In this article, I will discuss about
what is organic gardening? Where we can find organic gardening and
how we can benefit from it?
What is organic gardening?
If you want to understand the idea behind the organic gardening, you need to see the difference between the jungle and gardens and park?
What can you find at the nature?
Varied vegetation (trees, conversations, flowers etc...), animals, cover of natural ground (based on the rest of plants – dry leafs and etc…), law level of diseases and pests and more freshness air..
Those things are the basic of the organic gardening.
In other words, copying the surroundings in the nature to the immediate vicinity of the human being (his garden), within keeping on equilibrium between a three of the components of the garden: The flora, the lives and the ground in one hand and consideration in the needs of the human being in other hand.
The ecological balance in the nature is positive as a result of a little controlled intervention of people compared with public gardens and privates.
Varied vegetation
The organic gardening praises the growing plants that help to each other in limited space, in order to create and to keep the biological balance between the vegetation, lives and the ground.
Therefore, we need to pay attention at common principles when we choose the composition of the vegetation.
The first principle is to plant plants that suitable with the type of the ground and the local climate in the natural habitat, on the other hand planting of varied plants that can't grow properly next to each other will increase their sensitiveness to diseases and pests.
The same as human being, the plants compete between of them on the necessary factors to their existence: Light, food and water.
Planting plants with positive impact on other plants, such as herb and medical herbs helps to pleasant smell and certain defence from outburst of diseases and pests in different plants and even to improve out health and the quality of our food.
Example of good combination between different plants is: Nasturtium that in one hand repulsive and in other hand attracts the Cabbage Butterfly.
Planting plants that cause to enrichment of ground with available nitrogen to the plant, such as: Sweet Pea, Lupine and etc, in the entire garden, adding, color and beauty and in one hand, cause to rich ground with available nitrogen that required to development of the vegetation in other hand.
Animals
The organic gardening praises the combination between animals and plants because the animal kingdom involved in keeping the ecologic balancing and in prevention of diseases and pests in different plants.
Many plants live in cooperation with useful animals. In other words, the plants provide them food (powder, honeydew and fruits) and the animals help them with their need to fertilization and pollination.
For example, different kinds of ladybird eat the Aphids. Hoopoe lessens the population of the Mole Cricket and etc…
In order to turn the garden to place with a lot of useful animals, you have to insert source of water (fishpond), which will attract to him, together with the dense vegetation, a little carnivores, such as ichneumons and hedgehogs that necessary to the biological balance in the garden.
In contrast with organic gardening, conventional gardening pays main attention at the aesthetic aspect of the garden.
This method is common in the most of the modern gardens, and cause to vulgar intervention of the human being in the nature and violation of the violation balance.
Also, we can see this unchecked intervention through wrong agrotechnics methods, such as: defective trimming, slicing down, fertilization and irrigation.
Ground Fertility
The organic gardening pays careful attention to lifting and keeping the fertility of ground and says that this is important aspect for getting healthy and well built vegetation.
Based on this outlook, the ground is full of life place, which composed of tremendous numbers of Mikroaorgnzmim, (fungi, bacteria, insects etc...'), that some of them
influential positively on their germination and strength of the plants.
Fertility ground influential on the natural strength of the vegetation and in a roundabout way cause to reduce the use of disinfestations materials.
You have to remember that the resources of the ground are impoverish during the time and because of the vegetation, the climate, the herbarium and the animals in the ground. In order to keep the vitality of the ground, you need to return the ground the resources that it does lose gradually through the aspects and the tools that mentioned earlier.
The organic gardening says that it's so important to increase the fertility of the ground, you need to pay attention at complicated biological processes and there is no way to get it by one time scattering of fertilizer but with continued care during the entire year.
The most important component is compost. This is source of food to the useful insects, help them to multiply themselves and help to the ventilation of the ground.
On the other hand, the conventional gardening says that the ground is place only to plants and takes care to feed the plants with salts that contain micro mineral which enfeeble the ground and hit in useful micro-organism.
In the conventional gardening, there is no attitude to the rest of the aspects that impoverish the ground and because of this the ground becomes more feckless.
Ground cover
When we look at the natural area (which people don't touch it), you can't find naked ground, except of the dry desert. This is very important given because ground cover help to save in water and help to increase the fertility of ground.
There are two ways to ground cover, the organic way and the inorganic way. The organic way, composed of leftover of plants, trimmed branches, chips of tree and etc…
The inorganic way, composed of rubble and etc…
The advantages of organic cover:
Available fertilizers for the plants
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Organic ground cover that decomposed slowly by the micro-organism and useful insects cause to fertility of ground and provide fertilizers for the plants. The sign to high activity of micro-organism is gradual disappearance of the cover.
In the winter, the cover use to avoid the erosion from the wind and rain. In the summer, the goal of the cover is to avoid over warming of the ground and saving in water.
Reduction of vaporization of the water –
The cover reduces the vaporization of the water and thereupon you can save the water costs.
Avoid formation of rifts – the cover avoid formation of rifts in the ground that cause from the sun.
Temperature transition – the cover change the micricalim, the result is faster absorption of the plants in the garden at the first time of planting.
Herbarium – the cover avoid reproduction of herbarium. In the organic cover, there is a change in the herbarium, because of using with a lot of organic materials, which makes it easier to care in the herbarium that grows on ground.
Environment-friendly disinfestations
The most special thing in the organic gardening is the ability to grow healthy vegetables and fruits, within using in Environment-friendly materials and friendly materials for the human being.
One and important aspect of organic gardening is environment-friendly disinfestations
As opposed to the chemical pesticides, almost all the environment-friendly pesticides are not hurt in useful insects and in human being and in his surroundings.
Also, the environment-friendly
pesticides make the plants stronger and healthier.
For conclusion, after we learn about
what organic gardening is and how we can use it for our needs, all
you need to do is to work based on this method for living healthier
life…