Organic growing

 In my opinion the home garden can only be organic. You are what you eat and when you are in control why would you choose to expose yourself your family and your pets to potentially toxic pesticides, leave that to the commercial farms... Organic farming is relatively easy to achieve on a small scale back yard setting, once organic techniques are  utilised soil health, plant health and your beds production are increased.  Organic farming does however require you to be prepared, be systematic and stay on top of the little issues before they become big ones. Weeding and pest management has to be a daily issue, pulling weeds and squashing bugs, and don't forget to mulch those beds especially in our warm months.  Healthy fertile soil produce nutrient rich and delicious produce and that's why we do this after all.
 The 3 square metre garden bed challenge is a going to be a great way for me to put my opinions into practice and actually see if I can do this a organic farmer in the city.

There are many fantastic organic fertilisers on the market I use a local made one called Triple boost they also make a great soil improver/ slow release fertiliser called Organic link, I highly recommend both these products, which can be found in Mitre tens and some other hardware chains.