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By Jonathan White Environmental Scientist and Horticulturalist and creator of Food4Wealth High yielding, low maintenance vegetable gardening When we think of organic gardening we tend to conjure up images of bearded warriors dressed in overalls who dedicate their lives to working long days in their vegetable plots.  While this may be a wonderful way to live your life, it doesn’t suit the

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By Jonathan White Environmental Scientist and Horticulturalist and creator of Food4Wealth The term Ecological Gardening seems to be gaining popularity.  But what is it?  My experience with Ecological Gardening started many years ago.  You see, I have always been a fence sitter.  As a teenager I could never make my mind up whether I wanted to be a horticulturist or an environmental scientist.

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By Jonathan White Environmental Scientist and Horticulturalist and creator of Food4Wealth We all know how much hard work there is in growing vegetables - digging, weeding, crop rotation, watering, fertilizing, planting winter crops, resting beds, spraying pests and weeds - the list goes on and on.  So imagine a vegetable garden that didn’t need any of these things.  Imagine a garden that never

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By Jonathan White Environmental Scientist and Horticulturalist and creator of Food4Wealth Organic vegetable gardening is one of the most important skills you can learn. Whether you want to grow vegetables for your own eating, sell organic fresh food or become a professional gardener (setting up and maintaining vegetable gardens for customers), we'll show you how to get started. Best of all

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By Jonathan White Environmental Scientist and Horticulturalist and creator of Food4Wealth Traditional vegetable gardens require an enormous amount of hard work and attention - weeding, feeding and strict planting schedules.  There is also the problem of seasonality, allowing beds to rest during the cooler months producing nothing at all.  Then we are told to plant green manure crops, add

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By Jonathan White Environmental Scientist and Horticulturalist and creator of Food4Wealth The breakdown of our food growing systems poses one of the biggest threats to our survival.  Our existence depends upon our agricultural systems, but what do our agricultural systems depend on?  The answer: water, air and soil.  These basic elements support all life-forms and without them, life as we know

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By Jonathan White Environmental Scientist and Horticulturalist and creator of Food4Wealth For many people, composting is just an alternative way of dealing with rubbish.  It prevents the garbage bin from getting full and smelly.  It’s also a way of disposing of grass clippings and leaves, which saves many trips to the garbage depot.  Whilst these things are valid, they are not giving compost

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