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Organic Gardening
By Gerardas Norkus, Fri Dec 9th
Because of an alarming condition of our atmosphere these daysand the impact of technological innovations have on our health,everything seems to be resorting to a more viable option -organics. From foods to even hobbies like gardening, organicshad definitely taken the limelight. Nowadays, one of the gradually emerging lucrative activity forhobbyist, and environmentalist for that matter, is organicgardening. It slowly replaces the traditional type of gardeningthat involves harmful chemicals that speed up the destruction ofour Ozone layer. Organic gardening, basically, refers to one type of gardeningthat deviates from the customary use of chemicals likefertilizers and pesticides. Because of these, manyagriculturists contend that engaging into organics gardeningmakes one in synchrony with nature.
The basic notion of organics gardening boils down to the factthat it is best to feed the soil and not the plant. Thus, we canhypothetically say that, in organic gardening, it is the soilthat needs more nourishment than the plants, or simply becauseit's from the soil that the plants obtain their nourishment. Ahealthy soil yields a healthy plant, so to speak. In organic gardening, the basic concept of "fertilizing" thesoil is to use organic materials like composts and manures. Whenfertilizing the soil, it doesn't necessarily mean that you usefertilizers. In fact, fertilizers were primarily denoted asanything that increases the soil's fertility. Hence, organic gardening is a way of going back to the basics,the traditional use of basic fertilizers that increases thesoil's capability to enrich the plant. In this manner, thegrower uses minerals like calcium coming from the fossils ofdead animals, nitrogen from legumes or manures, phosphorus frombones of dead animals, and potassium from wood ashes. On the other hand, organic growers also consider composts of other living things like vegetables or plants whenincorporating the idea of organic gardening. Its by-product isknown as the humus, which is definitely good for the soil. Inorganic gardening, humus is an important
element in plantproduction because it contains cellulose that performs like asponge and retains moisture in the soil so that it will be madeavailable for the plants as they grow. Moreover, organic gardening incorporates the traditional way ofcontrolling animal pests like physical removal of insects, croprotation, interplanting, and introduction of prey species. Thesemethods lessen the growth of insects and curb the multiplicationof pests. It also impedes the development of diseases that wereemphasized by "agribusiness monocropping". In addition, organic gardening employs the typical suppressionof weeds and vegetables pests without having to opt forherbicides. In this organic gardening method of removing weeds,"mulches" are placed on the weeds to prevent them from obtainingthe amount of light they need in order to grow. These mulchesact as barriers for weeds and vegetable pests. They come indifferent forms like leaves, stones, wood, or straw. In general, the technique of organic gardening lies on twoagricultural concept: permaculture and biodynamic agriculture. Permaculture or permanent culture refers to that area inagriculture wherein certain ecological principle, "sharedethics" like earth care and people care, and design tools areused so as to gain sustainable development in plants. On theother hand, biodynamics agriculture is composed of a biologicalat the same time sustainable system of agricultural assembly. With these two concepts, we can safely derive the fundamentalidea of organic gardening as a system based on environmental,sustainable, and ethical principles of man. So, we now know for a fact that organic gardening is definitelya lot better than what science and technology teaches us thesedays. The only drawback is that it is science that taught us the basicways on how to care for the environment in the first place, andyet, it is also the same mentor who is teaching us how to employconcepts that eventually leads to nature's destruction. Isn't itironic? About the author:Subscribe to "Gardening Secrets Unearthed" 7-part e-mailcourse from http://GardeningSecretsAndTips.com! Discover thekeys to having a garden a professional landscaper would envy.
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