I started a new organic garden two year ago , with little backing, from the organization once it got going, it was a disaster loads of slugs (no hedgehogs to eat them because of the busy road, magpies saw off the thrushes)...loads of diseases set in in different plants(pea weevil,another disease that distorted the radish with hardly any crop are two examples), I was filling the slug damaged crop areas by planting with potato tubers,so eventually all was spuds and nasturtium. then the spuds got late blight, but managed to save the tubers, then rats came and bred, but then allso cats and an owl came, so I was starting to see a balance. We needed time and money to get that balance but the organization did not have it. The guy who helped me had an Horticulture degree and had worked in gardening all his life, I have also done this job and studied horticulture, but the management just would not listen to our ideas they wanted stuff a certain way , which led to problems, it was a massive effort on our part though to try and get it right, a