Growing Your Own Organic Vegetable Garden

I'm growing my own organic vegetable garden in my back yard and I love it. To compose the soil, I use a tiller (or you can use a shovel to mix up the soil, but I would soak the soil with water first to make it soft). I mix the existing ground soil with four 40lb bags of mushroom compost (or you can use chicken, horse, or cow manure) for my 100 squarefoot garden. I prefer mushroom compost because pesticides are rarely used on mushroom crops and the mushroom compost supplies lots of nutrients and increases the water holding capacity of the soil. Then all I do is mix one 5lb bag of Garden Lime to help neutralize the soil and one 5 lb bag of Bone Meal to helps develop sturdy root systems and stimulates plant growth. Both are all natural and approved for organic gardening. I buy my organic plants from my local Ace Hardware store. They are usually about 6" tall at this early stage and ready to plant. You can always start your plants from organic seeds, but I haven't had too much luck with them myself. Every year I buy young tomato plants, yellow squash, zucchini, peppers, cucumbers, all types of lettuce and spinach. I plant everything during the first week of May, after the last freeze (I live in North Carolina, so this will vary depending on where you live). It's not too late to start your summer garden! Then, I just water it everyday and watch it grow. I pick my lettuce and spinach leaves daily to prevent the leaves from growing too big and turning bitter. I pick everything else daily as it is ready and use it for stir-fry and fresh salads. I keep it simple and it's a great healthy hobbie.