Many people have turned to organic gardening today.Chemicals are known to harm the environment and many organic gardeners understand this and avoid the use of such chemicals.Organic gardening involves ensuring that the soil is well taken care of and therefore does not require any extra chemicals.When the soil has organic material, it becomes moist, airy and very fertile.These qualities are the most ideal for healthy plants regardless of the time of year.Organic material in the soil encourages the production of earthworms and other natural organisms that release healthy bacteria into the soil.The organisms also allow the roots of the plant to grow deeper and therefore ensure that the plant reaches into the ground to get water and nutrients.

Since organic gardening does not involve the use of chemicals, it makes it very easy for gardeners to maintain their gardens because all they need is the sun, water and nutritious soil.Learning how to make and use compost manure is very important to ensure that the soil has the nutritional value plants require.Compost can be made in many ways even easily at home.Leaves, kitchen waste and other household waste can be layered and left to decompose in a pit or bin.To ensure that the desired compost is produced gardeners should mix hard and brown waste with green and soft waste in almost equal portions and leave them to decompose.The waste can be put in a corner in the yard in bins with lids that have a passage at the bottom.The opening at the bottom of the bin is to allow gardeners take out decomposed waste in bits and leave the rest to continue decaying.

To ensure that the decaying waste starts off in the right direction, a bit of already decayed waste should be added.This process also speeds up the decomposition as compared to letting it decay naturally.The decayed compost added is called compost starter and can also be bought over the internet or in gardening stores.These compost starters bought in shops have enzymes and nutrients that speed up the decomposition process as well.This is mostly effective if the waste is hard and brown such as wood shavings and other wooden waste.Sprinkling the compost starter on the top layer enables the decomposition process to take off easily.The food and plants produced from organic gardens is healthy and safe enough and can be consumed by children and adults and it is also much cheaper than using commercial compost.