Your garden is a place where you should feel comfortable about you and your family recreating there. Having an abundance of potentially toxic and hazardous chemical residues lurking in the garden is less than reassuring when it comes to the health of our loved ones. This could very well be the most sensible thing ever said about growing any kind of crop or garden plants. That doesn't mean you should get some goats to mow your lawn or buy a duck for snail control. But it does inspire a bit of thought about the wisdom of instant gratification gardening at the expense of your personal environments and the water, air, and soil quality in your neighborhood.
Wisdom is something that is beneficial.
Natural materials like blood meal, bone meal, alfalfa meal, fish emulsion and meals, and any number of blended commercial organic plant foods are abundantly available and are just as easy to use as any of the materials produced by modern chemical manufacturers. Try some out. Your soil, your plants, and your local environment will be a happier and healthier place because you did . Don Trotter's Natural Gardening columns appear nationally in environmentally sensitive publications.