Organic gardening was, for the last few decades, thought of as being a trendy fad which was the kind of thing that people opting for alternative lifestyles did in communes. With a growing awareness of the dangers of chemical fertilizers and pesticides and the effect they have on the human body, this perception has undergone a rapid change over the last few years. What this means is that we are now returning to times past when garden bloomed without the help of any artificial materials to promote their rapid growth, protect them from insects and, in the process, pollute them. Prior to that time the only materials a gardener had to help him in his efforts to grow and maintain a garden where those that were available to him from nature.
To be able to truly understand what organic gardening is, we need to be able to appreciate the way the word is used today. Organic as used today, means applying modern science to find new ways for using natural materials and elements to protect plant growth and enhance the health and productivity of the crop. This means appreciating a philosophy that allows for modern science to be used to adapt natural ingredients so that they are easy to procure and use while at the same time not changing in any way the many benefits they offer both e crops and the soil they are grown in.
Today we are once again beginning to appreciate that removing seemingly unpleasant things like manure and insects from our gardens so that they chemical fertilizer replaces the manure and dangerous chemicals are used to kill off the often beneficial insects is not just counter productive but also dangerous. There are two specific aspects to organic gardening and they both must work in tandem to be successful. The use of chemical pesticides does not just kill of insects, many of which help the garden grown, but introduces the chemicals into our food supply to the detriment of our health. And then there is the matter of using organic materials to protect the plant from natural predators and disease without in any way adding anything artificial to these plants.
The resistance to organic garden comes from those who have, over the years, been lead by artificially support to expect unnatural results from their gardens. The first and foremost of these, especially in the case of fruit and vegetable gardens is that although the produce is healthier and tastes better since they contains no artificial chemicals, the appearance of the garden produce may not be as cosmetically perfect as those produced with the use of chemicals. The other problem is that with artificial chemical we are able to produce much faster plant growth and yield which is unnatural since those who know about organic gardening know that all this does is deplete the soil for future use, leading to more chemical fertilizers being used.
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