What are the benefits of organic gardening versus traditional chemical gardening?
Traditional gardening involves using fertilizers which have already been broken down by various chemical processes so that the nutrients are immediately available to your plants. However, it is this process which makes your plants easier to “burn.” Chemical fertilizers also have other negative effects which may not be immediately visible. It has been shown that using traditional chemical fertilizers can kill the microbes in your soil, making you rely even further on those chemicals in order to produce your crops because the natural processes of decomposition and renewal have been stunted . In short, the more you use chemical fertilizers, the more you will need to use them. Traditional fertilizers also leave chemical residues on your crops and in your soil for long periods of time, covering your food and land, adding to the already copious amounts of man-made chemicals in the Earth. Organic gardening feeds plants by first feeding the soil those plants are in. The organic components in y
