If you think about it, everything used for organic gardening is exactly the same as it is in the regular kind; except that it uses different kinds of products for fertilizer and pest control.
The organic gardener is a stickler for the greenness of what he puts in into his garden.
This makes life somewhat difficult for anyone who won't accept regular wisdom.
What do you do with unfriendly insects? How to control weeds? For the benefits that organic gardening brings, there certainly is a good degree of hard work it requires.
Ideally, soil is very dark colored, smells clean and deep, and is kept that way by earthworms.
The more earthworms you have in your soil, the better.
To make soil healthy enough for it, use organic compost with the remains of kitchen waste, grass and mulch, natural manure and dead leaves.
Make sure that the earth has moisture to absorb all of this matter but not too much, and you should be set.
Your soil will be virile and your plants will be robust.
That's a fact that affects any garden pest situation you may have on your hands.
The more healthy your plants are in general, the less pests will feel like coming in spoiling it all for you.
Keeping your plants healthy then, is about the first aim for organic gardening among any you may have.
When you do get an infestation problem in your garden, usually the insect responsible is partial to one kind of plant alone.
Gardens need to balance the many different kinds of plants they have, one against the other.
Letting one kind predominate makes it easy for an insect infestation take down your entire effort.
But insects can come, even if you do everything right.
Once you do have an infestation problem, you will wish for the kind of help nature's little helpers alone can provide - hundreds of little lady bugs, birds, lizards and frogs - natural predators of pests.
You could also use plant collars and sticky traps.
Planting garlic around your patch can help too.
So far so good; for organic gardening success though, you need to have a solution at hand for the weeds that are likely to be bothering you.
The best way to keep weeds at bay is the use of organic mulch.
Corn meal gluten will keep weeds at a minimum too if you start early enough.
Keep weeding and you should win the battle.