List of organic gardening and farming topics
This page is a list of topics that are relevant to both Organic gardening and Organic farming.
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Composting methods and systems
Windrow composting
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
- Succession planting
- Multiple cropping
- Intercropping
- 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 vetch (a. k. a. tare)
- 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
- Cover crops
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
- Peter Caddy
- 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
- Eliot Coleman
Related topics
- Allotments
- Biodynamic farming
- Biodynamic gardening
- Botany
- Community Supported Agriculture
- Forest gardening
- Local food
- Permaculture
- Organic certification
- Organic farming
- Organic food
- Organic movement
- Synergistic gardening
- Vegan organic horticulture and agriculture
- Wildlife gardening
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