> vegetables. What I'd like to know, how would you add minerals to  the
> soil to ensure that your vegetables would have enough nutrients? Or at
> least the nutrients that they were intended to provide.

When I garden, I make compost out of our food waste. Using just fruit and
veggie waste products.  No meats should go in there.  I made my own
compost bin.  It hangs on an axle and I just use a big handle to turn it
over.  Easier than turning the stuff with a pitch fork.  Plus it
decomposed a lot faster that way.   I subscribe to Organic Gardening.
Great magazine.
Trish