The Power of Planning Your Organic Gardening

One fantastic way of making your organic gardening more easy and relevant to you and your family’s needs is to keep an log or journal even before you start working on your garden, so that you can record all of your results, and the reasons why some things work better than others.
You should for example keep a record of weather conditions in your journal as this will help you recognise conditions that are ideal for growing a particular fruit or vegetable and those that are not so good in the future.
Having a journal in which you record all of your organic gardening activities enables you to modify and improve on your organic gardening techniques and methods in the future.
With a journal or diary in place, the next thing to decide upon is, what you are going to grow?
For example, we have already established that four out of every five organic gardeners grows vegetables. If you are going to do the same because you want to provide healthy, nutritious food for your family, the next thing you need to decide is exactly what to grow.
Although the climate where you live will have a significant impact on what you can and what you cannot raise, there is no point in growing organic fruit or vegetables that nobody likes or eats. If your family loathe broccoli, there is absolutely no point in growing it no matter how nutritious it is as it will only go to waste.
So, list the fruits and/or vegetables that you and your family are most likely to eat because those are the ones to focus your efforts on.
Now having decided what to grow now you have to plan for harvesting it!
You have to give some thought to how you are going to store the foods that you grow. After all, no matter what you grow, the crop will need picking at harvest time, and you are not going to be able to eat everything at once. Hence, you need to think about how you are going to preserve the fruit and/or vegetables that you grow, and your capacity or ability to do so.
In this respect, think about what you can freeze and how much freezer space you have available, what you can dry and how you do so, what you can turn into jam, pickles and chutneys and how you are going to store them after they have been preserved, and so on.
This is all essential stuff but it is also a kind of stuff that a beginner is likely to give little or no thought to, with the result that they probably end up giving away most of the foods that they grow to stop it going rotten. Assuming that your primary intention is not to feed the neighborhood, you need to plan what you will do with what you grow well in advance.
With the right amount of planning you can make the very most of your first organic gardening experiences.

Happy Gardening

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Arabella

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