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Making your life greener - one bite at a time.

Organic gardening is not a new idea, it’s gardening the natural away our grandparents used to garden; gardening with the Environment, not at war with the ecosystem, working with the soil and nature; by recycling and collecting any organic matter you may have around your home and garden, or in your area, that can be utilised into your garden directly, or by composting, or as a liquid fertilizer

If you use any Chemicals or Synthetics

on or around your garden or fruit trees, not only are they toxic they are also expensive, therefore you are wasting your time and money.

It would be cheaper and less work for yourself to buy off the shelf.

Why you should not use artificial fertilisers Many artificially produced fertilisers contain the three elements - Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium and little else. Plants that are fed on only artificial fertilizer grow well, look good, but have very little taste. These plants will produce more nitrites and less vitamin C. Nitrites are known to be carcinogenic to humans and animals. Vitamin C neutralises nitrites in the human body.

Farmers that only grow the same crop over and over, all year round, such as tomatoes, have depleted the soil through lack of crop rotation, eroded the top soil and lost organic matter. They are committed to use artificial fertilisers and chemical sprays. Their environment is dead, 100% artificial. (in the USA tomatoes are up to 70% deficient in vitamin C.

Chemical Sprays

Poisons damage natural predators (spiders, birds, fish, animals), pollute the water ways and the air we breathe, damage human health.

Plants feed through their leaves and roots. One way or another they take up the chemical residues, and you, the consumer are eating these plants and chemicals.

If you use Chemicals and Artificial Fertilisers in your garden there will not be any life in the soil, no earthworms or micro - organisms, which naturally produce nutrients needed to feed your plants. (and do all the turning of the soil needed)

BOOK SUGGESTIONS

Natural Gardening and Farming in Australia
by Jeffrey Hodges 
 
Growing without Digging.
by Esther Dean 
 
Pests, Predators & Pesticides
by Jeanette Conacher 
 

The Magic of Mulch
by Michael Roads 
 
Companion Planting in Australia
by Brenda Little. 
 
Safer Pest Control
by Paul Rogers. 
 
The Bug Book
by Helen & John Philbrick. 
 
Permaculture
by Bill Mollison 
 
Seed Production for Australian Home Vegetable Gardener
by Allen & Christina Barry
 

MAGAZINES 

" Organic Growing " - published by
The Organic Gardening & Farming Society of Tasmania Inc. 
 
 
" Grass Roots " - published by
Night Owl Publishers P.L. 
 
 
" Warm Earth" Organic Gardening
 

There are many good books and publications on organic growing. Your public library will have most of these on their shelves. Avail yourself of them.

(If you think that doing it "on your own" is difficult and you are discouraged join a Organic Gardening Club. They have an excellent library, a non hybrid seed bank, a plant information and advice service, monthly meetings with speakers covering a wide range of topics, field days, a shop which stocks all the basic fertilisers etc. at reduced prices and more.)

http://www.organicdownunder.com/organic_gardening.htm