Grow Your Own Organic Vegetable Garden

During the last decades there has been a change towards mechanization and homogenization of farming, which uses pesticides, additives, herbicides, synthetic fertilizers and mass-production techniques. All this is clearly affecting mankind's health, and new diseases are spreading rapidly amongst humans and animals (bird's flu being the most recent one).

The World Health Organization produces reports to show how the use of chemicals and other products on food, coupled with the manufacturing processes involved, are actually a threat for our health.

If you have space for a few pots or even a small piece of land, it is a wise decision to grow your own organic vegetable garden. Here are seven reasons for doing this:

1. You will have no additives in your vegetables. Research by organic food associations has shown that additives in our food can cause heart diseases, osteoporosis, migraines and hyperactivity.

2. There will be no pesticides or synthetic fertilizers used. These chemical products are applied to obtain crops all the time regardless plagues or weather conditions, and affect the quality of the vegetables. Besides, pesticides are usually poisonous to humans.
 3. Your vegetables will not be genetically modified (GM). Antibiotics, drugs and hormones are used on vegetables to grow more and larger ones. One of the consequences of this practice are vegetables which look all the same and are usually tasteless. Besides, we end up consuming the hormones that have been used on the vegetables, with the potential risks for our health.

4. Eating your own organic vegetables will be much more healthy for you. They will not contain any of the products or chemicals named above, and they will be much more natural than any ones you would find at the supermarket. Your health will not be at risk because you will then know that nothing has been added to your vegetables.

 5. Your own organic vegetables will be much more tasty. The use of pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, hormones and antibiotics make vegetables grow unnaturally and take the taste away from them. With organic vegetables, your cooking will be enhanced as their flavour will show fully.

 6. Organic farming is friendly to the environment. Because you won't use pesticides or other equally harming products on your vegetables, you will not damage the soil or the air with the chemical components.

7. When you grow your own organic vegetables you are contributing to your own self-sustainability and the sustainability of the planet. Small communities have been founded where members exchange products that they grow naturally, thus contributing to create a friendly and better place for us all.

In the end, eating organic products only means that we do not add anything else to them than they would naturally have. As you can guess, additives, fertilizers, pesticides or hormones are not components of naturally grown food. To better care for your health, grown your own organic vegetables and a few pots is all you need.

I have a 10x20 area in my back yard that I have planted this year. I live in the city, so I have a small back yard. I started by growing some tomatos in pots. We enjoyed them so much that we went ahead and dug up some of our small backyard for the vegetable garden. I put a nice looking green fence arround it to keep our dogs out and it doesn't look as bad as I thought it would. After our growing season is over the grass grows right back in. I am tempted to dig up my entire back yard next time.

Here is a great resource to learn how to grow your own organic garden. I grow my own Veggies in the back yard. Its fun and saves money. Best of all its good for your health.

FOOD LACKS VITAMINS!! It's everywhere. Articles and authorities are telling us that eating our vegetables isn't good enough anymore. Our soil has been depleted so we no longer can depend on vitamins in our food.   

"You can't get away without a multiple vitamin and mineral supplement. The ground is so depleted that not even the bugs can live in our refined wheat and white flour anymore!" ~Dr. Hanley, MD  

Do we have to depend on multi-vitamins to put the minerals back into our bodies? Where can we get the nutrients we need? Not surprisingly, from the soil.  

How can we control the vitamins and nutrients in our soil? Most fertilizers contain nitrogen, phosphate, and potassium - NPKs. Our bodies need a little more than that to function proficiently.    

Read your high school anatomy book. There are 11 essential minerals: calcium, copper, iodine, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, selenium, sodium and zinc. Amazing! Our fertilizer is only putting two of those essential minerals back into the soil. It's time we take control of our soil content.  

Whether you decide to supplement your ground or grow plants in a greenhouse it is necessary to do more than just fertilize. One easy way to return nutrients to the soil is composting. Remember to include egg shells and vegetable peelings, do not include meat. Although paper is permitted in a compost pile, don't include plastics, Styrofoam or other household wastes. The compost needs to be turned regularly to hasten decomposition. 

After the compost is decomposed it can be mixed with dirt or soil to make a very healthy environment for your fruits and vegetables. Manure is a great fertilizer, however, it does not necessarily provide all the nutrients you need in your soil. Don't let that discourage you from adding it to your compost.    

The following is compost recipe from the National Home Gardening Club. (The New American Kitchen Garden, page 39, 1997.) 

  ". . .four or five parts of dry garden waste (shredded corn stalks, leaves, hay, straw, shrub trimmings, etc.-the smaller the pieces, the better for rapid decomposition) with one or two parts green waste (grass clippings, pea vines, etc.) in a pile at least three feet on a side and three feet tall.  Sprinkle on a shovelful or two of soil or compost and apply water to the pile until it is moist but not soggy."  

Till the ground six to eight inches then work the same amount of compost into the soil. After tilling the soil rake the area smooth and plant your plants.  Be sure to keep your plants well watered for the first few weeks after planting.   

Don't ignore your soil. You will need to add compost throughout the year to keep the soil fertilized. Two to four bushels of compost per year per hundred square feet is a decent rule of thumb.
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