetic or water-flow garden
* thinking about how you will preserve some of the food you grow

There are varieties of insects that are good for your garden. For example, horn worms will defoliate tomatoes.

Wasps will lay eggs on the horn worms and the wasp larvae will live off them.

That is just one example of nature's eco control.

If you provide "room and board" to specific bugs, they will control your crop stealers! The amount of detailed information about this is huge.

If you reach for a pesticide when you see a bug, you may be killing off critters that can benefit your plants. Why not get a simple organic gardening guide Food For Wealth and save yourself a lot of time.

Household Waste and Garden Waste For Your Organic Garden

 Garden Composting Do It Yourself

 If you are just starting composting, the amount of information about household waste and garden waste can be intimidating. Yet, there are simple ways to learn about this topic.

Delight in the fact that you can use up probably fifty percent of leftovers, vegetable trimmings, and other household trash.

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Garden trash that can go into your compost bin include twigs, and pruning bits.

I've discovered that the sanitation department of the city I live in gives a composting workshop once a month and sells compost bins at a considerable discount.

Of course sign-up requires identification as a resident, and pre-registration. I think this is a great service for a city to provide for their tax-payers.

Folks with ample garden space need all the help they can get if they are going to seriously consider organic gardening to eat off the grid. This adventure  may take two to three years to get off the ground.

Starting composting can be achieved with an inexpensive trash can, modified to become a composting bin, or by purchasing a bin with the right ventilation and drainage in place.

I've seen pictures of bins made from mesh wiring, set on a home-made platform for drainage.

So here's a plan for us composting beginners:

• Sign up for a local city free composting workshop
• Decide on the bin you would like to start with
• Start learning about worms and other soil dwellers
• Get a compost kitchen bin  

Read reviews and see more choices HERE.

 A small bin with a tight lid (to keep out flies) near the sink is handy. You can put all your fruit and vegetable trimmings into it as you prepare meals. Coffee grounds can also go into it.

You can empty this kitchen waste daily, into your compost bin.

If you have gardeners, get a bin for them to put all grass/pruning bits/twigs in (make sure they separate from pet feces).

Compost takes a few months to generate. Start as early in the year as you can. 


Of course there's more! But we (well, I for one), cannot learn everything at once.....

It is too soon to tell if people starting out, like us, can get some compost ready for this year's planting for our organic garden. Let's enjoy our adventure in getting expert gardening tips.