Using mulch in your organic garden is a vital part of organic gardening. When you mulch around the plants in your organic garden it helps retain the moisture in the soil essential to healthy plants. It will also keep sunlight from reaching those pesky weed seeds which may be mixed in the soil around your fruits and veggies and help keep them from sprouting up! This will save you a ton of time since you won’t need to water or weed your garden nearly so often.

Coconut Coir is an ideal mulch. It is completely organic made from the compressed fibers of the coconut shell. It is disease resistant, pH neutral, holds 8 to 10 times its weight in water and is 100% weed free. Coconut Coir comes in compact easy to store and handle compressed bricks. Even the most spaced challenged gardeners can have an ample supply on hand. Best of all Coconut Coir is also a great soil amendment, so when it comes time to work up the soil and add compost and new plants, the Coconut Coir can be mixed right in and will dramatically improve the texture of your soil. If you have sandy soil it will help improve moisture retention and if you have heavy clay it will help improve drainage. Coconut Coir really is a versatile product that every gardener should try!

Love fresh fruits and vegetables but hate the work? Raised bed gardens are the answer. If you install your raised bed garden properly tilling and weeding are almost completely eliminated. Just follow these simple steps and you will be on your way to raising fresh organic fruits and vegetables the lazy way before you know it!

• Pick a spot that gets at 6 or more hours of direct sunlight
• Determine what size & height bed works for you
  • Taller beds mean less digging during installation and less bending or kneeling when maintaining
  • If you choose a lower sided bed you will need to dig out the ground inside your bed so the total bed depth is at least 8 to 12″
• Build your raised bed. I highly recommend Orcaboard Raised Bed Gardens they are easy to assemble come with a 50 year manufacturers warranty and are a beautiful addition to your landscape!
• Once your bed is built and in place line the bottom with a weed barrier, I use a thick layer of old news papers, they are an environmentally friendly barrier that works great and by the time they degrade so will the weed seeds that might have come up below them
• Since we are talking about being a lazy gardener fill your raised bed with a rich organic soil which has been certified as free of weed seeds
• Plant your favorite fruits and vegetables
• If you are starting from seed as soon as the plants are a few inches tall mulch around them to keep water in and weeds out, I recommend using coconut coir click here to see all the benefits of using coconut coir
• Water regularily
• Pick and enjoy!

Come back often as we will be filling these pages with all kinds of tips and ideas to help make sure your organic garden is a successful one! So help keep the Earth Green One Organic Garden at a Time!

Container gardening is a simple solution for growing your own organic fruits and vegetables no matter where you live. If you have a location on a porch, deck, balcony or a sunny window (plants need about 6 or more hours of direct sunlight) you can grow a container garden.

Love fresh tomatoes? Container gardening can supply you with your very own delicious nutritious organically grown tomatoes all year round. Try planting cucumbers in a container garden, let them grow on a trellis and not only have wonderful fresh cucumbers but an attractive lush green plant to accent any sunny corner.

My Organic Gardener has just introduce the new Urbin Grower a great container gardening system which includes all the soil additives you will need to grow vitamin packed fruits and vegetables anytime and almost anyplace. The self watering system makes the Urbin Grower easy to use and extremely low maintenance for even the busiest gardener.

So get a taste of summer now and start your container garden today!

Welcome to My Organic Gardener! This is the first of what I hope are many posts to come! I hope you find these post useful and informative and will do my best to get you the information to help you garden organic successfully.

Some of the topics I will be covering include organic pest control, companion gardening, how to best utilize your gardening space, product and book reviews, canning and preserving, not to mention a few great recipes from the garden!

Please feel free to leave a comment if you have topic you would like to see discussed and I will do my best to get you the best information I can, or point you in the right direction, or if you’d rather  e-mail me and I will respond as quickly as I can!

Here is to a long and fruitful journey as we garden organic and Keep the Earth Green One Garden at a Time!