By Norman J Stone

K.I.S.S. (Keep It basic silly) is a part of a chain of introductions to the realm of homesteading (or smallholding) and self-sufficiency. And ‘Quick Bites’ is all approximately placing crucial details in any such approach that it may be ‘swallowed whole’, and absorbed at one sitting – in an effort to speak.
There are many various points to homesteading, and nutrition maintaining is perhaps the most very important. even if you're lucky adequate to have a bit of land big enough to name a domicile, you could however have a necessity to maintain your individual fruit or greens no matter if you're simply operating a raised mattress garden.
This ebook is an overview merely of the preferred tools used to maintain foodstuff of all types, and actually is an creation to the area of homesteading and meals holding particularly.

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What it is not: Before answering that question, let me state what it is NOT.  Organic gardening is not a new concept – It’s been around since the beginning of time. It only seems new to us, because for decades now we have been allowing the scientists and chemical manufacturers to rob both our brains and our pockets, to lure us into a dependence on modern farming techniques without asking too many questions about sustainability or health costs.  It is not something that is acceptable only to the ‘new age’ hippies or ‘tree huggers’, and it certainly has no spiritual connotations as some would have you believe.

So now that’s out of the way let’s look at what we mean by ‘Organic gardening’. What it is: Organic gardening should be considered as just a part of your overall lifestyle, and not just limited to growing your vegetables. This is because the idea incorporates a lifestyle of holistic or environmentally friendly living, that does you and your family the most good with a limited impact on the environment as a whole. The use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides is a ‘no go’ and instead emphasis is placed on bio-diversity and the use of natural products.

Also it could be that you have a sloped area that is unsuitable for growing vegetables simply because of the slope; this is ideal for a raised bed structure as you can level the growing area by making one side of the raised bed higher than the other. A simple solution but very effective for this kind of gardening and goes back to the idea of terraced gardening mentioned at the beginning of the article. In this instance put a little extra support in the ‘downside’ to prevent it bulging owing to gravity and the weight of in infill against the sides.

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