Organic Choices for Gardening safely!

If you are curious about products to use that are organic and safe for your family and pets....this is what I use!

Neem Oil I use to spray as a dormant spray for the fruit trees and works well for a aphids!

Saf T Side is a good PEST CONTROL

SLUG GO is good for snails and slugs....which are in abundance this year for some weird reason, this is KID and PET SAFE!!!!! Very important!!!!

Meet Mr Fuji Apple and Miss Elberta Kim Peach

Well I went out today and bought my Mutsu's Apple Mate Mr Fuji....and while I was out I bought a JUICY PEACH!

In my last post I wrote I had found out my Mustsu Apple needed a pollinator....one choice was a Fuji....so I got one of those!

PLUS I want to show off my pruning techniques I learned yesterday at my class I went to, so all the trees are pruned and sprayed with dormant spray......and I dont know if I mentioned this but I garden organically.....for the safety of my family and my animals!

Winter Veggie Garden 2010

Im doing alittle project this year, partly as a New Years Resolution and trying to be a better Gardener...and a article in Mother Earth News they asked for people all over the US to log how much produce they can grow.....so I took the challenge.

January 6th 2010
The kids and I planted Part 1 of the Garden:
18 cabbage plants (2 varietys)
12 brussel Sprouts (2 varietys)
approx 24 Yukon Gold Gourmet Potaotes

I planted late because we have had some really bad frosts....one snap was 2 weeks of 14 degree weather.

So when we planted we tucked all the plants in hay to help protect them!
Things to come in the Winter Garden:
Carrots
Beets
I wanna try Fennel
Spring Salad Mixes
Spinach

Today I went to a "How the prune your fruit trees" Seminar....it was good but alittle long and my butt hurt sitting for so long! LOL I was quit dissapointed to learn that my Apple tree I have ( Mutsu) needs another apple tree to help with the pollination process....and I was under the impression that my tree was a self pollinator!!! So I have to do some rearranging and buy a Fuji Apple Tree to help its friend the Mutsu!

Fruit Trees I have:
Mutsu Apple
Kuboda Fig....which I dont like and Im pulling it out and replacing it with a Mission Fig. Kuboda Fig is a white fig with a yellow flesh and has a honey taste.... NO LIKEY!
And I have a French Prune
Im getting a Fuji Apple and a Elberta Kim Peach


I also bought 18 Swiss Chard plants to plant in the garden bed!!! I LOVE SWISS CHARD!

Here is some pictures of January 6th first planting:

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Top of Hat:
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