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Growing Fruits And Vegetables The Way Nature Intended Them To Be
Gardening can add more quality to the way you live and even to
some extent may also add quantity to one's life. There are many
benefits of gardening, particularly organic gardening that can
make one can forget about whatever is bothering him or her.
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. Organic gardening is less boring.
One can easily make his own compost from garden and kitchen
waste. Though this is a bit more time-consuming than buying
prepared chemical pesticides and fertilizers, it would surely be
one rewarding activity.
2. Less health harming chemicals on the food that you and your
family may consume.
Pesticides contain toxins that have only one purpose kill living
things. One of the best known benefits of organic gardening is
the zero tolerance for pesticide use. This is the most widely
know reason for the boom of organic gardening and is also the
best of what we get from the benefits of organic gardening.
3. Less harm to the environment.
Organic gardening has residual effect on ground water. The
Environmental Protection Agency says that 38 states have cases
of contaminated ground water.
The protection of the topsoil from erosion is another concern
dealt with the
practice of organic gardening.
The Soil Conservation Service says that an estimated 30 - 32
billion tons of soil erodes from United States farmlands every
year. Commercial farming causes this.
4. Cost savings
One does need to buy costly chemical fertilizers and pesticides
with organic gardening. One example of organic fertilizer that
one could make use of is as lowly as the stale coffee and coffee
grounds. If one wishes to attract off aphids from vegetables,
plant marigolds. One frugal garden pest spray could be concocted
through mixing 1 tablespoon of liquid dishwashing soap and 1 cup
of cooking oil. Put 3 tablespoons of this mixture in 1 quart of
water and spray on plants.
Mulch, which is used to keep moisture in and weeds out, could be
in the form of grass clippings and pine needles.
5. Organic gardening makes one feel better knowing he is doing
his part in safeguarding the future of the next generations.
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.
About the author:
You Too can have a green thumb. Visit Georges Blog here
http://www.push-button-online-income.com/gardening
Written by: George Hapgood
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