Looking for some organic tips to help you on your gardening journey? Here are five seemingly simple ideas that will ensure you grow a very successful organic vegetable garden:

1. Reuse Rainwater

Continuing the theme of self-sufficiency and everything becoming part of the great cycle, one organic tip would be to collect rainwater and use it to water your vegetable garden. Placed underneath your home’s drainspout, a rain barrel can help conserve water (and money) by capturing rain runoff from the roof. You’ll find a variety of rain barrels available online.  Look for ones that have a spigot for a hose attachment. Or make your own from large plastic trash containers.

2.     Make a Raised Bed

Gardening on a raised bed allows for ultimate control in soil nourishment. You are basically able to start from scratch and able to create optimum growing conditions.

3. Keep A Gardener’s Journal

Like any other project you take on or goal you set for yourself, taking notes along the way helps to make better decisions and choices. In a gardener’s journal you can log details such as when you planted, the conditions of the soil, time of year, composting materials, or anything else you can think of.

4. Grow Companion Plants

Knowing what to grow next to each other is a powerful gardening concept. Certain companion plants attract bugs, keeping them from your precious food supply. Other plants completely deter bugs from coming any closer.

5. Be Patient

This is the hardest one for most people. It is for me. The older I get the more sure I’m getting closer to becoming a patient human being only to find out that I haven’t learned patience at all. If there’s one thing that is going to imprint patience on my brain it’s gardening. Gardening is a big waiting game. You wait for your compost to be ready, you wait for your crops to come up, you wait for them to ripen. I am trying not to think of waiting as waiting. I am trying to recognize that waiting is a type of meditation

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