Organic Gardening
Gardening without chemicals is growing in popularity among commercial growers as well as home gardeners. The most important of the earth’s resources is a fertile soil, because our food supply depends on it.
Research has revealed that when heavy concentrations of all the major elements were doubled in solutions to grow tomatoes, the mite population doubled, too. Chemical farmers who used twice as much fertilizer as recommended “to be sure that plants are well fed” then saw plants getting eaten by pests. Organically grown plants will be eaten by some insects, but not as much as chemically grown plants. For organically grown plants: “Sticks and stones may break my leaves and stems, but chemicals will never harm me.”