List of organic gardening and farming topics
This page is a list of topics that are relevant to both
Organic gardening and
Organic farming
Composting methods and systems
German mound
Leaf mold
High fibre composting
Worm compost
Spent mushroom compost
Sheet composting
"Humanure" (composting human waste)
Green manure
- Leguminous plants
Comfrey
Seaweed fertiliser
Techniques
- No dig gardening
- Companion planting
- Crop rotation
- Weed control techniques (see also 'weeds' below)
- Stale seed bed
- Xeriscaping (water wise gardening)
- Greywater irrigation
- Pollination management
Tools
Cultivation;
- Fork
- Hoe
- Trowel
- Kirpi
Lawncare
Pruning and tree care;
- Pruning saw
- Bow saw
Propagation
- Growing from seed;
- Seed saving
- Seed bed
- Stratification
- Taking cuttings
- Root division
Wildlife in the garden
- Birds in the organic garden
Crops
- List of vegetables
- How to cultivate barley
- How to cultivate beans
- How to cultivate tares
- How to cultivate potatos
- How to cultivate turnips
- List of herbs
- Fruit
- Fruit trees
- Fruit tree forms
- Pruning fruit trees
- Fruit tree propagation
- Fruit tree pollination
The ornamental organic garden
- List of flowers
- Flower album (illustrations of many ornamental flowers)
- Organic lawn management
Pests and diseases
- Integrated pest management
- Biological pest control
- Physiological plant disorders (ie,plant disorders caused by environmental factors, such as weather conditions, nutrient deficiencies, etc)
Nutrient deficiencies
- Calcium deficiency
- Iron deficiency
- Magnesium deficiency
- Manganese deficiency
- Nitrogen deficiency
- Phosphorus deficiency
- Potassium deficiency
Plant pathology (ie, plant diseases caused by fungi, viruses, bacteria, etc)
- Honey fungus
- Specific replant disease
- Rust (fungus)
- Disease resistance in fruit and vegetables
Weeds (see also 'weed control techniques' above)
- Indicator plants
- Dynamic accumulators
Organic organisations
- Henry Doubleday Research Association (main organisation promoting organic gardening in the UK)
- Rodale Institute Rodale Institute
- Soil Association (UK)
- Permaculture Association (Britain)
- Good Gardeners Association (UK)
- Vegan Organic Network
Some important figures in the organic gardening movement (please add names in alphabetical order)
- Lady Eve Balfour
- Marc Bonfils
- Dr Shewell Cooper
- Bob Flowerdew
- Masanobu Fukuoka
- Alan Gear
- Geoff Hamilton
- Robert Hart
- Emilia Hazelip
- Lawrence D Hills
- Sir Albert Howard
- Joy Larcom
- Bill Mollison
Related topics
- Permaculture
- Forest gardening
- Synergistic gardening
- Vegan organic horticulture and agriculture
- Biodynamic gardening
- Wildlife gardening
- Allotments
- Organic farming
- Botany
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