Seven Ticks For Organic Gardening
By Nicky Pilkington, Tue Jan 10th
Organic gardening is the way of growing vegetables and fruitswith the use of things only found in nature.
Why would one want to indulge in organic gardening?
1. One can easily make compost from garden and kitchen waste.Though this is a bit more time-consuming than buying preparedchemical pesticides and fertilizers, it certainly helps to putgarbage to good use and so saves the environment.
2. Organic farming does not use chemicals that may have anadverse affect on your health. This is especially important whengrowing vegetables. Chemical companies tell us that thechemicals we use are safe if used according to direction, butresearch shows that even tiny amounts of poisons absorbedthrough the skin can cause such things as cancer, especially inchildren.
On the average, a child ingests four to five times morecancer-causing pesticides from foods than an adult. This canlead to various diseases later on in the child's life. Withorganic gardening, these incidents are lessened.
Remember, pesticides contain toxins that have only one purpose -to kill living things.
3. Less harm to the environment. Poisons are often washed intoour waterways, causing death to the native fish and pollutingtheir habitat.
4. Organic farming practices help prevent the loss of topsoilthrough erosion.
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