Organic Gardening

 

Organic gardening / horticulture basically involves using environment-friendly organic methods for cultivation of fruits, vegetables, flowering and ornamental plants etc in your garden. Organic gardening emphasizes on the usage of totally natural products and discourages the usage of synthetic products for soil-enrichment, pest control and other gardening activities. It also stresses on lessening dependence on power gardening tools.

 

Most organic gardening principles are based upon practical conclusions drawn by practicing farmers and gardening experts over a period of thousands of years. Organic gardening is credited to be more holistic in its approach as it involves the use of all kinds of things nature provides and allowing everything to survive and thrive while also ensuring that the plants are not affected.

 

Most people put all their faith in chemicals are not prepared to experiment. However, practitioners of organic gardening techniques stress that while the use of chemicals may improve plant growth for a small period of time, it can only cause losses over an extended period. Some draw a parallel between the fast-food or junk-food culture and the use of chemicals in gardening. While fast-food might satisfy your hunger and taste-buds for some time and do not involve too much preparation time, they can be counter-beneficial to your health over a period of time. Organic gardeners and farmers claim the same about the use of chemicals in farming or gardening. Adding chemicals is helpful in giving a quick boost to your yields, but will cause irreparable damage to the soil over time.

 

If you are planning on going organic in your garden and giving organic gardening a shot, you must be a really patient person. You must first realize that organic gardening will take time to pay-off. Unlike chemicals, organic materials will take time to blend with the soil and produce bountiful returns. It is important to have faith in what you are doing in order to be successful in organic gardening.

 

However, for people who are really enthusiastic about holistic living in communion with nature, organic gardening can be very fulfilling. In organic gardening, pest control takes a whole new meaning. Organic gardeners believe that some pests are even good for plant growth and don't advocate indiscriminate use of pest-control methods. The whole idea is that the organic garden, the gardener, the plants, the pests, the birds, the worms and every other form of life in a garden is one whole unit and act gardening is only to manage all these life forms so that they co-exist peacefully.

 

If the above idea appeals to you, you must give organic gardening a try. You could start off with making a compost pit. Fill it up with your daily organic wastes such as leftover food, grass cuttings, banana peels etc. and use the formed compost in place of the fertilizers. You could then slowly start learning how to identify what plants to plant where and and when and become a full-fledged expert organic gardener in your own right. So, take the first step. Make a compost pit today!

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