If you have been working in the garden then you know pretty much what’s going on and what it takes to make a garden soil fertile, in order to produce a decent amount of vegetables.

Why is organic gardening so important for your health? Here is why.

Most of us were unknowingly programed through the multitude of commercial advertisements to buy fertilizers, weed and pests control products from the garden centers or hardware stores. It’s so easy and convenient to put them in the shopping cart and take them home, and apply them in the garden.

That’s the easy way of doing things in the garden, but they are just not healthy, and this method is more harmful then beneficial to your garden or your family’s health.

In the old days before the development of the chemically based fertilizers, farmers and gardeners were completely dependent on organic means of producing food from their lands, and there were by far less plant fungal diseases and less pests attacking the crops.

What the old timers used was basic waste from the cows, horses, sheep, goats and rabbits. Cow manure, horse manure, chicken droppings, composted leaves and grass clippings, peanuts halls, and many other vegetation that was used to enrich the soils.

The soil was more than able to create on its own the environment for the beneficial micro organisms that was well balanced to provide the proper nutrients as well as the protection against the pests and weeds.

The plants were healthier and more robust to withstand any attack from parasites and from the elements of nature.

The intervention of the humans in labs and other research facilities with the Genetically Modified Organisms creating tons of hybrid plants, weakened the defense systems of the plants, and besides the fact that they cannot reproduce again, made them so much more vulnerable to all kinds of diseases and pests proliferation.

This created the need of making even more new chemically produced pest control materials, another avenue of injecting poisons in the plant life and in the environment as a whole. And so are the chemically based fertilizers.

It’s all about the greed for money. The mega-corporations that are producing all these fertilizers, fungus  and pest control materials, on such global scales, has managed to practically destroy and poison the lands, depriving them of the natural and most beneficial way of sustaining and producing life giving energy that the plants provide.

No wonder there are so many diseases in humans like, cancers, diabetes, heart disease, obesity and many other ailments that affect the human body.

So, what is the alternative and what is the solution? Back to the basics, back to the organic gardening! This is not as easy as you might think, because it takes time, patience and perseverance. But it’s worth every effort and every bit of it.

For those of us who are passionate about gardening, it’s easy and pleasurable when you think of all the benefits that an organic gardening could provide. Just imagine all those vibrant life energy giving fruits and veggies growing in an healthy environment, that you grow yourself.

It’s worth the effort, and so much better for your health. Why would you continue to inflict harm to your own body by eating produce that might contain harmful chemicals, when there is a better and safer way of eating organically grown fruits and vegetables.

As a first step, a good start would be to have a compost pile of leaves that you rake from your yard, in a corner of your garden, that will rot and make a fine material to spread in your garden for the next season crop of healthy veggies, from your future organic garden.

It is never too late to start, and if you are serious about organic gardening, you should consider a little red earth worms bin, that will create one of the most fertile material for your organically grown fruits and vegetables.

The red worms castings are extremely rich in the most essential elements a good garden soil needs. You can never go wrong with this.

That’s why organic gardening is so important for your health, and your family’s health, by eating fresh life energy giving fruits, berries and vegetables from your organic garden.

Now would be a good time to start planing, for preparing the seeds for indoors propagation, so you’ll have an early start next growing season. Turn the soil in the garden with a spade or a tiller, to expose it to the rest of the winter’s elements for a better crop.

Borlovans Nursery is very much dedicated to organic gardening, thus providing all the information we can to help the gardeners to achieve the best results possible in organic gardening.

I trust that this article is helping you to see why is organic gardening so important for your health, when you use some common sense to implement the basics of an organic garden.

Happy organic gardening,

Mike Borlovan