Marketing would be very difficult if low quality vegetables were offered for sale. Summary Organic food production is as much a state of mind as it is a production system. The biggest barrier most people face when switching to organic production is the change in thinking that must occur to make it successful. We have long been taught to treat individual insects and diseases separately instead of looking at things as a whole. The organic gardener must understand how everything is inter-related and how one set of circumstances will influence other factors in how the plant grows.
Prevention is the first and best defense against pests in organic vegetable production.
There has been a perception by some people that organic vegetable production is farming through neglect. A strong, healthy plant is much more important in an organic system then a conventional system. A two to three year learning curve must be accepted by anyone intending to switch from conventional to organic gardening. What works one year may fail the next. Management skills are challenged.