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7 Reasons to grow your own organic vegetable garden
During the last decades there has been a change towards
mechanization and homogenization of farming, which uses
pesticides, additives, herbicides, synthetic fertilizers and
mass-production techniques. All this is clearly affecting
mankind's health, and new diseases are spreading rapidly amongst
humans and animals (bird's flu being the most recent one).
The World Health Organization produces reports to show how the
use of chemicals and other products on food, coupled with the
manufacturing processes involved, are actually a threat for our
health.
If you have space for a few pots or even a small piece of land,
it is a wise decision to grow your own organic vegetable garden.
Today I'm presenting you with seven reasons for doing this:
1. You will have no additives in your vegetables. Research by
organic food associations has shown that additives in our food
can cause heart diseases, osteoporosis, migraines and
hyperactivity.
2. There will be no pesticides or synthetic fertilizers used.
These chemical products are applied to obtain crops all the time
regardless plagues or weather conditions, and affect the quality
of the vegetables. Besides, pesticides are usually poisonous to
humans.
3. Your vegetables will not be genetically modified (GM).
Antibiotics, drugs and hormones are used on vegetables to grow
more and larger ones. One of the consequences of this practice
are vegetables which look all the same and are usually
tasteless. Besides, we end up consuming the hormones that have
been used on the vegetables, with the potential risks for our
health.
4. Eating your own organic vegetables will be
much more healthy
for you. They will not contain any of the products or chemicals
named above, and they will be much more natural than any ones
you would find at the supermarket. Your health will not be at
risk because you will then know that nothing has been added to
your vegetables.
5. Your own organic vegetables will be much more tasty. The use
of pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, hormones and antibiotics
make vegetables grow unnaturally and take the taste away from
them. With organic vegetables, your cooking will be enhanced as
their flavour will show fully.
6. Organic farming is friendly to the environment. Because you
won't use pesticides or other equally harming products on your
vegetables, you will not damage the soil or the air with the
chemical components.
7. When you grow your own organic vegetables you are
contributing to your own self-sustainability and the
sustainability of the planet. Small communities have been
founded where members exchange products that they grow
naturally, thus contributing to create a friendly and better
place for us all.
In the end, eating organic products only means that we do not
add anything else to them than they would naturally have. As you
can guess, additives, fertilizers, pesticides or hormones are
not components of naturally grown food. To better care for your
health, grown your own organic vegetables -and a few pots is all
you need.
About the author:
Cristina Diaz Garcia is the Author and Founder of the "Beautiful
Gardens Email Club". Visit her page for an useful Pot Gardening
free report at
http://www.soapystuff.com/free-garden-reports.html
