If you are an advocate of growing organically, you cannot avoid getting asked the question “is organic food better?”. I love to be able to honestly answer “yes” to that one!

However, that’s not likely a response that appeases either the contemptuous or the concerned inquirer. We must have more information here!

Nutrients Organically grown food contains more nutrients, like vitamins and phytonutrients, than conventionally grown. This has been shown in more than one study. Plants grown in an organic manner do not grow so fast, and therefore are able to store more nutients than their fastgrowing counterparts in the non organic garden.

Less chemicals Bugs, micro organisms and fungi are among the pests that farmers need to protect their crops from. In conventional farming this is achieved through the use of strong chemicals, designed to harm or kill the targeted pests. However, these chemicals also affect other organisms, including you and me. Studies cannot foresee all the impact they can have since they all mix in the body, most likely creating synergi effects we can only guess about. if we eat organic food we at least cut out some of these chemicals from our diet.

To be able to call your garden an organic food garden, you have to use an organic fertilizer for vegetables. Why is that? Why can’t I just use the usual mineral fertilizer, which should work just fine?

If you want a garden that you can honestly call organic, this is just not an option to consider. There are some reasons for this, but explaining those are not within the limits of this article.

Organic fertilizers come in some varities with different merits and drawbacks. What they are depend on what kind of garden you have and what is possible for you.

If you want a fertilizer that is both a nutiemt supplier and a soil conditioner, horse or cow dung is a good one to choose.

If you want an organic fertilizer that slowly releases the nutrients into the soil you can choose bone dust. This is also good for plants that demand calcium and a high pH value, since bone dust contains a lot of calcium.