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Many generations have been enjoying and getting practical benefits from gardening. Gardening started as an organic process, but as the decades passed by and technology set in, chemicals and machines have become a regular part of it. Organic vegetable gardening is bringing the initial concept of pure gardening back, and it is obvious why.

While advancing in technology is something we all support and want, some things such as the vegetables and fruits need to remain as they are. They need to be in their purest form in order to provide us with the essential vitamins and minerals for a healthy body and mind. In our quest of trying to get biggest and tastiest vegetables and fruits, we have destroyed the most essential part, i.e. the vitamins and minerals original fruits and vegetables have in abundance.

Nitrogen increases the growth of lush foliage. Phosphorus assists with strong roots and sterns. Potassium protects the plants from disease and low temperature. These nutrients are required for every plant that stays alkaline for more than a year. In conventional methods, man-made fertilizers are used to enrich the soil. Commercial fertilizers are available as a mixture of the three primary ingredients mentioned. However, in organic vegetable gardening, these nutrients are added in a different fashion.

Composting is a very effective organic way of enriching the soil. Compost can be made easily in pots from your backyard with garden and kitchen food waste. Materials like leaves, lawn cutting, pine needles, weeds, carrot tops, spoiled fruit and vegetable, animal manure and the like, can be used to attain good compost. The decomposition reaction of the organic material forms bacteria and fungi in the soil. This aids in changing over unavailable nutrients like nitrogen to ammonia and nitrates making it usable for the plants. This process is known as nitrification. Rock phosphates, natural occurring deposits of phosphorus in combination with calcium, can be mixed with the compost. Natural potassium occurs in substances like wood ashes, tobacco stems, seaweed, potash salts and ground rock potash. They can be also mixed for organic vegetable gardening.

Mulch is an organic material that you cover your soil with to help keep the water in, prevent weed growth and provide nutrients to the plants. Leaves, grass, and wood shavings are all successfully used for mulching. This is one more important aspect of organic vegetable gardening.

When pest resistant varieties are planted, natural predators and parasites are used to consume the harmful insects. Mulching the soil serves to avert direct contact with sunlight as the harmful organisms need bright sunlight to develop. These methods employing organic vegetable gardening techniques will facilitate in enhancing a healthy and abundant crop.

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