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Organic Farming: Using Neem as a natual organic insecticide

ashish — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:52:05 +0000

Neem is a tree found primarily in India. Neem has been used for a long time for a variety of purposes in India, such as a natural toothbrush, its dried leaves are used when packing clothes so as to protect against insects. In addition, the oils from Neem are used as part of making soap [...]

Organic farming: Using organic insecticides

ashish — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:02:33 +0000

If you are into organic farming (or if you are following organic principles for your kitchen garden), then it is very important for you to know all about organic insecticides. One of the problems quote in traditional ways of farming is the use of chemical / synthetic pesticides that leave residues that make their way [...]

Organic Farming: How to prepare the soil ?

ashish — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:41:16 +0000

Soil preparation is critical if you are going in for organic farming. You do not have the liberty of adding a load of chemical fertilizers later if you find some deficiencies in the soil; and the motto for organic farming remains, “do adequate preparation rather than react later”. Making sure that the soil is healthy is [...]

Organic Fertilizer: What can you use ?

ashish — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 12:00:56 +0000

Now you are onto the organic farming bandwagon, either convinced by the health and environmental benefits, or convinced by the economics of it (or a combination of both). Now you want to know what are some of the fertilizers you can use as a part of organic farming ? After all, it is not possible [...]