After watching lectures this week, I feel like I have good understanding of the history of organic gardening. I found the classifications of organic grades, and the requirements for them to be very interesting.
In order to be an organic gardener, you have to be less concerned with profits than you are about sustainability and safe crop production. By planting a diverse assortment of species you can ensure that your garden is full of different kinds of life all benefiting from each other in symbiotic relationships. Pests are naturally attracted to a glut of produce. This is why large scale crop productions often need to use pesticides directly applied to plants in order to control disease and pest problems. By diversifying what we put in our gardens we can prevent nature from trying to counteract the large amount of produce with pests and other harmful things.
By reducing the need for pest control, we also reduce the need to apply chemicals to our plants. When we apply chemical treatments harmful to pests, trace components often get into the fruits that we consume. These components can be harmful in various ways, thus we need to be careful with what makes its into our garden soil.
In order to be an organic gardener, you have to be less concerned with profits than you are about sustainability and safe crop production. By planting a diverse assortment of species you can ensure that your garden is full of different kinds of life all benefiting from each other in symbiotic relationships. Pests are naturally attracted to a glut of produce. This is why large scale crop productions often need to use pesticides directly applied to plants in order to control disease and pest problems. By diversifying what we put in our gardens we can prevent nature from trying to counteract the large amount of produce with pests and other harmful things.
By reducing the need for pest control, we also reduce the need to apply chemicals to our plants. When we apply chemical treatments harmful to pests, trace components often get into the fruits that we consume. These components can be harmful in various ways, thus we need to be careful with what makes its into our garden soil.
I honestly can't remember
the exact plant this is, maybe Bok Choy?
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