Growing Organically

A few examples of organic pest control and soil improvement
Photo:Poached Egg Plant - will attract beneficial insects. Flowers twice a year and self seeds abundantly
Photo:Growing onions from seed helps to avoid white rot
Photo:Soil testing on the allotment
Photo:Cutting comfrey leaves to make a liquid feed
Photo:Straining the comfrey feed through enviromesh
Photo:Using enviromesh to strain the liquid comfrey feed
Photo:Spring flowers to attract beneficial insects
Photo:Digging in green manure
Photo:Green manures - buckwheat and phacelia
Photo:Phacelia in flower
Photo:Carrots protected from carrot fly with a wall of enviromesh. Make the wall at least 60 cm high.
Photo:Grow carrots and nigella together to help deter carrot fly
Photo:Brassicas grown with nasturtiums as a decoy for cabbage white caterpillars and netting to keep the pigeons off
Photo:Seaweed mulch on brassicas - collect after rain or wash off salt first
Photo:Lovely worms making lovely compost
Photo:Ladybird pupa
Photo:Ladybird larvae munching their way through the blackfly on broad bean plants
Photo:Ladybirds and aphids
Photo:Hoverfly, white, an important pollinator
Photo:Hoverfly, yellow. Their young will help control aphids
Photo:White tailed bumble bee collecting nectar and pollinating plants at the same time
This gallery was added by Helen Gibbs on 23/08/2009.

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