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gardeners by Mort Mather,
former president of the Maine Organic Gardeners
and Farmers Association! Ask Mort
your organic gardening
questions in the Garden
Spot.
This is the place for organic gardening advice! We have books and articles about soil, tilth, organic food, organic facts, and hemp! Organic gardening advice, books, hints, tips, articles. Improve your soil tilth naturally. We have info on: organic pest control, weed control, plant health, vegetables, fruits, trees, herbs, and plenty more! Ask Mort Mather!
Quick
organic gardening tip:
When using insecticidal soap always use purified water;
the chlorine
and other contaminates in your tap water, when mixed with the soap, could actually do more damage
than good. Make sure your soil is healthy and you'll have a lot less problems that
need sprays of any sort.
Avid gardeners should check out the newsgroup rec.gardens which has all kinds of info from really nice folks who know their gardening!
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Our friend Ellen runs a business called Goldpetals. She makes high-quality natural skin care products in upstate New York.
Our
friend Jackie has started a
natural and organic pest control with cedar oil business! Check it
out! Cedar oil works as a natural barrier to pests to help you control
mosquitoes, flies, fleas, chiggers, ticks, chinch bugs, grub worms,
mites, mole crickets, earwigs, slugs, snails, caterpillars, beetles,
June bugs, May bugs, root maggots, army worms, weevils, wire worms,
ants, and termites.
Our friends at
Nectar
Hills Farm now have a
CSA (community supported agriculture) program so you can support
this great farm and get discounts on the meat, organic produce, honey,
cheese, and more! Remember,
grass
fed meat is better for you, the animal, and the planet.
Check out our new Sustainable Store which features organic and sustainable shopping solutions for a progressive planet.
We moved and we're gardening again! We got to zone 5 of upstate NY just in time to put in a little fall garden of spinach, onions, lettuce, greens, arugula, and peas (which the deer just love). In celebration of our return to the soil, I've started blogging again at the organic garden blog, which was just rated one of the 100 best organic blogs! Wow, when we started all this, there weren't any blogs! Just us answering emails on this site...
We're proud to be the host of Mort Mather's Garden Spot organic gardening articles. Makes sense to brush up on the lazy man's advice for organic gardening, since a little work now will save a ton later. Mort has a new website and a blog now!
Our favorite organic Kona coffee farm is under new management, and the coffee is better than ever! And, you farmers will love the Hawaii organic coffee farming blog, where you can follow the trials and tribulations of restoring and running an organic coffee plantation on the big island of Hawaii.
Check out our garden store. Our organic gardening advice outline is at the bottom of this page! Eating organic food is better for you and our planet. Get the facts. Don't miss Mort Mather's recommended organic gardening books.
Read more at the organic gardening news archives and our organic gardening blog.
Organic Gardening Books
Setting records organically: How to Grow World Record Tomatoes: A Guiness Champion Reveals His All-Organic Secrets by Charles Wilber by Charles Wilber.
Getting to the root of the matter: Start
With the Soil : The Organic Gardener's Guide
to Improving Soil for Higher Yields, More
Beautiful Flowers, and a Healthy, Easy-Care
Garden, by Grace Gershuny. Hey, Mort's been
saying that all along.
Organic Gardening Articles
How to improve your soil, by Scott Supak
We get so many pest and disease control questions that
are best answered with the phrase "healthy plants grown in
healthy soil are more drought, disease, and pest resistant,"
that I decided to write an article on how to make your soil
healthy. Read this article to turn
your lawn and garden into a perfectly balanced ecosystem.
Mort Mather's Garden Spot
Mort's
a farmer who understands the importance and benefits of being organic.
He believes
deeply in the "soil bank," and he explains it well to anyone who will
listen. For the beginner, novice, or expert, Mort's sense of humor and
straightforwardness, you will walk away feeling like you met the
guru.
Worms
Worms are nature's composting, fertilizing, aerating, tilling machines!
They do all the work for you. If you don't have worms in your soil, then you've been
spraying poison, haven't you? Any synthetic chemical, especially fertilizer, is
poison to worms. And since most people over-fertilize, especially their lawns, fertilizer becomes poison to everyone.
Hemp
Industrial
hemp production could help the condition of our soil considerably. While sugar is
subsidized to insure its profitability, no such subsidies would be necessary
for
hemp. Hemp grows in poor soil, with very little care, and actually helps soil that
has suffered chemical exposure. Several states now have pending industrial hemp
bills! Write your representatives!
Organic Lawns
Organic Lawns are easier and cheaper to maintain, and they're
better for you, your kids, and your environment!
Organic Hawaii
Organic Hawaii is our guide to organic Hawaiian agriculture. They still burn the
sugar cane, but there are a lot of people into organic agriculture in Hawaii, and I've
attempted to list a good portion of them at Organic
Hawaii. 
Dr. Robert Faust (Big Island of Hawaii) helps soil through
the use of Humic Products. As you can see from the size of this cauliflower, his methods work. He has all kinds
of in-depth information at his site
about using humic products to increase the tilth and productivity of your soil.
Humates are the salts of humic acids and come from the remains of plant and animal life
that accumulated in a vast freshwater sea in the western US.
Here's a bunch of organic
gardening books , gardening
posters, and art
prints!
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