| Organic fruits and vegetables are higher in vitamins | | | | to grow. Although these chemicals produce more |
| and minerals than conventional farm produced foods, | | | | edible product, the product is not as healthy as the |
| because the soil is healthy and has more diverse and | | | | produce from naturally fertilized plants. Chemical |
| healthy living organisms and trace minerals. | | | | additives are a source of environmental waste. They |
| There are some important pieces to the organic | | | | also leave chemical residues in your food, and these |
| gardening puzzle, but at the heart of all organic | | | | "toxins" tend to build up in your body leading to |
| growing is the need for healthy soil, which comes | | | | undesirable health problems. Adding these unnatural |
| from fertilizing organically. The organic gardener must | | | | chemicals to your garden over and over will impair |
| understand the soil of his garden in order to sustain a | | | | your vegetables and keep them from receiving the |
| healthy garden. ("Be one with the dirt." "Be the Dirt!") | | | | healthy nutrients they need to protect themselves |
| When our body lacks essential nutrients, we will not | | | | from insect attacks and resist plant disease. |
| feel strong or well, and we will possibly get sick. The | | | | Healthy soil nurtures healthy plants which grow |
| same is true of plants when they are deprived of the | | | | better, taste better, store longer and have increased |
| proper nutrition. A plant gains it's strength and | | | | resistance to the stresses caused by heat, cold, |
| nutritional edge from the soil in which it is fed. When | | | | drought, pests, diseases, rapid growth, etc. Fertile soil |
| your plants don't get the proper nutrition from the | | | | is not only the first step for increasing yields and |
| soil, you, the gardener, will not get nutritious food | | | | quality but also for natural pest control and season |
| from your garden. | | | | extending. |
| Building a nutrient rich organic soil is best done by | | | | There is so much to know about organic gardening. It |
| amending the soil organically and naturally. Organic | | | | is worth the time and effort to find out how to |
| gardeners do not rely on chemicals as the commercial | | | | create a healthy environment for your organic |
| farmers do. Commercial growers usually depend upon | | | | garden. |
| chemical additives to give the plants what they need | | | | |