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Permaculture Techniques - Organic Gardening
Organic gardeners tend to do the following when planning and managing their properties:
- Manage the whole garden organically - not just the fruit and vegetables.
- Make the garden 'wildlife friendly', encouraging natural creatures to control pests.
- Learn to distinguish pests from predators
- Play to your garden's strengths, capitalising on its particular characteristics.
- Make soil care a priority.
- Make compost and leafmould to feed the soil .
- Reuse and recycle, to cut down the use of finite resources and reduce disposal problems.
- Use organically grown seeds as far as possible.
- Consider the environmental implications when choosing materials for hard landscaping, fencing, soil improvement and so forth.
- Collect rain water, and reduce the need for watering by improving the soil and growing appropriate plants.
- Make local sources your first choice.
- Stop using slug pellets!
- Control weeds without herbicides.
- Avoid the use of preservative treated wood.
- Say 'NO' to genetically modified varieties .
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