Organic food is regarded as one of the most important factors in healthy style of living. In contrary to standard gardening, which is quantity focused and dependent on fertilizers, organic garden, no matter if it is cultivated in your own backyard or in much larger range on organic farm, bases on different goals. It is more quality and health oriented. And this one difference will begin a quite ample list of strengths that organic gardening has over the traditional methods.
Because of the globalized agriculture, food that can be found in most shops comes from various locations spread all over the world. Average time of delivery is about 7 days. During this week vegetables are squeezed in fridge containers to avoid rotting. Even though, thanks to decreased temperature the food does not lose all essential healthy components, it still is not able to keep the best quality. Therefore, shipped vegetables originating from industrialized facilities are a substandard product.
In organic gardening such long travels are intolerable. The food arrives on shelves fresh and healthy, with all advantages of this state.
Growing in healthy conditions helps to gain much more different components from the environment. The soil, thanks to accurate planting set up, is still supplied with new important nutrients. Vegetables themselves help each other with pest repellence and growth.
This scenario is impossible in traditional garden, since the planting pattern is more customized to accelerate the growth. That requires a different strategy in pest and disease protection.
Therefore to protect traditionally grown vegetables the fertilizers are used. It seems apparent that if some ingredient unfavorably influences the insects, it also makes some kind of harm on crop. Vegetables “enriched” with these extra elements later find themselves in stores and on our plates.
As mentioned previously, organic food is much richer in nutrients. Thanks to naturally enhanced soil, healthy, pest free surrounding and the access to natural sunlight, organic vegetables can develop the bigger sizes and provide the elements that are not available from traditionally grown crops.
The unnatural lighting of course helps with photosynthesis but amounts of vitamin D made that way are drastically smaller.
All arguments stated previously are referring to fertilizers and man-made environment as the main reasons traditional gardening gives way to organic when it concerns food quality and health. But these are not the only reasons it is essential to consider ecologically grown food.
On the assumption that someone will make a decision to grow organic food in the home backyard we can come up with a couple of different, economy targeted, reasons. Correctly planned organic garden does not need much time to handle. Some methods expect that the whole time needed to be involved with garden is about 8 hours a year. Of course there are some special requirements to meet but it helps to realize what is achievable.
Also the costs of growing your own food can be remarkably small given the fact that the garden does have to be fertilized and pests are repelled by vegetables themselves.
To sum up, the concept of organic gardening is much older than so named traditional techniques. If we think about enhancing the quality of our food we should undeniably consider installing of our own garden. Not to mention it can save a lot of your time and money.
If you’re interested in organic gardening maybe you should read more of my articles regarding growing your own food.