Following up on my previous posts about Summer Vegetables (here and here), Ellamae has a very good post on Organic Gardening.

Organic gardening is big thing with me. Just on the environmental front, pollution from home gardens (in particular lawn fertilizers) is a significant source of pollution. In some areas a bigger problem than any farming activities could ever be. On top of that, gardening is a way to get back to the basics. I don't want to get too mystical here, because I don't look at it that way, but there is something very satisfying about getting your hands dirty in the garden. You just don't get that same satisfaction behind a pump sprayer.

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