Best Organic Gardening Secrets

Ellen Zientara is a nurse practitioner living in Wellesley. She is also an organic gardener who is a firm believer in connecting with Mother Earth, growing her own crops, and providing for the community. She encourages others to do the same. In this piece, she shares some of her tips.

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Brian J. Albertson - Editor, Producer, Director

Nancy Lynne Stone - Camera Operator

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Rydal Community Vegetable Garden is a small, voluntary scheme set up in the original walled garden of Rydal Hall, in the English Lake District. The garden had been disused and overgrown for many years. In 2005 work began to clear it, landscape it, and return the garden to productivity. The idea has been to create a working vegetable garden, which is maintained by volunteers, who in return benefit from sharing ideas and harvesting seasonal, local, organic produce. This has created an additional feature amongst Rydal Hall’s own, recently restored gardens, which can be visited by all as a place to see, learn and relax.

The Vegetable Garden has a small Visitors Centre, accessible paths and information signs. It is organised into roughly defined areas. These include a large, traditional Greenhouse and a Poly-tunnel, which are used to establish younger plants and also house warmth loving species including Vines, Figs and Tomatoes. There is an Orchard with many lesser-known varieties of tree, which is also where the Chickens and Bee Hives are found. There is a Sensory Garden at the top end of the hill, which is planted with Herbs and has seating and views across the whole garden and out to the hills beyond. And the rest of the garden is a terraced mixture of Fruit, Vegetables and Flowers, including Strawberries, Pears, Beans, Courgettes, Potatoes, Lettuce and many, many more.

These films are a monthly journey through both the progress made and the changes seen in the garden, the seasons and the local area, during 2007.

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A month ago my Mom and I extended my organic garden space and had a planting party to celebrate my birthday. We had to plant in April due to the unpredictable rain showers God has been gifting us with this spring. I wanted to take you all on a little tour of my garden’s progress. My greens are coming in abundance! Oh what a joy! I have just begun to start using them and they taste incredible. Everything here is organically grown from soil to seed and treated with love, fairies and friends, music (outdoor radio and my crazy singing) and loving light - water - and air from God.

I am growing atleast over 50 different types of garden gifts, all which are to be used RAW. This is REAL food. This is how we all should be eating - organical, homegrown or local, seasonal and raw & living foods. I pray over my garden and give gratitude to that which I pick and consume.

I hope you enjoy! I will update as it continues to grow for me. I am growing too many things to list here but if you have a question about something I am growing then I will be happy to tell you if I am growing it and how it is doing, etc.

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Rydal Community Vegetable Garden is a small, voluntary scheme set up in the original walled garden of Rydal Hall, in the English Lake District. The garden had been disused and overgrown for many years. In 2005 work began to clear it, landscape it, and return the garden to productivity. The idea has been to create a working vegetable garden, which is maintained by volunteers, who in return benefit from sharing ideas and harvesting seasonal, local, organic produce. This has created an additional feature amongst Rydal Hall’s own, recently restored gardens, which can be visited by all as a place to see, learn and relax.

The Vegetable Garden has a small Visitors Centre, accessible paths and information signs. It is organised into roughly defined areas. These include a large, traditional Greenhouse and a Poly-tunnel, which are used to establish younger plants and also house warmth loving species including Vines, Figs and Tomatoes. There is an Orchard with many lesser-known varieties of tree, which is also where the Chickens and Bee Hives are found. There is a Sensory Garden at the top end of the hill, which is planted with Herbs and has seating and views across the whole garden and out to the hills beyond. And the rest of the garden is a terraced mixture of Fruit, Vegetables and Flowers, including Strawberries, Pears, Beans, Courgettes, Potatoes, Lettuce and many, many more.

These films are a monthly journey through both the progress made and the changes seen in the garden, the seasons and the local area, during 2007.

Duration : 0:6:48

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Wayne’s organic garden, in Oneco, CT, shows how they plant garlic in the Fall. The garlic is sold at the Willimantic Food Co-op which specializes in local food and products.

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Rydal Community Vegetable Garden is a small, voluntary scheme set up in the original walled garden of Rydal Hall, in the English Lake District. The garden had been disused and overgrown for many years. In 2005 work began to clear it, landscape it, and return the garden to productivity. The idea has been to create a working vegetable garden, which is maintained by volunteers, who in return benefit from sharing ideas and harvesting seasonal, local, organic produce. This has created an additional feature amongst Rydal Hall’s own, recently restored gardens, which can be visited by all as a place to see, learn and relax.

The Vegetable Garden has a small Visitors Centre, accessible paths and information signs. It is organised into roughly defined areas. These include a large, traditional Greenhouse and a Poly-tunnel, which are used to establish younger plants and also house warmth loving species including Vines, Figs and Tomatoes. There is an Orchard with many lesser-known varieties of tree, which is also where the Chickens and Bee Hives are found. There is a Sensory Garden at the top end of the hill, which is planted with Herbs and has seating and views across the whole garden and out to the hills beyond. And the rest of the garden is a terraced mixture of Fruit, Vegetables and Flowers, including Strawberries, Pears, Beans, Courgettes, Potatoes, Lettuce and many, many more.

These films are a monthly journey through both the progress made and the changes seen in the garden, the seasons and the local area, during 2007.

Duration : 0:7:38

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