Small Scale Organic Gardening

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Benefits of Organic Gardening

• Chemical free food + exercise
• Awareness of wider environmental issues
• Practical recycling of materials
• Wildlife conservation
• Reduction of pollution
• Working with nature rather than against it

Cost cutting tips

• always recycle or reuse materials
• use locally available organic matter
• prevention of pests/diseases is cheaper than the cure
• Use mulches green manures, &continuous cropping to conserve soil fertility& moisture
• Save seed
• Encourage wildlife to fight pests for you
• Work with nature & natural cycles
• Strive to improve and pass your knowledge to minimise costly mistakes
• Keep records & learn from past experience

Principles of Organic Gardening

• Working with natural systems to produce a well balanced fertile soil
• Feed soil not the plant build up soil organic matter
• Avoid chemical fertillisers & pestisides
• Maintainence of biodiversity
• Encouragement of natural predators
• Avoidance of genetically modified organisms