All You Need to Start an Organic Gardenby Sabrina Dawkins Chicken wire to reduce pest activity. Plastic garden stakes to hold up the poultry netting. A hammer to nail in the garden stakes. Watering the spot first or waiting until a rain will loosen the soil so you can hammer the stakes in deeper. A

How to Save Money and Live Organicallyby Sabrina Dawkins Be patient. We are socialized in this era to want things fast: fast food, fast results. We expect immediate results when we embark on something, becoming frustrated when the results don’t come quickly. You have to start thinking long term and only buy things that will

Do Not Pick Greens, Leaves off Leafy Vegetable Plants Until They are Fully Grown by Sabrina Dawkins Do not start picking your green leafy vegetables until they are mature. Years ago while browsing YouTube, I heard John on his YouTube channel Learn Organic Gardening at GrowingYourGreens say that you should only pick maybe one leaf

Why Seeds Don’t Sprout by Sabrina Dawkins When seeds planted in starter pots have failed to germinated, it’s usually been due to one of three things: old or bad seeds, wrong temperature to plant, or heavy soil. Seeds left over from last year’s growing season usually have a significantly decreased generation rate. The newer the

Make Use of Trash in an Organic Garden by Sabrina Dawkins The city could pick up my trash once every three months, and the bin still wouldn’t be filled all the way to the top, and there would be no odor because nothing that could decompose would be in there, only plastics. Full compost cans

Transplanting Vegetable Plants into an Organic Garden by Sabrina Dawkins I don’t direct sow into my organic garden because the composting organisms eat the seedlings. However, when my plants go to seed and the seeds drop to the ground, sometimes those seeds produce new plants that grow and thrive. I plant seeds in pots consisting

Easy Composting to Amend and Add Nutrients to the Soilby Sabrina Dawkins My first compost bin was a wheeled 32-gallon outdoor plastic trash can that I drilled a lot of holes in: lid, sides, and bottom. I now have five compost bins and put things in them that will decompose, such as paper, cardboard, apple