Dirt in my fingernails...

I've been in the garden! Check out my lettuce and how big they are!! Some nasty slugs got he best of a few heads of lettuce but I've learned a few things about organic gardening:
1. If you want to be rid of pests, you will have to pick them off by hand
2. You have to check your garden 3x a day, everyday
3. You must keep up on your research. There are things I would have never known about such as using grass clippings as mulch, that was SO easy!
4. Marigolds do nothing to protect my garden in particular, they've just provided an appetizer for the slugs on a rainy day before they continue on to my beloved lettuce!!
I've been reading Time Life's Organic Vegetable Gardening which you can find here and I've found it invaluble.
Check the gardening section of this site to see what kind of goodies you might just find...