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Finding Organic Gardening Tips

Where To Find Organic Gardening Help When You Need It

Whether you’re a beginner or a long-time organic gardener, everyone could use a little bit of gardening help now and then. Sometimes it’s learning the “how-to’s”, other times it’s help to solve a problem, and once in a while we’d just like a new organic gardening tip or idea.

So where can you find gardening help, ideas, how-to and organic gardening tips when you need to? Try out some of the following resources…

Organic Gardening Books

If you love books and can afford it, buy a few. It’s great to curl up on the couch and read and dream about gardening. That way you can play at gardening even in bad weather! Or check books out of your local library – that’s also a good way to see if you like a book well enough to buy it. There are some great gardening books out there!

Some of today’s best selling books include:

All New Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew
Anyone, anywhere can enjoy a Square Foot garden. Children, adults with limited mobility, even complete novices can achieve spectacular results. You can use this book to get ideas for small organic gardens!

Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long by Eliot Coleman
This book advocates a “plant-positive” approach to horticulture that surpasses chemical-dependent agriculture in every way—producing vegetables that are exceptionally nutritious, delicious, and healthy. It also has information on cold weather gardening, using the sun to raise a wide variety of traditional winter vegetables in backyard cold frames and plastic covered tunnel greenhouses without supplementary heat.

Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times by Steve Solomon (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)
Rediscover traditional low-input gardening methods to produce healthy food. Producing your own food is not only makes good economic sense, but you know what you’re eating.

The Organic Gardener’s Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control: A Complete Problem-Solving Guide to Keeping Your Garden and Yard Healthy Without Chemicals by Barbara W. Ellis and Fern Marshall Bradley
An excellent handbook with entries for common fruits, flowering plants, vegetables, and trees. Each listing has information on disease and pest problems and tips on how to solve them without chemicals. Especially useful sections feature photos of garden insects and diseases.

The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible: Discover Ed’s High-Yield W-O-R-D System for All North American Gardening Regions by Edward C. Smith
Ed’s system is based on W-O-R-D: Wide rows, Organic methods, Raised beds, Deep soil. With deep, raised beds, vegetable roots have more room to grow and expand unlike traditional narrow-row beds where over half the soil is compacted into walkways.

You can find books with every kind of information imaginable about gardening. There is information on picking the right plants for your climate, how to plan your garden, how to conserve water, and much more. Other specialized gardening help books give instructions on making water gardens, xeriscapiing, and gardens for specific locations or uses like attracting butterflies or hummingbirds.

Internet Sites On Organic Gardening

If you’re reading this, you obviously know the internet is a great place to look up useful organic gardening tips. Using a search engine, you can find gardening help for any specific problem you have. Browsing sites such as this one can give you even more gardening help, tips and fun ideas.

Master Gardening Classes

If you’re really keen on gardening, you might check out the nearest place to take a Master Gardening Class or check out your local colleges and adult education courses for gardening seminars or classes. Not all will focus entirely on organic gardening, but you can usually still learn plenty of helpful information.

When you need a little organic gardening help, just check out some of the above resources.

And above all… have fun!