Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

Hi Amnity, welcome to the clan.
Fertilizer. Organic Fertilizers have come a long way in the last 40 years.
There are a couple of outfits one being Whitney Farms and another called Dr.
Earth who have made the organic fertilizers granular and have reduced them in
to 5lb Cereal box size. So to start with you should use and all purpose
fertilizer. That is a fertilizer where all the numbers are the same. Like 5-5-5
or something like that and as things get further along in the season you want to
add something like a 0-0-1 and this will trigger in the plants the shift to
fruit production.
Now about Composting......there are ways that the landlord won't even know
because you are using one of your bins. I suggest you google Vermi-culture. All
ya need is worms. Speaking of which, when you get your boxes going add a few red
worms to each box. Go to the sporting goods section of the store and you can buy
a dozen for about a couple of bucks. They will help keep the soil from
compacting and they will add a little fertilizer of their own to the soil.
So again welcome to the group and remember the only dumb question is the one
not asked!!
Jeff

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From: Amity <havingagreatfulday@yahoo.com>
To: "Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com" <Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sun, April 3, 2011 11:13:12 AM
Subject: [Organic_Gardening] Hi! New to the group and to gardening!

Hello everyone! My name is Amity, I am a stay at home mom and student. I grew
up around gardening and since being out on my own I have made one half hearted
attempt to grow produce for our house. I really would like my daughter to have
a deep respect for the earth and I truly believe that making and maintaining an
organic garden will be a big help in developing that.

For our first family garden we are planning on using old recycling bins. Our
city just got new recycling cans and has a plethora of the old bins just laying
around. Because people don't realize they can be reused or recycled. Anyways I
have about 7 and am working on acquiring at least 7 more. Since we are new to
this any advice would be much appreciated.

Oh just a little geographic info. I live in northeast Indiana, can't compost
because our landlord won't let us:( I am also trying to get a work share at a
local CSA to supplement what we grow. I plan on canning any extras. Oh and I
would love some advice on organic fertilizer and rain water collection.

Amity

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