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Organic foods are beneficial because they have not been contaminated by pesticides. Organic gardening is wonderful for your family and their health, but you also need to be vigilant about pests.

Keep plastic bags handy to cover your muddy gardening shoes. This helps you stay in the zone so that you can continue gardening when you have completed your tasks in the house.

Grow organic garlic. It’s best to plant garlic cloves in either spring or fall. Make sure the soil is drained well. Plant individual cloves pointed end up approximately two inches deep and four inches apart. You can cut green garlic shoots while they grow, you can then use them in place of scallions and chives. You will know when to harvest the garlic, because the tops will gradually turn brown. Dry the bulbs in the sun in order to harden their skin. Store them somewhere cool, in tied bunches or loose.

Use materials that you have around the house to make a winter tent for your garden. First, a pole of some sort should be driven into the ground at each corner of your garden. Then simply use tarps or old sheets as tent materials, and use old bricks or lumber to secure the edges. This inexpensive tent can protect cabbage and kale, carrots, beets and potatoes to be harvested during the winter.