Gardening in the 21st Century: the Organic Way

During the past ten years, a significant number of men and women from different parts of the world have taken up gardening. In this sense, these people found themselves interested both in creating magnificent flower gardens, as well as in cultivating thriving vegetable gardens.

The majority of gardeners still rely on what might be considered "mainstream methods" when it comes to the care and maintenance or their flower or vegetable gardens. In other words, these gardeners tend to rely on a variety of commercially availabable chemical treatment and care products for their gardens. Various types of garden related to chemicals - from pesticides to fertilizers - are readily available at garden supply stores and discount retailers. More often than not, these basic products can be obtained for a fairly reasonable price.

As people become more involved in the care and maintenance of his or her garden, as an individual tends to become more aware and conscious of how much material he or she used to tend the garden area actually impacts on the environment and the plants are grown (particularly vegetables). Consequently, many experienced gardeners (and, in fact, a growing number of novices) have turned to organic gardening practices.

Organic gardening practices actually have been around and used by humans since the ancient tribes gave up hunting and gathering and settled down to grow their own crops and maintain their domestic animals. In its most basic form, organic gardening practices consists of the use of natural materials (organic material) in the care and treatment of a garden patch - vegetable or flower. No man or chemicals of any kind are used in a real organic gardening regime.

For example, when it comes to providing nutrients for the organic garden, two resources are usually relied on: compost and manure. Likewise, when it comes to the issue of pest control, natural steps are taken to rid a garden offensive bugs and insects. In this regard, benign insects that do not harm plants, but who prey on the mistakes that harm foilage are located in the garden or a patch to deal with harmful pest problem or situation.

In the final analysis, people who advocate organic gardening practices and techniques that claim to be a target or as a natural program is to foster and protect the soil well into the future, but to provide a quick, seasonal planting fix for one period. Through organic gardening, soil and water is reduced significantly. Besides, when it comes to vegetable production, food generated from the organic garden without harmful chemicals, is considered to be far healthier for human consumption.