By using organic gardening methods, you can make your edible vegetable garden more beautiful, productive and healthier for the environment and your family. By amending your soil with natural fertilizers, you can grow, bigger, more bountiful fruits & veggies and you help keep our waterways clean.

Planting complimentary herbs, veggies, and flowers together add diversity, beauty and they benefit from each other. Certain flowers attract the good insects that eat aphids, and support pollinators. By composting, you are making your soil richer, and you are helping by not adding waste to trash dumps. These five tips will help you get started.

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