subject: How to Grow Zucchini – Here's a Simple Self-Maintaining Strategy for Growing Fresh Organic Zucchini [print this page] Hello there, Hello there,
If you want to know how to grow zucchini, then you're in for a real treat! See, in this article, I'm not only going to provide tips for growing fresh organic zucchini, I'm also going to share a simple strategy for setting up an organic vegetable garden that runs all by itself.
Yes, you read that correctly!
It's possible to have an organic vegetable garden that self-maintains. This means you can forget about doing tiresome gardening activities like turning soil, managing weeds, spraying chemical pesticides, rotate crops, etc
And that's not all.If established correctly; a self-maintaining vegetable garden can produce plenty more harvest than common traditional gardening practice.
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You know, it's not hard to set up a self-maintaining vegetable garden. We just need to use a set of ecological gardening principles in a systematic fashion.
Alright, let's talk about how to grow zucchini using ecological gardening strategies.
First let's talk a bit about seed planting. A good rule of thumb is to plant the zucchini seed approximately an inch deep.
If you're planting in cool weather, then it's a good idea to begin sowing the seeds indoors, ideally 3 to 4 weeks before winter season ends. When the frost season is totally over, you can start planting the vines in your garden.
To prevent weeds from sprouting, plant a variety of edible plants in your garden together with the zucchini vines. Remember to plant DENSELY and DIVERSELY. This is one of the main strategies of ecological gardening
The benefits of planting this way are threefold.
(1) Since all the niche spaces in your garden are filled with diverse range of edible plants, weeds are not able to spout. This is important if you ask meSee, when I first learned how to grow zucchini using traditional gardening methods, weeds were sprouting everywhere!
(2) The dense mixed-up planting arrangement develops a natural form of pest management. Pests are unable to detect their target plant species thru sight, because the plant's outline is blurred by a compact mass of green. While, the number of conflicting smells prevent pests from sniffing their target plant.
(3) The mixed-up planting arrangement prevents single species from dominating a single area, thus neutralizing the effects of mineral depletion. This means that you do not have to conduct crop rotation!
By the way, if you're interested in downloading a step-by-step video instructional series on how to grow zucchini onion along with other vegetables and fruits using ecological gardening strategies, just go to http://www.growingorganicfood.info for complete download details.
The downloadable video series and printable manuals will show you how to quickly set up a self-maintaining ecological organic vegetable garden. An ecological garden will help save you money and time.
How to Grow Zucchini Here's a Simple Self-Maintaining Strategy for Growing Fresh Organic Zucchini
