Is Organic Vegetable Gardening Difficult?

Organic gardening isn't as easy as spraying things with a chemical, but it's much more satisfying, and infinitely more healthy, so it's worth the little bit of extra work. Many of the methods involve recycling of some sort, and we need to do that anyway. Something must be done with yard waste and kitchen waste, so we might as well get a compost pile put together to turn the waste into valuable fertilizer for the garden. In the kitchen, we kept a pail under the sink and put many of the kitchen scraps in there - egg shells, coffee grinds, peelings and unwanted parts of vegetables. No meat or bones, but just about everything else. It wasn't difficult at all. We simply emptied the pail every couple of days to help feed the compost pile which would later feed the vegetables, and then they would feed us. As you can see, part of organic vegetable gardening is really a type of recycling. We used to turn leaves under each fall to help add organic matter to the soil and enrich it. Grass ...  more