Herb Gardening

Between global warming and the lack of government regulations concerning our food supply the reactivity of learning about organic vegetable gardening is ever-increasing.

Organic gardening is growing fruits and vegetables using only things found in nature. Eco-gardening is a method of organic gardening that produces additional fruits and vegetables with a lot less work than traditional gardening. With the correct vegetable garden planning and companion planting strategies, today’s gardener can have a prosperous garden in about 8 hours of work per year.

Why would one want to indulge in organic eco-gardening?

1. One can straightforwardly make compost from garden and kitchen waste. Although garden composting is a bit more time-consuming than buying prepared chemical pesticides and fertilizers, it undoubtedly helps to put trash to full use and helps save the surroundings.

2. Organic farming does not use chemicals that may have an adverse affect on your health. When growing vegetables, this is specially significant. 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 could cause such things as cancer, especially in children.

Children ingest four to five times more cancer-causing pesticides than adults do. This can lead to several diseases later on in the child’s existence. Organic gardening can help lower these risks.

The only purpose of pesticides is to kill living things.

3. The environment is safer with organic gardening. Our waterways are polluted with poisons from traditional gardening that use pesticides; killing fish and destroying their habitat.

4. Organic farming practices help prevent the release of topsoil through erosion.

An estimated 30 to 32 billion tons of soil is eroded from United States farmlands every year according to the Soil Conservation Service.

5. Saves money. There is no need to get high prices chemical fertilizers and pesticides when you garden with organic methods. Your kitchen closet has what you need to make an organic pest control. Planting certain types of plants together can help repress insects organically. Like planting marigolds with other vegetables to help repel aphids.

A spray for garden pests can be made by simply mixing 1 tablespoon of liquid dishwashing soap and 1 cup of cooking oil. Place 3 tablespoons of this in one quart of water then spray on any infected plants.

6. A simple mulch of pine needles will help to suppress the maturation of weeds as well as keeping the moisture in.

7. Organic gardening techniques help to keep the environment safe for succeeding generations.