Here are some of the main features of organic growing:

• Organic growing severely restricts the use of artificial chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
• Instead, organic growers rely on developing a healthy, fertile soil and growing a mixture of crops.
• Genetically modified (GM) crops and ingredients are not allowed under organic standards.

Going organic may mean that you have to make a trade-off between glossy, same same supermarket looks with better tasting crops that aren’t perfect in shape or size, but many gardeners think this is a price worth paying. You’ll be able to grow different crops that are always relatively expensive to buy in supermarkets and at farmers markets and, growing your own vegetables is both fun and rewarding.

Among the many things an organic vegetable garden may offer toward a satisfying experience are fresh air, exercise, sunshine, knowledge, supplemental income, mental therapy, and fresh food, rich in vitamins and minerals, harvested at the best stage of maturity.

You can easily make compost from garden and kitchen waste, although this is a bit more time consuming, you will also make cost savings, because you do not need to buy costly chemical fertilizers and pesticides with organic gardening.

Where animal manures are available, they are probably the best source of fertilizer and organic matter for the organic gardener. Use manure which has been aged for at least 30 days if possible, or composted. I am often out in the road if any horses have gone past gathering the manure for the garden. Its looks a bit odd to the teenagers on the street but the dung is worth it!

If you have space for a few pots, or a small space in the garden or even an allotment, it is a wise decision to grow your own organic vegetable garden. To better care for your health, grow your own organic vegetables -and a few pots is all you need at a minimum.
You we also be contributing to the go local food movement which is flourishing – over 15% of people buy organic food locally and this number continues to rise as the number of farmer’s markets, box schemes, cafes and restaurants serving organic food increase. GuideMeGreen helps you to find locally produced foods which are fresher, healthier and more economical. It cuts down on transport costs and food miles where an average shopping basket can include fruit and vegetables transported from all over the world. Even in the UK or USA food is transported from the farm, to the packing centre, then to distribution centre before arriving at the supermarket to be bought which is then transported by car home!

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Organic gardening for beginners should start with native soil if you are lucky. Before you buy a property have the soil analyzed for long-term poisons such as DDT.

Jackie French says that is an insult, not a category. Weeds are mostly good for your garden. As Jackie says, it’s easier to have your organic garden looking like a jungle than looking like a desert, and jungles are more productive than deserts.

In an experiment with potatoes they divided fields into four treatments.

Conventional bare earth heaped up round the plants, weeds allowed to grow, lawn clippings, compost. The composted potatoes were best, but almost as good were those with weeds, followed by those with grass clippings, and last was the bare soil.

The only really bad weeds are grasses that spread with runners and give off chemicals to discourage the growth of other plants. So you have to exterminate Kikuyu grass and couch grass in Australia, but couch grass won’t take over in countries like the UK.

If you only have a couple of square yards infested with kikuyu or couch, water it well and cover it with heavy-duty clear polythene sheeting with the edges held down with bricks and covered with soil to prevent moisture escaping. The sun will cook the soil under the transparent plastic, but leave it there all summer to make sure that you have killed the runners of the grass.

If your proposed sustainable garden is widely infested with runner grasses you should forget about growing anything there the first year. Mow the weeds then cover them with overlapping layers of newspapers three or four sheets deep. Examine the cover every day and every time you see any green showing through, cover it with three sheets of newspaper with all the edges overlapped by a ring of three-sheets deep newspaper.

Even kikuyu needs some light to survive for a year. After six months you should no longer have any green appearing.

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