Organic Gardening

 Organic Gardening comes under the term Organic Horticulture. Organic Horticulture or better said Organic Gardening is the science and art of growing fruits, vegetables, Learn how to eat well, flowers, or ornamental plants by following the essential principles of organic agriculture. Raise plants from seeds in your own greenhouse. Soil building and conservation, pest  management, and heritage-species preservation are key to organic gardening.

Organic Gardening relies on mulches, cover crops, compost , manures, and ground-rock mineral supplements for soil-building. Through care and good soil conditioning, It is proven that organic gardening provides for control of insects, fungal,or other problems that sometimes plague plants. However, pheromone traps, insecticide soap sprays, and other pest-control methods available to organic farmers and organic gardeners are also sometimes utilized.

Organic gardening is based on knowledge and techniques gathered over thousands of years. In general terms, organic gardening involves natural processes. This often taking place over an extended period of time. Avoiding the use of chemical based products will produce better crops.

Organic gardening relies heavily on the natural breakdown of organic matter, using techniques like green manure and compost, to replace nutrients taken from the soil by previous crops. This biological process, driven by microorganism, allows the natural production of nutrients in the soil throughout the growing season. This process  is often described as "feeding the soil to feed the plant."  In chemical horticulture, individual nutrients, like nitrogen, are synthesized in a more or less pure form that plants can use immediately, and applied on a man-made schedule. Each nutrient is defined and addressed separately.

The majority of organic gardeners make their own compost. This is a basic soil amendments  in the organic approach to gardening. In addition certain other amendments, such as rock powders providing phosphorus, potassium, calcium, and other minerals are used, and  have been on the market since the 1960s. These amendments are available in most areas. To be more specific, organic gardeners do us home made compost and other derived amendments, such as fish waste emulsion or seaweed emulsion that can be mixed and sprinkled on plants and soil as a booster.

The central organic gardening activity of fertilization illustrates the differences from chemical oriented gardening or farming. Organic gardening relies heavily on the natural breakdown of organic matter, using techniques like green manure,  the application of rotted animal manures and compost, to replace nutrients taken from the soil by previous crops.  These items (plus insecticidal soap, bagged rotted manure, fish emulsion, etc.) have been increasingly available through retail outlets since the 1970s. Parallel with this fact is that organic horticulture literature, and recognition of the organic approach and methods in the standard horticulture and gardening literature, has also increased immensely during this period.