Growing Hot Pepper Plants In Your Garden

Hot pepper plants are easy to grow in your garden. You can grow a variety of peppers including hot and mild peppers, as I have both in my garden, growing among the tomatoes, cucumbers and all my other growing garden plants. I do not use any chemicals, to keep my garden organic. I create my own garden fertilizer using compost bins in my yard. Any green waste, from my yard I collect and place it in the compost bins.

I initially started growing hot pepper plants using planters, but have since moved them into my garden. I heard stories that peppers were difficult to grow, but I was lucky and did not have any problems in maintaining a successful garden with my favourite organic produce in my backyard.

Apart from hot pepper plants, I now grow mild pepper plants, to increase the variety in my garden. After I collect all my peppers, I place them in jars, making my own varieties of pickled peppers. I add cut cucumbers and unripened green tomatoes, with plenty of salt and lemons from my lemon trees.

I make a number of jars, full of pickled peppers, that I give some away to my neighbours, friends and relatives. I have separate jars for hot peppers and mild peppers as some people do not like hot pepper, while other people specifically request for hot peppers. I now have people asking me if my pickled peppers are ready. I seem to have built a reputation in my neighbourhood for quality pickled peppers!

Whenever we have a family get together, a social event or a dinner party, there is always plenty of peppers and other produce from my garden. I love garden fresh produce, as I can taste all the natural flavours, as I can pick it and place it on my meals on the same day.

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Avoiding Chemicals With A Weed Prevention Program

Weed prevention program without using chemicals in your garden, requires lots of hard work by pulling out weeds, whenever you see them in your garden. This may take up too much of your time and may even strain some of your muscles.

Gardening is a pleasure and not a torture session. Besides, there are many retired and disabled people keeping themselves active with gardening, who may find it difficult pulling out weeds.

If you do not wish to use chemicals to keep weeds out, then you can take steps to prevent weeds from growing in your garden. For example, you can cook weeds, by placing black plastic garden tarps to cover the weeds on your garden, with the hot sun bearing down on them under the tarps.

When your garden plants have finished giving you garden produce for the season, then is the time to take steps to stop the growth of weeds in your garden.

This is one of a number of steps you can take to prepare your garden for a weed prevention program, where you can prevent the growth of most weeds. If you do not allow weeds to grow, then you would not have to pull weeds out! Life can be made so much easier for the lazy gardener!

Taking these weed prevention steps, helps you to avoid the use of chemical agents like herbicides, and it may help you keep you garden chemical free, making it an organic garden. Many people these days, maintain an organic garden in their backyard, so that they can avoid all the tasteless fruit and vegetables available in many food stores.

When you use freshly picked herbs, vegetables and fruit from your garden, you can use them in your meals straight away and taste all the natural flavours flooding your meal. You may not realise there was so much flavour, until you start using your garden produce to make your meals.

You can grow much more garden produce, by taking up steps to eradicate weeds with your weed prevention program.

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Creating Your Natural Fertilizer With Garden Compost

Garden compost in your garden, is a natural fertilizer without all the chemicals you get in a chemical fertilizer. You can make your own garden compost with a compost pile or compost bins in your backyard, or buy organic garden compost from your local garden nursery.

Making your own compost, allows you to make nutrients for your garden, to help your fruit and vegetable plants grow. As every gardener knows, you need to add nutrients to your soil, especially if the soil lacks nutrients for growing plants. It is easy to make your own natural garden fertilizer using green waste and food scraps.

You can reduce the amount of food scraps you send off to land fill, by adding them onto your compost pile. You can add yard clippings, fruit, vegetables and left over food onto your compost pile.

These are the steps you can take to help reduce the amount of waste being sent to landfills, by creating useful nutrients with garden compost.

If you do not have the time and patience to create your own garden compost, you can buy organic garden compost from many nurseries. I have found the price of the organic compost much lower than the chemical fertilizers, so you can save on the cost of fertilizer by buying garden compost from your nursery.

Growing your vegetable plants in your own garden, allows you to pick garden fresh fruit and vegetables to use in your meals on the same day. If you do not use chemical fertilizers and other chemicals in your garden, then you may have an organic garden. Many people are keeping themselves busy with an organic garden in their backyard and enjoy the more natural flavors of freshly picked fruit and vegetables.

With an organic garden, you can grow tomatoes, peppers, herbs and many other fruit and vegetables. You can even grow organic lemons and oranges on miniature trees, which do not take much space in your yard, as the trees are rather small, but have plenty of fruit.

These days, there are many areas of your yard, you can use to make garden compost.

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