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Organic Gardening Tips

Courtesy Renaude Hatsedakis

These organic gardening tips will help you grow fruits and vegetables with the use of things found only in nature. Organic farming does not use chemicals that may have an adverse affect on your health. This is especially important when growing vegetables for your family.

Here are some helpful tips to help if you want to indulge in organic gardening.

You 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 also save the environment.

Let’s not forget that pesticides contain toxins that have only one purpose, that is to kill living things. Besides, these toxins are often washed into our waterways, causing death to the native fish and polluting their habitat.

Chemical companies tell us that the chemicals are safe if used according to direction; but research has shown that even tiny amounts of poison absorbed through the skin can cause such things as cancer, especially in children. If we keep things in proportion, 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 health problems are greatly lessened.

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. Let’s do our part in preventing this loss.

There is no need to spend your hard-earned money to buy costly chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Here are a few helpful tips:

==> Your own kitchen cupboard will give you many organic recipes to control pests and disease in your garden.

==> Research how plants can be grown as companions to your main crop. An example of this is the marigold, which helps to repel aphids from vegetables.

==> Mix 1 tablespoon of liquid dishwashing soap and 1 cup of cooking oil to make a cheap garden pest spray. Put 3 tablespoons of this mixture in 1 quart of water and spray on your plants.

==> A simple mulch of pine needles will help to suppress the growth of weeds as well as keeping the moisture in.

Keep practicing organic gardening to keep the environment safe for future generations.

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