Storing Your Organic Vegetables
January 26, 2010 by admin
Filed under Organic Food, Organic Gardening
After harvesting your vegetables from your garden you will need to find a way to store them for later use. Since many of the vegetables can spoil within a week, properly storing them is important. Some vegetables are easier to store than others but most organic vegetables can be stored and saved in some way or another.
Before you start, you’ll need to know how many of the vegetables you will want to store for later. If you have a lot, you can give some away to friends and family. The rest will need to be properly stored. Many grocery stores sell jars and supplies needed for preserving and canning vegetables. Some manufactures will even include instructions on how to store the vegetables too.
Another way to store vegetables is to use food dehydrators. This is a machine that is used to dry the vegetables before storing them. Many vegetables can be used in this machine, but you’ll want to be careful to make sure the vegetables are not roasting.
Root Vegetables
Root vegetables include potatoes, carrots, potatoes, and more can be stored in places that are cool, dark, and dry. Storing them in cellar, basement, or some pantries is an excellent place and the vegetables can last for up to 2 months.
Corn
Corn can be stored in the refrigerator for a couple months. If you’re planning to store them longer, freeze them with the husk removed first.
Tomatoes
Tomatoes are a gardeners favorite. They can be stored on the counter-top if it’s still green. Tomatoes can also be stored in the refrigerator. For others who want to use tomatoes for later use in sauces, drying them is the best choice.
Above are some storage tips for a couple vegetables. Each vegetables will have their own different storage needs and you’ll need to know if you want them to last for a long time. If you are unsure, try searching the Internet for each type of vegetable storage needs.
Organic Gardening Compost
January 27, 2010 by admin
Filed under Organic Compost, Organic Gardening
When you have an organic garden, one of the most important ingredients that you’ll need for it is organic compost. Compost is a natural fertilizers that can improve the health and growth of your crops. These natural fertilizers can be found around your house. It’s simple to do and below are some helpful tips to get you started with organic compost.
First, you’ll need to gather the materials. Organic compost can be made up of dead leaves, tree branches, grass clipping, dinner leftover, bones of cows and other farm animals, food scraps, and dead plants. All these things are a good source to start a compost.
Once you gather everything together, pile them up somewhere around your house. You may want to put it somewhere that’s hidden from view because the smell and look of it will disgust most people.
Next, you must aerate the pile of compost. You can use a rake or pitchfork to turn your pile over. This must need to be done every 2 days or so. Mixing them will get the air to help the materials decompost.
After mixing it, gather some worms and put them in the pile. Red worms are the best to use because not only will they produce excellent compost on a regular basis, but they will reproduce themselves allow you to create more compost as the population of the red worms increases. In addition, there will be some worms that will entire the compost pile on their own.
In a few weeks or so, you should have beautiful dark compost that is full of natural ingredients ready for your plants. If you have already planted the crops, take some soil around the crops and mix some of the compost with it. This will make the soil full of nitrogen and potassium for the roots of the plant to absorb.
Creating organic compost can be fun to do and will make your vegetables in the garden very happy. They will grow healthy and strong, and it will taste better than those than uses traditional fertilizers to grow them. Best part to using compost is that you’re helping save the environment by nothing releasing anymore harmful chemicals into the soil.
