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The Benefits of Organic Container Gardening
With organic container gardening, you can transform a roof, patio, balcony, or tiny yard into a garden overflowing with natural beauty. You can also put weather sensitive plants in containers, so it is easy to move them indoors when the weather gets colder.
Plants are protected in containers from bugs and other pests that crawl on the ground. In your garden bed, slugs would quickly take over your beautiful flowers, but with containers they will be less apt to do so. Root eating pests can also be deterred from container plants when you use organic soil.
Organic Garden Mulch: Which Is Best?
There are an abundance of choices to use for your organic garden mulch. They vary in cost and availability dependning on where you live.
Bark mulches have a tendency to cost more unless you happen to reside close to a company that services trees.
Be sure to add a nitrogen fertilizer to your soil before putting down bark mulch if you are not going to compost it first.
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The History of Organic Gardening
The history of organic gardening isn’t as recent as some may think. Organic agriculture can be dated back to thousands of years when we used to till our own soil, plant our own crops and then harvest them ourselves.
When the demand for produce increased we began using chemical herbicides, insecticides, synthetic herbicides and fertilizers on crops to keep up. This style of industrial agriculture was adapted by most countries around the world by the 1950’s.
Cultivating crops industrially was highly efficient, yet as many people have come to realize, by eating the produce grown this way they were also consuming the chemicals themselves.
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What is Organic Gardening?
Many gardeners may ask themselves, “Exactly what is organic gardening?” and “Why should I try it?” Well, organic gardening, also known as organic horticulture, is the science and art of growing plants, such as flowers, vegetables, fruits and ornamental plants.
What makes it different than usual gardening methods is the non-use of synthetic fertilizers or pesticides on plants. 
To succeed at organic gardening, it is more important to think about what you don’t need to do, than what you do need to do. The main difference between organic and traditional gardening is the lack of chemicals being used to grow your garden.
