2.1 Organic Gardening

• Organic gardening practises in crop production.
• Growing a short-season crop using organic gardening practises.
• Use of organic manure, organic pesticides and organic foliar feed.
• Mechanical weed control.
• The importance of organic gardening in the production of healthy foods.

• explain organic gardening practises in crop production
• grow a crop using organic gardening practises
• appreciate the importance of organic gardening in the production of healthy foods

“Why should we practise organic gardening?”

“How can we produce food crops through organic gardening?”

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1. What organic gardening is
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   Growing crops with plant and animal materials, and no agro-chemicals.
2. Organic and conventional compared
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   Slow and lasting, against fast and short-lived.
3. Choosing the site and the crop
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   Sun, water, drainage, and a crop that finishes inside a term.
4. Preparing the seedbed
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   Clear, dig, add, level — and the manure goes in the topsoil.
5. What organic manure does
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   It feeds the crop and rebuilds the soil at the same time.
6. Making compost
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   Layers, moisture and air — the decomposers do the rest.
7. Farmyard manure
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   Collect, heap, rot, apply — and fresh dung goes nowhere near a crop.
8. Making an organic foliar feed
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   A liquid feed sprayed onto the leaves, made from plants and animal waste.
9. Planting the crop
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   Twice as deep as the seed is wide, and spaced to suit the crop.
10. Controlling weeds without chemicals
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    Pull, cut or smother — all three beat a herbicide on a school plot.
11. Controlling pests without chemicals
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    Plant sprays, physical methods, and arranging the garden so the pest never arrives.
12. Watering and daily care
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    Deep and less often, early or late, and check the crop every few days.
13. Harvesting and keeping records
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    Pick at the right stage, and write down what actually happened.
14. Presenting the project, and why it matters
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    Safe food, low cost, better soil — and the evidence from your own plot.