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The Three Best Organic Vegetable Gardening Products For Your Yard
As organic gardening becomes more popular, it seems that there are more and more organic vegetable gardening products on the market. Unless you have years of gardening experience, it can be hard to weed through which organic vegetable gardening products are necessities and which organic vegetable gardening products you can do without. If your garden shed contains these three organic vegetable gardening products, you should have no problem growing healthy, organic food for your family.
Bone Meal
Bone meal should be a staple in all gardening, because it is one of the best organic vegetable gardening products you can buy. It literally is made from crushed and ground bones and is an amazing source of phosphorus and calcium in the garden. You can till bone meal into the soil before you plant to amend it, and you can also sprinkle bone meal around the base of your plants throughout the growing season.
Bone meal is the perfect feed for fruit trees, flowers, root crops, vegetables, and any budding plant. It will help your plants to set extra flowers and extra fruit and even help increase the size of the fruits and vegetables that you grow.
Blood Meal
Blood meal is dried out and powdered blood that when used to fertilize your garden will increase its nitrogen base. When you apply blood meal directly to the base of plants you need to either water it down or make sure you do not apply too much. Its high nitrogen content causes it to burn plants when it is given in too large an application.
One added bonus of including blood meal in your supply of organic vegetable gardening products is that it can be used to keep critters such as rabbit and deer from nibbling your garden away. Simply sprinkle dried blood meal around your garden and the scent should scare animals away.
Orange Extract
Orange extract is usually made from the peels of oranges and can be found in the baking section of your grocery store. When you mix orange extract with water and place the mixture in a spray bottle, you have a powerful organic form of pest control. The oil from the orange pills dissolves the wax like coating on harmful insects killing them without doing any damage to your plants. Because orange extract is edible, it is perfectly safe to spray in your garden. It wont hurt pets, kids, or add harsh chemicals to the foods you plan to serve your family. |
