CALLING ALL ORGANIC GARDENERS
Healthy Gardens Offer Life to All
Planting a garden without the use of chemical fertilizers, with fast releasing nitrogen,
allows the plants to grow more slowly. Chemical fertilizers make plants bulk up on
carbohydrates and water. We aid the soil the old fashioned way, we compost and mulch it.
In return our foods are packed with higher dry matter, better nutrition, and taste.
Organic gardeners don't use toxic herbicides and pesticides to kill weeds and pests.
Instead we use companionship planting and the garden attracts pollinating honey bees,
hummingbirds and other birds, and good insects including butterflies and moths.
The wonder of nature unfolds in the organic garden as the gardener watches beautiful
butterflies fluttering about. The whizzing of hummingbirds is thrilling and seeing the
tiny bird perch on a flower stalk is beyond delight. Watering the garden becomes a
recreational activity as the gardener sees robins taking a bath and digging for worms in
flower beds.
And the heart is made glad. The organic garden is a perfect living organism in harmony
with all living beings. As organic gardeners, we know this and support a natural setting
for our handiwork.
Tell Us About Your Garden
We welcome members to share their own organic gardening stories. Do you have garden photos
you would like to share with fellow gardeners? Let us know what your preferred composting
methods are. What native plants are growing in your corner of the world? Are there
invasive plant species displacing native plants where you live? Tell us about what
flowers, herbs, and foods you enjoy growing and why? What good insects are in your garden?
What birds come to visit?
Let us know about your gardens and we can expand the knowledge base of organic gardening
together. If your garden club or community garden is working on a special organic
gardening project let us know. We aim to publish articles in the Butterflies and Garden
newsletter and on the website with member participation.
mailto:maryellen@happytonics.org
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 Wild purple bergamot.
Amelia at the farm.
GROW community gardens, DC.
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