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can seasol be used in organic vegetable growing??

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What is a good fertilizer to use on the corn that I'm growing in my organic veggie garden? They look "wimpy".

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I'd like to use an organic fertilizer. I have poor soil. =[

You could always do as Massasoit showed the Pilgrims, use fish. To be practicable for a moment, if as you say you have poor soil the first thing to do is introduce as much organic matter as you can. Do you live near a stable or farm where you can get plenty of manure, does your town collect the leaves every fall and compost them, all of those suggestions would be great for your garden. I would not suggest trying to use store bought peat moss, for one thing it is destroying the environment digging it up and two it oxidises and disappears too quickly. Good old farmyard manure is the best. Good luck and green fingers.

I see below that someone has suggested adding hay or straw to your garden, that's a strictly no-no.In the decomposition of the hay or straw it will delete the nitrogen from you soil. It needs nitrogen to break it down, that's why the farm manure must be well rotted and the leaves of course.

Does anyone have an organic garden?

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I want an organic garden. I am just starting out. Does anyone have any tips – what to read, certain veggies, fruit and herbs to grow and why, where to purchase the seeds or the plant, ect…..?

I can recommend a great soil amendment for organic gardening! It is called Pozzolan and it is an all natural volcanic diatomaceous soil amendment that will absorb and store water and nutrients at the root zone. Using Pozzolan will reduce the amount of water needed to keep your plants healthy. It will also create the perfect growing medium for the plants root system. Pozzolan is extremely porous and will improve the percolation rate in clay or sand based soils. It will also helps to break up or loosen the soil so that the root zone has a good mixture of air, soil and water.

It only requires one application, it will not leave the soil.

It is not available everywhere (yet) so you will need to ask at your local green house or nurserty if they carry it. Or check out one of the websites below, they may be able to help you find it.

Good luck and happy gardening!

SKG Sangha, India, Biogas and fertiliser from slurry

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SKG Sangha won an Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy in 2007. TO find out more visit http://www.ashdenawards.org/winners/skgsangha and check out the Ashden Awards Blog http://ashdenawards.blogspot.com

SKG Sangha has radically improved the lives of thousands of rural families in Karnataka, South India by supplying them with both dung based biogas plants for cooking and a specially designed unit that turns the slurry from the biogas plant into high quality fertiliser. The benefits of biogas are well known. It provides rural women with a cheap, reliable source of energy as well as reducing indoor air pollution and easing pressure on forest resources. Less well known is how turning the biogas residue into high quality fertiliser can increase crop yields and, more importantly, give rural women the chance to make a profit. The units supplied by SKG Sangha produce fertiliser simply by combining the slurry with straw and leaves and then adding worms which re-digest the mixture to produce vermicompost. This vermicompost improves the yields of family crops and the liquid output from the unit can be used as an organic pesticide. The growing demand in India for organic fertiliser means that women can earn as much from selling half the vermicompost they produce as the household earns from selling the crops they grow. Since 1993, SKG Sangha has installed over 43,000 biogas plants in the state of Karnataka alone.

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