Are you an organic gardener?

[KatieRabbit]

Just starting to get an organic vegie garden going and was wondering if any of you garden by organic methods? Or biodynamic or permaculture methods? If so, anything you would like to share- what you grow, how you manage pests etc

[Oorki Galoorki]

we were until we sold our house and havent put in agarden in our rental yet.
we got all our seeds from diggers(most are organic seeds)
for pest we used a mix of milk and coffee left it to go off(so a couple of days) then sprayed that over the plants that had pests on them.
there is a planting method called companion planting which uses plants to prevent some pests on the other plants its not something we did.

[rosehannah]

Hi there, This is only my 2nd year of organic gardening, so I am new to it. I have printed out a great list of companion plant from Wikipedia it is the best list I have come across. I am starting to apply the principles in my garden. We use worm wee a lot from our worm farm, mulch everywhere we can and hand pick weeds and bugs. I am starting to collect our own seeds from plants that I have let go to seed. my first success stories are from lettuce, onion, tomato, pumpkin and cucumber. We have plans to keep chooks to help with the weeds and bugs in the orchard and so we can collect the manure.
We have planted some bird attracting trees around the vegie gardens which are alive with the fluttering and chirping of great range of birds hopefully they will help keep the bugs down.

[Phteven]

We're big on worm wee here.
A bantam is a great addition to any permaculture/organic garden. It will hunt down snails and bugs without doing the amount of damage that large chooks can do.

[KatieRabbit]

The things with chooks and us is that we have two dogs in the back yard and no fence in the front. Otherwise I would love to have some for the role they play and for eggies!