Enjoy the bounty
of your Organic Gardening at your dinner tableOrganic cooking is not complicated once you know a few basics. In fact, it's way easier (and in most cases healthier!) than trying to cook by some crazy fad diet guidelines!
Six Tips For Organic Gardening
Organic gardening is the way of growing vegetables and fruits with the use of
things only found in nature.
Why would one want to indulge in organic gardening?
1.One can easily make compost from garden and kitchen waste. Though this is a
bit more time-consuming than buying prepared chemical pesticides and
fertilizers, it certainly helps to put garbage to good use and so saves the
environment.
2. Organic farming does not use chemicals that may have an adverse affect on
your health. This is especially important when growing vegetables. Chemical
companies tell us that the chemicals we use are safe if used according to
direction, but research shows that even tiny amounts of poisons absorbed through
the skin can cause such things as cancer, especially in children.
On the average, a child ingests four to five times more cancer-causing
pesticides from foods than an adult. This can lead to various diseases later on
in the child's life. With organic gardening, these incidents are lessened.
Remember, pesticides contain toxins that have only one purpose - to kill living
things.
3. Less harm to the environment. Poisons are often washed into our waterways,
causing death to the native fish and polluting their habitat.
4.Organic farming practices help prevent the loss of topsoil through erosion.
The Soil Conservation Service says that an estimated 30 - 32 billion tons of
soil erodes from United States farmlands every year.
4. Cost savings. One does not need to buy costly chemical fertilizers and
pesticides with organic gardening. Many organic recipes for the control of pest
and disease come straight from the kitchen cupboard. Sometimes other plants can
be grown as companions to the main crop. An example of this is the marigold,
which helps to repel aphids from vegetables.
Mixing 1 tablespoon of liquid dishwashing soap and 1 cup of cooking oil can make
a cheap garden pest spray. Put 3 tablespoons of this mixture in 1 quart of water
and spray on plants.
5.A simple mulch of pine needles will help to suppress the growth of weeds as
well as keeping the moisture in.
6.
Organic Gardening
practices help to keep the environment safe for future
generations.
Enjoy the bounty
of your Organic Gardening at your dinner table
Organic cooking is not complicated once you know a few basics. In fact, it's
way easier (and in most cases healthier!) than trying to cook by some crazy fad
diet guidelines!