How to Grow More Vegetables

occurs in nature.

• The nutrients are relocated through the soil by the
  movement of larger soil organisms and when water
  flows downward.


• Organic fertilizers break down more slowly than most
  chemical fertilizers. By utilizing natural nutrient cycles,
  plant-available minerals are released over an extended
  period of time, and so are used more efficiently and
  benefit the plants for their entire life cycle.

Broadcasting fertilizers

More Sustainable Fertilization

Each gardener should strive to use less and less fertilizer
brought in from outside his or her own garden area.
Here are some ideas to create a more “closed-system”
garden, to which few resources are imported:

• Use most of the food you grow at home, so all the
  residues are returned to your soil. “Export” as little as
  possible of your valuable soil resource.