Welcome to our organic gardening section. Here you will find information on how to design your vegetable garden, grow vegetables organically, compost, make organic liquid feeds, control pests organically and how to store/preserve your harvest. We will also cover the benefits of keeping chickens and bees. You can buy organic seeds and garden supplies from the businesses listed on Ethical Marketplace in the top menu. There are also numerous videos included in this section demonstrating how to create  your organic garden and how to grow many varieties of vegetables.

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This is an introduction to the basic principles of Crop Rotation and the reasons why it is important to not grow certain vegetables in the same area during consecutive years. These are grounding organic rules to adhere to when planning your garden. The information is provided by our gardening friend Jeremy Dore of GrowVeg.com. GrowVeg.com provide an excellent garden planner for beginners and gardening enthusiasts that provides you with reminders throughout the year on what you should be doing in your garden, what crops to plant, when and where to plant them.

Grow vegetables in different areas of your garden each year to keep them healthy and combat pests.

The sight of large fields full of one type of crop ripening in the sun may now be a quintessential part of the countryside, but this mass-production method of cultivating a single species has long been known to cause problems:

1. Large groups of the same crop make an easy target for pests. For this reason, non-organic commercial growers feel compelled to spray the whole area with pesticides.

2. Soil nutrients are depleted when the ground is occupied by a large number of the same type of plant. This problem is compounded if the ground is used for the same crop next season – often the soil becomes so impoverished that artificial fertilizers are needed.

3. Soil subjected to the same mechanical processes year after year will inevitably become compacted.

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