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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at 6:31 am

Container Gardening: Container Herb Garden

There are seven basic elements that is required when it comes to starting your organic container gardening: Plants, Water, Sunlight, Temperature, Nutrients or Fertilizers, Space, and Patience.

Plants are one of the seven basic elements of organic container gardening because it is what you will plant, grow, and harvest. Obviously, it is what organic gardening is all about. Choose plants that you want and desire to grow and harvest. Foodstuffs or big tall trees may all be grown and harvested using pots and containers. Determine what types of plants or crops you prefer and use them wisely.

For starters, most gardening tool sets are composed of several different tools. One of the most important has always been the garden trowel. It’s an ideal tool for weeding and digging in the dirt prior to transplanting an already-mature plant or planting one that’s just starting out. No set is complete without it. For a fact, the trowel is also the single most recognizable and useful of all the tools. Keep that in mind when shopping for a set, too.

The second tool to make sure your gardening tool set includes is what’s called a garden fork. It’s good for several different purposes which include mixing any compost down into the soil and also loosening up that same soil for planting. Also, a tool like this generally has a shorter handle and is useful for fine detail work in between rows of plants or between the individual plants themselves.

With your newspaper spread out over your entire garden, use your garden hose and set your nozzle to mist and water the paper. This will help keep it down while you prepare for the next step. You don’t want to drench it. You want to lightly mist it with water so that it is damp and has some weight to it, to keep it down.

In our next step we want to cover the newspaper we had just laid down. To cover the newspaper, I like to use a black mulch mixed with compost I have made so as both resources decompose into my garden they also add nutrients. Take your mulch/compost mix and put it down over top of the newspaper no less than two inches thick. This gives plenty of weight to keep the paper down, enough to cover the paper, but more importantly, impedes weed growth while retaining water moisture in the soil, especially when it gets hot during the later summer months.

So take care to look for these basic items when it comes to the components of a good gardening tool set, and you’ll be sure to get a set of tools that provides you with everything you need, is easy and comfortable to use and also stands the test of time.

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