Hello! I live in the city, and there are roaches EVERYWHERE. My next door neighbors have a huge roach problem. I have a lizard living in my kitchen, so at least for the moment, I don’t have any roaches in the house. Unfortunately, I don’t think it would be humane to release lizards in my backyard, as they would die when it got colder. Any ideas on how I could grow an organic garden in my backyard while keeping the roaches off my food?
I have never done anything like this, but I would like to start a vegetable or herb garden of some sort. I have prepared the earth (well I have dug out all of the weeds and grass, I am sure I need to do more preparing) but I have no idea what to do now.
What else do I need to do to prepare the earth? What should I grow? What are some hardy plants that will survive even if being nurtured by a novice? How do I protect my garden?
I was interested in growing an organic garden, what is the difference? My Dad says it is pretty much impossible to tell if your garden is truely organic with run off and everything, is it worth trying?
I want to have an organic herb garden. But because I have waited too long is it ok to buy starter plants that have a bit of pesticide used on them and never use pesticides again? Does the pesticide wash off? Can I just pinch off the part that had the pesticide used on it?
using the herbs for organic flavored oils
I’m working on a newspaper story about organic gardening and I’m trying to get an overview of the history of corporate farming in the U.S. and some of the big-name corporations normally associated with corporate farming, since it seems that the increasing emphasis on organic gardening and farming is, to a large degree, a reaction against corporate farming. Any resources anyone could point me to would be greatly appreciated.
My boyfriend and I are wanting to live off the grid. We’re wanting to go to an intership for grey water usage, rain water catchment, solar panels, and organic gardening. We’re looking for something in the west. Can anyone help? Thanks.
So. I was wondering what other people think about the organic foods debate, so if you think they are the only foods are good or if some foods don’t matter.
I for one only eat unprocessed foods. I only buy organic meat and eat wild game. In the summer I garden all my vegetables and herbs. But in the winter I buy everything from the store and only my greens and herbs organic. And I make all my own bread and granola bars and everything.
What’s are everyone else’s opinions on this matter? Are organic foods just a trend to some people? Just cause they are organic are they healthy? and anything else you want to throw in!
I know that worms can eat garbage and turn it into rich, organic material for gardening, so i am wondering where i can get them. i want to help the environment.
I buy and make shoes, clothing, bag, etc out of hemp and I have my own organic garden. I don’t drive cars and I recycle. How can I be more Green/organic?
I think that even if global warming isn’t real what human kind is doing to the planet - turning it to a suburbian wasteland with exactly 5 types of plants being ok and EVERY thing else being a weed is horrible, especially when those plants people like are non native and take hundreds of gallons of water, pesticides, and fertilizers just to survive each year, in each yard.
What if the government heavily pushed the individual, organic garden? Building codes included greywater(non toilet water that is safe to put on plants as is) and composting toilet systems as nescessary? Outlawed(and enforced) the sale of non native plants, including grasses, for outside planting in every region, town and state? There was a bill passed that every house above a certain energy consumption/emission level(including trash) in say…20 years(to give technology time to catch up) would be fined and every house that complied each year before the deadline would receive major incentives and tax cuts forever?
We have a few strawberry plants, but something is getting to them. We can’t find any bugs, but there is clearly somehting eating the plants. The foiledge is about half of what it used to be. The garden is organic, so we don’t use pesticides or fungicides, so we just don’t know what to to. Are there any natural remedies out there?
