No Dig Garden - Organic Gardening
Aug
17
Posted by Adina
Photos by Nan and Adina
Heathcote Botanical Garden recently decided to create a community garden. I was fortunate to be at the first meeting about a year ago, and I was able to get involved with this project at the beginning. This community garden is currently focused on growing for a Sarah’s Kitchen in Port [...]
Tags: Community Garden, Compost, Composting, Grow Food At Home, Growing Organic Vegetables, Heathcote Botanical Garden, Home Grown Vegetables, No Dig Garden, No Till Gardening, South Florida Vegetable Gardens
Aug
15
Posted by Adina
These Pictures were taken by Tami and Melody.
This past winter Tami bought fresh vegetables from my garden, and carried a bucket of kitchen garbage to me for my compost every week.
Everything changed when she ate the fresh broccoli I put into her bag. Tami said she didn’t know fresh broccoli wouldn’t stink when cooked. [...]
Tags: Grow Food At Home, Growing Organic Vegetables, Lasagna Garden, No Dig Garden, South Florida Vegetable Gardens
May
19
Posted by Adina
Many consumers and new gardeners are focusing on Organic food and on Organic growing principles for the first time. This is a good start. Unfortunately many growers who are learning about organic principles miss the point and simply switch to organic fertilizers and organic pesticides while adhering to their familiar conventional garden and soil managment [...]
Tags: Composting, Growing Organic Vegetables, Microbes and Invertebrates of the Soil, No Dig Garden, No Till Gardening, Soil Food Web, Soil Organisms, South Florida Vegetable Gardens, Sustainability
Apr
26
Posted by Adina
The quickest way to get your garden growing in a hurry and without any previous plan is to build a lasagna garden or mound.
I have written the recipe for this in the article The No Dig Garden Box, and I thought since I find myself talking about this garden so frequently and my old [...]
Tags: Growing Organic Vegetables, Home Garden, Home Grown Vegetables, No Dig Garden, No Till Gardening, Preparing for Planting, South Florida Vegetable Gardens
Dec
15
Posted by Adina
Composted Cow Manure is an excellent garden amendment. In the garden we focus on the soil a great deal. We work to make great compost, and if it goes in your garden the way it goes in mine you will run out of your home made compost before your compost needs are met. Composted Cow [...]
Tags: composted cow manure, Composting, No Dig Garden, Preparing for Planting
Jul
14
Posted by Adina
I intended to write about what I am doing this summer to prepare my no dig garden boxes for the winter growing season, but this blog has taken it’s own direction instead. Today I write about Synergistic Agriculture and my evolving garden practices.
This summer I have been growing in gardens I would have left fallow [...]
Tags: Lasagna Garden, No Dig Garden, No Till Gardening, Preparing for Planting, South Florida Vegetable Gardens
Jul
06
Posted by Adina
[/caption]South Florida in the garden: It is July now and you have decided that you want to be ready to grow vegetables for your family when our first planting time comes NEXT MONTH!?! Yes, some of us will start putting seeds in as soon as August. Don’t worry you don’t [...]
Tags: Grow Food At Home, Home Garden, Lasagna Garden, No Dig Garden, No Till Gardening
Oct
11
Posted by Adina
In an effort to quickly bring forth new gardens for this planting season I have completed and planted my second No Dig Garden Box. It is a little different than my first box mentioned in The No Dig Garden Box
I built this latest box with heavier lumber and it is wider and longer. I [...]
Tags: No Dig Garden
Oct
07
Posted by Adina
I have decided to pour on the coals. I am taking my own advice. I say “If you don’t have a food garden make one, and if you already have a garden add a little more growing space and create some surplus.”.
I am adding a few new beds for this growing [...]
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Tags: Lasagna Garden, No Dig Garden
