Advantages of organic gardening
Organic gardening is the way of growing vegetables and fruits with the use of things only found in nature.
What are the advantages of organic gardening?
1. Recycling garden and kitchen waste and making into organic compost. 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 so saves the environment.
2. Organic gardening is totally safe and does not use chemicals that may have an adverse affect on your health. This is especially important when growing vegetables. Chemical companies inform us that the chemicals we use are safe if used according to direction, but research shows that it only takes tiny amounts of poisons to be absorbed through the skin to cause cancer, especially in children.
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 considerably lessened.
Remember, pesticides contain toxins that have only one purpose - to kill living things.
3. Organic gardening does less harm to the environment. Poisons are often washed from the ground into our waterways, causing death to the native fish and polluting their habitat and in some case our drinking water.
4. Organic gardening practices help prevent the loss of topsoil by preventing erosion.
The Soil Conservation Service says that an estimated 30 - 32 billion tons of soil erodes from
4. Organic gardening is cost effective. There is no need to buy costly chemical fertilizers and pesticides with organic gardening. Many organic recipes for the control of pest and disease come straight from the kitchen cupboard. Sometimes other plants can be grown as companions to the main crop. An example of this is the marigold, which helps to repel aphids from vegetables.
5. Organic gardening practices are environmentally safe, and help keep the earth safe for future generations.
