Organic gardening is a form of horticulture that concentrates on care for the soil using the following natural methods rather than artifically enriching it with synhthetic fertilizers and use of herbicides:

• Home Composting
• Use of green manures

It encourages us to control weeds as follows rather then using chemical herbicides (weedkillers).

• Mulching around plans and between rows
• Mechanical cultivation*

It stresses the need to control and discourage pests using the following methods rather than using genetically modified crops and synthetic pesticides:

• Crop rotation
• biological pest control
• Organically approved pesticides in some cases
• companion planting

It generally relies on the balance of nature to keep things healthy and interferes with this as little as possible.