Making Money and Healthy Eating With Organic Gardening
Organic gardening is far more than just not using sprays and chemicals on our foods. The journey really begins with creating a soil mix that is rich in nutrients by using simple every day things like banana skins, which are rich in calcium, silica, sodium, sulphur, magnesium and phospates.Organic gardening is about creating the ideal environment for helpful critters to thrive. Organic gardeners love worms and frogs! It's about allowing some critters you might not really want around, to remain, so that the helpful ones are attracted to your gardens in pursuit of their supper. Ladybugs, for instance, will come if we have some of the bugs they like to eat: aphids, scale insects, mealy bugs, leaf-hoppers, white-fly (my personal nemesis!) and mites. Just remember their spiky larvae aren't pests themselves, but babies who you *want* to have in your garden.
Organic gardening is about knowing which plants thrive if they are planted together and which ones would rather you didn't bother. Tomatoes love to be with asparagus, basil and carrots but aren't keen on living near rosemary and potatoes. Potatoes, in turn, grow well if they're planted near peas, beans, sweetcorn or cabbage. While cabbage doesn't like being near strawberries and tomatoes.
The great thing is, when we get the mix of plants and environment absolutely right (the way Mother Nature intended it to be), we end up with more wholesome food than we could ever need. Even if you've got three continuously hungry sons, like I have, there will still be some organic food which you simply cannot manage to eat. Imagine that: not only your children eating free whole-foods that you've grown, the kind of organic foods most of us can't afford to by - now you've grown excess! That's where the real magic begins. Not only have you saved money on your fresh-food bill, but you have extra food. So, why not barter with it, or sell the surplus? If you got really enthusiastic you could make preserves and sell them. What a great money-making idea! Most towns and cities have weekend markets where regular folk can hire a stand cheaply or you could even set-up an old-fashioned stall at the gate.
In the end, learning to garden organically seems to be a simple answer to helping the environment, improving our health and increasing the amount of cash in our wallet. Making money and eating free organic whole-foods. How could anyone complain about that?
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Karyn Van Der Zwet
Karyn is an ex-teacher and Mum to three boys - and she's on a mission to help parents raise the healthiest, most mature and self-assured children they can.
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