People have been growing gardens forever. Tending a vegetable garden has a dual purpose, not only does a garden provide the grower with fresh vegetables, it also connects the grower with the land. In an attempt to keep the land as pure and clean as possible many gardens are shunning the chemically enhanced fertilizers and pesticides that they have used on past gardens, now they are concentrating on growing organic gardens and relying on organic garden stores to help supply them with supplies and information.

What Is An Organic Garden Store?

Organic gardening is growing a garden and using only natural things that once came from the earth to keep them healthy. Organic farmers like to use animal waste to keep replace the nutrients their crops take from the earth. People who are growing organic gardens are often growing the gardens in their backyards and don’t have ready access to livestock waste as well as other tools necessary for organic gardening. People with organic gardens in their backyards rely on organic garden stores for their gardening supplies.

The Advantage of an Organic Garden Store

Although most gardening stores carry products for organic gardening amongst their other gardening supplies most organic gardeners prefer shopping at an organic garden store because they don’t have to read ingredient labels which adds a considerable amount of time to the shopping experience. A second advantage to an organic garden store is that all of the other customers and all of the employees are also organic gardeners. This provides an instant network of people that know all the ins and outs of organic gardening. Shopping at a gardening center that is full of knowledgeable people when you are first starting your organic garden is extremely helpful.

Most garden stores and nurseries sell some young plants that gardeners purchase, take home, and plant in their backyard garden. These plants are pre-started to accommodate parts of the country where the growing season is to short to grow vegetables from seeds. According to the laws of organic gardening, these young plants must have been started in organic conditions, with only natural fertilizers and no man made pesticides. One of the best ways to make sure that your young garden plants are genuinely organic is to purchase them from an organic garden store. The owners of organic garden stores go to great lengths to make sure that seeds and plants that they sell all come from certified organic nurseries. In addition to making sure that the young plants were organically grown they will also make sure you are purchasing a healthy plant.