1. Planting an Organic Garden:
Samuel J. Lopez

2. Starting
Starting your organic garden.
For the healthiest plants, make sure you
have good growing conditions. For most
For the healthiest plants, make sure you
vegetables,good growing conditions. Forsun (at least 6
have that means full most
hours of vegetables, sun a day). Ifsun (at least 6 have
direct that meansday). If you
hours of direct sun
a full you have poor
poor soil, amend it lots of organic matter,
soil, amend it with with lots of organic
such as compost.
matter, such as compost.

3. Wouldn’t you like to harvest fruits and
vegetables as shown above.

5. First, be sure you have good growing conditions.
The above is good soil.

6. These are not
good conditions.

7. Use organic matter, such
as compost, when good
Growing conditions are
unavailable.

8. Choose seeds carefully.
Plant seeds
according to
their family.

9. This is a natural economic way of feeding your garden.

10. Organic Garden Materials
• http://www.planetnatural.com/site/index.ht
m
• This website provides various resources
used for organic gardening, from lady
bugs to compost kits.

11. Each year rotate the
planting format of
your seeds.

12. Maintain your garden throughout the growing season.

13. Use cocoa hulls to mulch ls
your garden.
They are environmentally
safe and add “ flava” to your
garden.

14. Pea Straw is a good natural fertilizer.
However it is more costly compared to manure.

15. Remember to weed
your garden daily.

16. Also clean your garden
daily. Pick up dead plants,
leaves, and other debre.

17. Water your garden with a good old fashion water bucket.
Plants need direct contact with water, and sprinkler and hose
may cause disease.

18. Planting flowers around your garden may deter
insects, and makes it look nice.

19. Your garden grows, and is
becoming ready to harvest.

20. Most crops will be ready to harvest by August and
September. Be sure to make a compost pile with
useful waste left over in your garden for next
year. Enjoy!!