These days you see a lot about “Green” in the media-and what could be
more green than gardening? Gardening is the epitome of “green”
right? Well, yes and no-it depends on how you do it. When it comes to gardening there are two main camps-Conventional and Organic.
Conventional gardening utilizes chemical fertilizers to promote growth, and
chemical pesticides to control pests. This is the way most of the
produce you see on your grocery store shelves is grown.
Organic gardening might sound like the “new in-thing” but really it is a very “old thing”.  Organic gardening is simply growing things in the way people have for centuries.
Chemical fertilizers and pesticides were only introduced on a large scale in the 1940s, before that all gardening-and all food for that matter-was what we would call “Organic” today. So “Conventional” has only been the convention for about 70 years.

When you garden organically, you only use naturally occurring materials. Organic gardeners concentrate on increasing the health (fertility) of their soil. They do this by introducing organic matter (such as compost or manure) that improves the texture and water retention ability of the soil, and slowly releases its nutrients to the plant life. Well, that sounds great! So why doesn’t everyone do Organic gardening?