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gardening on-line since 1995 to help people go (and stay) organic!
Don't miss Mort Mather's Garden Spot! Start with our organic gardening
outline which tells beginner
gardeners they should start with the soil
because healthy soil grows drought, disease and pest resistant plants.
Read our organic gardening
blog and our environmentalist
blog to keep up with the politics and news affecting the organic
community.
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!
This
organic gardening site was created in 1995 by Scott Supak, who still
maintains and contributes to it,
with a lot of help from
his wife, Robin, and
friend Mort Mather.
Check out our new
Sustainable Store
which features organic and sustainable shopping solutions for a
progressive planet.
This time of year, we notice lots of people reading 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.
Cut
Flower Industry Drenched in Pesticides In many cultures fresh cut flowers are deeply symbolic. As a gift
they embody a universal desire for connection--to other people, to the
beauty of nature, to God. What is deeply ironic is the extreme disparity
between the symbol and the real circumstances of their production. Fact
is, the rapidly growing floriculture industry is a heavy user of
pesticides and is poisoning its workers and the environment in a number
of Latin American and African nations.
EPA asked to ban popular
herbicide
This AP story (via MSNBC) points
out many of the problems with Atrazine, which is banned in banned in
France, Germany and Italy. The National Resources Defense Council has
petitioned to ban its use in the US.
OrganicVolunteers.com
is an online database that allows you to
find or list any apprenticeship or
volunteer opportunities concerning
sustainability and the environment.
Organic Volunteers is a hub where
farmers can go online to exchange
information on our forum, post events on
the calendar and generally promote
organics.
The Safe
Fertilizers Campaign by CALPIRG has
discovered that our
farms, lawns and gardens are dumping
grounds for toxic waste! Here's a quote: “When
it goes into our silo, it's a
hazardous waste. When it comes out
of the silo, it's no longer
regulated. The exact same material.
Don't ask me why.” Dick Camp, President,
Bay Zinc Co. Fertilizer
Manufacturer.
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 Lawnsare 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.
We sell his organically
grown Hawaiian coffee here. 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. Dr. Faust also has
Organic Kona Coffee that is out of this world!
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 
!