Choose plants carefully. Grow varieties of vegetables and fruits adapted to your area. Although it may seem obvious, grow crops you and your family love to eat. It's always easier to work with plants that like the climate and the soil that you've got, rather than running around all day, watering, fertilizing, and weeding to keep them happy. Bush beans, lettuces and tomatoes are some of the easiest vegetables to grow.

For the beginning gardener, purchase as many vegetables as possible as transplants from the garden center. Seeds are necessary for root crops, such as carrots and radishes, but transplants of most other vegetables are more likely to be a success.

Plant Correctly. Follow package directions and plant at the proper spacing and depth. Thin seeded crops to the proper distance. Crowded plants become easily stressed and don't produce well.

Mix up different vegetables and flowers - don't plant rows or blocks of the same type of plants. A mixed planting is less likely to get completely destroyed by insect, animal or disease attacks.

Crop rotation is important for an organic garden. This keeps soil at a fertile level and inhibits disease and insects. So, if you've been planting your lettuce and carrots in the same places year after year, this season sit down with a notepad and sketch out a new planting plan.

Organic gardeners need a compost pile. It's very important to have a compost pile for an organic gardener.

As an organic gardener, you'll depend on beneficial animals to eliminate pests. Therefore, you need to include homes for the pest patrol. In flower gardens, you can pick your flowers to attract beneficial creatures. In your vegetable garden, you need to include room among your vegetables for flowers.

During the planting season you can sprinkle used organic coffee grounds into the soil to both enrich the soil content and keep pests like slugs and snails away. You can use non-organic, but organic is better due to the rich mineral content.

Inspect plants every few days for any insect activity. Handpick destructive insects and drop them in a can of soapy water.