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Are You Really An Organic Gardener?

Gardeners often claim to be ‘organic’, but if you actually delve into their gardening habits, you may discover that they still use certain pesticides on their lawns, or kill their weeds with the help of herbicides.

To be a real organic gardener, you have to be 100% organic in all of your garden habits. You do not resort to useful and inexpensive fungicides to help tidy up unsightly weeds, or kill off irritating pests. The garden must be left to mature alongside with nature, and control over growth should be manual, and planned in advance, to prevent unwanted plants growing. Unfortunately, You can’t be selectively organic! You can of course be ‘more’ organiic, but don’t brag about it until you avoid all pesticides and fungicides!

One great idea is to start growing your own compost at home, as this is the best way (and easy too) to be certain of the ingredients which make up your fertiliser. Have one compost section for grass cuttings, and all ‘uncooked’ waste. Then invest in a wormbinto compost the cooked waste, which produces great nutrition for your plants.

For many years gardeners felt that nature had to be tamed, in order to allow the desired plants to flourish well. There was no such concept as ‘organic gardening’. While some gardeners may well have worked with nature developing their areas, it was not necessarily the standard practice.

Whether you are limited to organic container gardening, or you just want to grow herbs indoors, try to be mostly organic - you will be rewarded with healthy, chemical-free garden produce.

Don’t waste your money on insecticides, buy new plants instead. I may not know everything about gardening, but I do know what I want, and have a good notion of what constitutes building a thriving ‘organic’ garden. An organic garden is a ‘healthy’ garden, nurtured in a timely fashion, with no unnatural shortcuts allowed!

Colin West is a very experienced gardener. He has been gardening all of his life, and has recently completed a new ebook on how to Grow Herb Garden At Home - which is available as a download.