Health
The Utah House Raised Bed garden demonstrates how home gardeners
can grow healthy fresh food that is rich in vitamins and minerals, and
harvested at the freshest stage of maturity. The raised beds are also a
demonstration of organic gardening. Organic gardening means we do
not use synthetic fertilizers or pesticides on the plants. Organic gardening
begins with healthy soil and at the Utah House we add compost and
natural fertilizers to provide our plants with the necessary nutrition.
Organic pest control involves many of the following:
- Allowing for an acceptable level of pest damage
- Encouraging predatory or beneficial insects
- Careful plant selection, choosing well adapted disease-resistant
varieties
- Planting companion plants that discourage insects
- Rotating crops from year to year to interrupt pest reproduction cycles