Organic Seeds Gardening
Seeds – Oregon Tilth organic or USDA organic?
Planning to start an organic veggie garden, and wondering what the differences are between Oregon Tilth certified organic seeds, and USDA certified organic seeds? Any thoughts??
This is a great question! I know that Oregon Tilth requires all of the products in the process to be organic. I tried to find answers on the USDA site but being that it’s a government site, it’s not easy to navigate.
Here are the links:
http://www.tilth.org/index.html
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_1OB?navid=ORGANIC_CERTIFICATIO&parentnav=AGRICULTURE&navtype=RT
You can email Oregon Tilth and ask them directly. I am sure you they will be able to give a great answer.
Sorry I don’t have a better answer! 
Organic Seeds Gardening
Constructing and Maintaining your Own Organic Vegetable Garden
To grow your organic vegetable garden is not a difficult thing and in fact many people who enjoy gardening are now turning to organic gardening methods. This doesn’t mean that you need to grow only organic herbs and vegetables in your garden. Organic gardening can encompass all aspects of gardening, including a flower garden or an ornamental garden as well.
Just because you want to have an organic vegetable garden that doesn’t mean that you only need to stick with the organic vegetable garden. You can expand to include such things as herbs as well if you like, not mention flowering plants and others.
The one thing that you do want to look out for when you’re growing your organic vegetable garden alongside your flower garden, is that your flower garden is also grown organically. After all, it kind of defeats the purpose of growing an organic vegetable garden if right next to it you use all sorts of chemical pesticides and fertilizers in your flower bed.
Other than that you should be fine when constructing and maintaining your own organic vegetable garden, but if you feel that you neighbor’s pesticide filled garden is too close to your own garden and that all your good efforts are going to waste you might want to look at either moving your own organic vegetable garden further away, or using pots, tubs and troughs to grow your vegetable garden.
The first thing that you need to decide when planting your organic vegetable garden is what types of vegetables you want to have. The next thing is to finding the right place to have your garden, along with how large you want, or can have, your garden. It is entirely possible to grown your organic vegetable garden in a small closed off patio on the 44th floor of your high rise apartment as long as you are willing to accept your limitations and work with them.
This means being aware that although you might want to plant an acre’s worth of organic vegetable crops, you will instead have to make do with a small 4×4 or even smaller sized enclosure in which to grow your organic vegetable garden.
Once all of these things have been factored in and you have a rough idea of what you want in your organic vegetable garden, and how big you want your garden to be, you can then move on to the serious subject of just where to get your organic vegetable seed or plant stock from.
Here, you might have to make a decision as to whether you want your organic vegetable garden to be planted from completely organic seed or plant stock, or whether, if you have difficulty in obtaining these, you want to resort to using plant stock from a nursery which is not organic, but which you will grow from scratch utilizing organic methods. Once all these are done, you can then get started on your organic vegetable garden.
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what is good a tomato specific organic fertilizer that I can buy?
I started a veggie garden. I bought 8 small tomato plants that are already in the ground doing good. I also grew about a dozen plants from seeds that are doing good as well ready for transplanting into the ground in about 1 more week. I cannot seem to find a tomato specific organic fertilizer with the good NPK ratio. Any recommendations?
I am located in Southern Nevada
I use Bill’s Perfect Fertilizer from Spray-N-Grow for my Tomatoes. It’s made of hydrolyzed fish, calcium, sugar cane extract, humus, and seaweed. It’s non-toxic and naturally high in NPK.
I’d also recommend using their Better Reds Mulch Film
http://www.spray-n-growgardening.com/prodinfo.asp?number=RED
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