Grow your own vegetables is fun and rewarding. All you really need to get started is some decent 'land and some plants. But to be truly successful gardener, and to do it organically, you need to understand what it takes to keep the plants healthy and vigorous. Here are the basics.
"Feeding the soil" is a mantra for organic gardeners, and rightly so. In conventional chemical farming, crops are actually "feed" directly the use of synthetic fertilizers.
When taken to extremes, such as a chemical force-feeding can be gradually depletes the soil. And turn it into a rich complex full of insects and other micro life forms, growing in an inert medium, which exists mainly in the roots of the plants yet, and that offers little or nothing about their own nutrition.
Although the various manures and mineral nutrients (agricultural lime, phosphate, green sand, etc.) should be added periodically to organic gardening, by far the most useful materials for the construction and maintenance of a healthy, balanced soil is organic matter. You can add organic matter to your soil in many different ways, such as compost, shredded leaves, manure or cover crops.
Organic matter improves the fertility, structure and furnishings of all types of soils. In particular, organic matter provides a continuous source of nitrogen and other nutrients that plants need to grow. It also provides a rich food source for soil microbes. Like the organisms in the soil to complete the process of degradation and decay, are these nutrients to plants. For more information on this topic, read building healthy soil.
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