What’s Your Organic Gardening Style?

Organic gardening fits many different gardening styles. Where you are gardening helps dictate what style of organic gardening you can reasonably manage. If you understand what type of gardening will work best for your situation, you can plan better and likely increase your yield of vegetables or flowers.

Community Gardening

If you haven’t got any place to garden and enjoy socializing, community garden may be your best bet. It’s also great for someone learning to garden, as there are usually more experienced gardeners around to help you out and answer your questions.

Community gardening members work to make their community a greener place. Sometimes there is a plan for each area, and other times members may plant whatever they wish.

It’s a great way to learn to garden and help out your community at the same time.

Impact Gardening

This type of garden seeks to maximize a relatively small space. Plants are often crowded together which helps shade out weeds. Plastic or an organic mulch is also often used to cover the ground and keep weeds at a minimum. It’s a fairly easy to maintain sort of organic garden.

Indoor Gardening

This is a broad category, and includes everything from conservatories and greenhouses to growing plants inside your home. Most people who love to garden also grow a few house plants, but you can also grow vegetables inside. There are many lighting and heating systems available to make this easier. If you just can’t get enough of gardening, this maybe something you’d like to try.

Residential Gardening

This is by far the most common style of gardening. Just as the name suggests, it’s a home garden. It’s intended for growing vegetables for your family, not to market.

You can use plant boxes or pots, or have a garden plot. The biggest requirement is someplace with enough light. It’s helpful to have your garden as close to the house as possible to make it easier to water, weed and keep pest free.

Starting with a small home garden is a good way to get into organic gardening. It can grow in size if you like as you get more proficient.

Specialized Gardening

There are specialized gardens all over the place. Botanical gardens are one type. Gardens in parks, amusement parks and other tourist attractions are another. There is usually a big staff maintaining these gardens, and certainly not all of them are maintained as organic gardens.

Water Gardening

Water gardening is quite different, and mostly for ornamentals, not to grow food. If you have a pond, or want to make one, this can be a unique challenge. For beginners, sometimes a small water garden in a half barrel works well. It’s fun to balance the ecology of your water garden and see what you can grow, and what critters come to visit.

Whatever type(s) of garden you choose, make it organic and forego the use of chemicals. No need to handle such stuff, and no need to put it in the soil and water table.

And above all, enjoy your gardening efforts!

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