Organic gardening,

A place of discovery,

Adventure and experiment,

Amazing abundance,

Peace and gratification.

"Organic" as it relates to gardening, is a return to the original way of our ancestors -- pure and simple. In addition, we benefit from added centuries of knowledge, understanding, and scientific study.

In conversation with a friend, I asked, "Are you an organic gardener?"

She said, "I don’t know what you call me, but I just don’t use chemicals and man-made stuff.”

Labels and rules aren't as important as the attitude and philosophy toward our earth and our life. It’s about creating balance. In a forest, pests and diseases exist, but there are natural enemies of the plant-destroying insects and diseases. Because there is a balance, plants remain healthy. Healthy plants resist disease.

An important question remains, "What encourages the most health and life? Or, say it another way, “What sustains life longest with the most quality?"

It Is Not About the Biggest or the 'Mostest'

It Is About the Quality

When quality holds the place of greatest importance, superior vegetables with higher nutrition and better taste result. In addition, as a bonus, your plants are more likely to produce abundantly. Your body is better nourished and satisfied more completely.

For instance, we think of potatoes as mostly starch. The right variety grown properly, contain higher protein than rice or grains and all the vitamin C your body needs.

A plant needs more than just nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium supplied by commercial fertilizers. They need minerals and room for their roots to grow.

The best way to give them all they need is with living, organic compost and cover crops or green manure turned into the soil. These are just a few of the life-providing tools of an organic gardener.

An Added Dimension

As you plan your garden layout, combine the beauty of flowers and herbs with the vegetables. There is no need to separate the two.

Interspersing marigolds and basil among your vegetables foils the plots of the destructive insects.

In the southwest, adding sunflowers for shade for cucumbers extends their production.

In this balance of beauty with food, your soul receives nourishment along with your body. Your garden becomes a sanctuary, a place of worship and thanksgiving.

Life began in a garden and by God's grace a garden sustains it.

Balance

Live connected and in co-operation with nature. The enzymes that give us health are the same enzymes that cause a vegetable to decay, return its seeds to the earth, and live again.

In God’s economy there is incredible extravagance. Our thoughts of production are puny compared with nature’s. Creation sings with abundance to the point of waste.

If every seed from a single tomato grew to maturity, we could supply hundreds—even thousands of people with tomatoes for the season.

I’ve been less than careful with my tomatoes sometimes. The next season I’ve had enough volunteers to fill my garden! Watermelons, too!

A Journey of Discovery

Discover and re-discover. Explore the treasures of:

• Heirloom seeds
• Enduring native plants
• Easy to grow open pollinated seed
• Growing herbs for taste and touch
• Container and raised bed gardening
• Old roses for fragrance and garnishes
• Building soil rich and perfect for healthy root systems

Discover natural solutions for fighting pests and disease.

Better yet, prevent disease from ever occurring. Make your plants unappealing to nasty life-sucking and disease spreading insects.

An ever increasing awe fills me as I watch tiny sprouts unfurl their leaves and grow into nourishing vegetables or beautiful flowers from a tiny seed. It is one tiny facet of Gods plan—life from death and back again to life--the way of organic gardening.

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