Organic Diet And Gardening Eliminates Problems

By Author: Christopher Sawyer
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We all desire the benefits of an organic diets, and there is good news about the gardening methods needed to produce organic food. Conventional means of gardening is more exhausting than organic gardening. Time is spent finding the perfect schedule for when to plant, feed, and weed. There is also the problem of seasonality, allowing beds to rest during the course of the cooler months and not produce anything at all. Additional instructions include the use of inorganic fertilizers to help soil balance. Dedication and a lot of patience is required to overcome the challenges of traditional vegetable gardening. But does it really need to be that difficult? Can a forest control its growing environment? Can its soil be adjusted daily or weekly? Does a gardening maintain a rigid schedule of applying toxins? Heaven forbid! Methods that are conventional target problems only. Have you noticed that gardening books are full of ways to solve problems? I used to be a subscriber to these ideas too but I noticed that resolving each problem uncovered new ones. Let's take a look at a common traditional gardening practice and I will show you ...
... how a single problem can escalate into a whole host of problems. Consider this scene, a traditional row garden with a variety of vegetables planted. Empty spaces abound between each plant. While the traditional gardener doesn't think anything of this, an ecologist knows that something needs to occupy that space. Nature doesn't like empty spaces and colonizes the garden with weeds. Very often these weeds are too numerous to pick out one by one so a hoe is used to beat them into the ground. Most books about gardening recommend the use of a hoe. So the message we are getting is that using a hoe is the solution to a problem. Unfortunately, using a hoe actually results in more problems. Firstly, many additional weed seeds are created by the soil agitation which gets the weed seeds moving. Secondly, the soil turning disrupts the ecology of the soil since it often moves top level dry soil down in place of the low level, nutrient-dense soil. Eventually the soil widens and due to its lack of structure, water retention is reduced and more watering is necessary to maintain healthy vegetation. The added downside is that nutrients can't transfer as easily to plants through structure-less soil. To boost nutrient levels the vegetables will want the aid of fertilizers. Many fertilizers kill the soil biology which is very important in building soil structure and plant nutrient availability. The soil can eventually become completely dead and without the ability to grow nutrient-rich food. The foods will actually lack vitamins and minerals. This issue is witnessed in today's agriculture. Dr. Tim Lobstein, Director of the Food Commission said, "Today's agriculture does not allow the soil to enrich itself, but depends on chemical fertilizers that don't replace the wide variety of nutrients plants and humans need. In the past 60 years a major decline in the nutritional value of foods has been witnessed. See now why the correct treatment of a gardening problem is so important? Traditional gardening techniques only ever strive to fix the symptom and not the cause. Nevertheless, a solution exists! We must adopt a technique that addresses the source of these problems and mixes pest, plant, and soil ecology with proper crop management. This technique must be efficient enough to be economically viable and able to produce enough food per given area. The approach I recommend is ecologically-based, free from tilling and chemicals, and lowers the time required for weeding and physical labor when compared to conventional vegetable gardening. Additionally, the number of harvests is greater and the volume of produce higher. The garden acts the way nature intended and forms a natural ecosystem. Succession layering of plants just as we see in natural ecosystems offers natural pest control management, eliminates the need for crop rotation, resting beds, or manure crops. Soil management is addressed in a natural way and the result is soil structure and fertility that get richer year after year. One other advantage to this technique is automatic regeneration by way of self-seeding. This occurs naturally as dormant seeds germinate, filling empty spaces with desirable crops and not weeds. Getting gardeners to try a new method is the greatest challenge this fabulous technique faces. Nevertheless, I have no doubt that this is the best way we will grow meals in the future, so overcome the fear of change and get started today. Learn more about healthy eating today. Find organic diet resources at organicdietsite.net.