Organic Gardening Is Cool
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Gardening can add more quality to the way you live, and might
even add quantity to your life. There are many benefits of
gardening, particularly organic gardening. It's so much fun you
may even forget what's bothering you.
Organic gardening is growing vegetables and fruits using
whatever nature provides.
Organic gardening is cool.
1. It's not as boring.
You can easily make his own compost from garden and kitchen
waste. Though composting takes a little longer than buying
prepared chemical pesticides and fertilizers, it's surely less
expensive and more rewarding.
2. Fewer chemicals on the food you and your family consume.
Pesticides contain toxins that have only one purpose -- to kill
living things. One of the best known benefits of organic
gardening is the zero tolerance
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for pesticide use, also the
biggest reason for the boom of organic gardening.
3. Less harm to the environment.
Organic gardening has a beneficial effect on ground water. The
Environmental Protection Agency says 38 states have multiple
cases of contaminated ground water.
Organic gardening helps fight topsoil erosion. The Soil
Conservation Service says commercial farming causes an estimated
30-32 billion tons of soil erosion from U.S. farmlands every
year.
4. Saving money.
You don't need to buy costly chemical fertilizers and
pesticides. Organic gardeners continually come up with great
ideas, like fertilizing with stale coffee or used coffee
grounds. And planting marigolds nearby to draw aphids away from
vegetables.
Make a quart of garden pest spray with water and
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three
tablespoons of a simple mixture of one 1 tablespoon of liquid
dishwashing soap and 1 cup of cooking oil.
Mulch, used to keep moisture in and weeds out, can be created
from grass clippings and pine needles.
5. Organic gardening feels good. You know you're helping
safeguard future generations.
On the average, a child ingests four to five times more
cancer-causing pesticides from foods than an adult, which can
lead to numerous diseases later in life. The organic gardener is
helping give today's children a healthier tomorrow.
Who wouldn't want that?
Go ahead. Search for "organic gardening" and learn more right
now. By spring you'll be raring to go organic.
About the author:
Joe Hickman, a veteran journalist, is editor at HaLife.com.
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