Comments on: Veganic Gardening At Home

By: Swati Prakash

Swati Prakash — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 07:32:00 +0000

I feel that using horses is exploitative and can often pose danger to horses, eg racing that leads to injury, death and disease, also they get horribly slaughtered at the end of their slavery period. Vegans are against exploitation of animals. worms can be found naturally in soil and allowed to live and thrive within or breed naturally in compost pile. Veganism is all about avoiding deliberate animal exploitation – as much as practically possible.

By: Tavia Noel

Tavia Noel — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 15:55:00 +0000

I found the EcoScraps brand last year, by reading this post:

https://myveganjournal.com/the-dirt-on-vegan-gardening/

I think I’ll eventually try EcoScraps plant compost when I have space to garden outside, but I used their potting mix and I had a problem with it not draining well in my pots contributing to fungus gnats everywhere–so I can’t really recommend it, although I may find something to add to it to help the drainage (perlite or vermiculite, maybe?) to see if it can actually work and not rot my plant roots that way.

Another vegan potting soil I found is actually from Gardener’s Supply:

https://www.gardeners.com/buy/potting-soil-mix-20-quarts/8592211.html?utm_campaign=PLA&utm_medium=googleshopping&utm_source=google&SC=XNET9983&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI2Ne7gMTK4AIV1B-tBh1iRQnEEAQYAiABEgIlRPD_BwE

This one (though not specifically a potting mix) looks promising as well:

https://buildasoil.com/products/living-organic-soil-vegan-mix?variant=8798896717941

I’ve also contemplated mixing my own with help from these two links (but have yet to do so):

http://www.artfulveganliving.com/permaculture/veganic-potting-mix/

http://www.myvegangarden.com/?p=13

There are also several vegan fertilizers (for new gardeners, fertilizer is different than garden soil and potting soil, it’s more of a food you add to the soil periodically) you can get online, and this post provides a good list:

http://gentleworld.org/easy-guide-to-vegan-organic-fertilizers/

I hope this helps someone, I had a hard time beginning to figure things out last year, and know I’ll need to continue to research and experiment each year :)

By: CineFile79

CineFile79 — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 21:06:00 +0000

Really great and helpful article! I’m based in the US and we are about to start an organic garden at our home. We are really struggling to find an organic, vegan, potting soil. Do you have any links you could provide to brands that sell organic, vegan soil? I tried looking up the brand you posted a photo of, Gardeners, but the only thing in the US is a company called Gardener’s Supply Store, and none of their soils are vegan. Thank you.

By: Quora

Quora — Sun, 09 Nov 2014 00:40:11 +0000

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No dude. Stop trying to science-deny. Veganic permaculture is the ONLY morally justifiable and sustainable form of agriculture. This is proven by science: Sub-Section 4B: Text-Based Info (primarily): Sub-Section 4B1: Environmental Destruction (primaril…

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By: RockMyVeganSocks

RockMyVeganSocks — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 21:14:00 +0000

Great gardening tips! Sadly I do not have an outdoor space for a garden at this point, but I look forward to putting your advice to good use the next time I do =)

By: April

April — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 13:10:00 +0000

My take on it is that if I am purchasing manure or soil with manure in it, then I am supporting an industry that exploits and abuses and murders animals. It’s a vote with my dollar that these practices are OK. I would say that using chicken shitty straw from your own rescued hens that you need to clean out anyway is fine to compost. If I could compost dog poo I’d be golden:) But, say, using the hen’s egg would be a different story for me. Worms, bees and other pollinators are essential to gardening and I let them do their thing and try my hardest not to disturb them.

By: Heather Poire

Heather Poire — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 11:34:00 +0000

General organically makes a few vganic liquid fertilizers that I love! http://generalhydroponics.com/site/index.php/products/general_organics/biothriv
e/ and you can never go wrong with dr earth!

By: Kessu

Kessu — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 11:26:00 +0000

Well, we don’t use manufactured fertilizer at all but we grow our stuff in Permaculture way :) We use grass, humus and stuff what i don’t know in english.

By: Beth Ⓥ

Beth Ⓥ — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 08:18:00 +0000

This is my third year of veggie gardening in a raised bed. I’ve been pretty successful using Down to Earth’s Vegan Mix fertilizer. I just till it into the soil before I plant my seeds. You can get it on amazon! Next year I would like to try container composting, thanks to your post about it!