Why
garden organically?
By gardening organically, the dependence on chemicals is removed.
By eliminating chemicals used in regular gardening, your vegetables will
be healthier because they will get the nutrients by natural means.
Unlike traditional gardening; organic gardening will help to prevent
potentially harmful toxins from entering your body. Lastly, it is
much more environmentally friendly.
The biggest problems, with using modern gardening products, are the
man-made chemicals. The modern gardening products such as
fertilizers, pesticides, etc. contaminate the health of humans and the
health of the environment. The reason behind this is because the
chemicals do not just stay on the soil. These chemicals seep into
the ground and poison water supplies, gardens, your home, and as
mentioned, your health. The use of modern gardening products
containing man-made chemicals are responsible for the reduction of the
Earth's ozone layer; and they also have been linked to serious health
problems, including cancer, in humans.
When you decide to garden organically, you can eliminate the concern
for destroying the environment, but more importantly, you can eliminate
the concern for you and your family's health and well-being. When
you use modern gardening products; the toxic chemicals are transferred
to you and your clothing. Obviously, these toxic chemicals could then be
transferred to your children or significant other. Not to mention,
if you plant vegetables non-organically, toxic chemicals will be
absorbed by your vegetables; and in turn, will be ingested by you and
your family. In fact, one common ailment which affects avid
gardeners is dermatitis. By gardening organically, you can
eliminate getting dermatitis of the hands.
By deciding to garden organically, you'll
help prevent the poisoning of groundwater and prevent adding further
toxins to the soil. When man-made chemicals are used for
gardening, it poisons other plants. Because these man-made
chemicals poison the water and other plants, it can be dangerous, or
even deadly, to little creatures that rely on the water to drink or
plants to eat. Lastly, the chemicals used will evaporate into the
atmosphere and return in the form of contaminated rain and/or snow.
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