If a person were to add chemical fertilizer to a pond to spur an algae
bloom, then to harvest the algae for use as compost, would that still be
considered "organic gardening"?

David Bunch wrote:
If a person were to add chemical fertilizer to a pond to spur an algae
bloom, then to harvest the algae for use as compost, would that still be
considered "organic gardening"?

if organic gardening is gardening without chemicals, then gardening with chemicals is not organic gardening

Kae

Little more complicated than that. Adding 10-10-10 to a compost pile is
still considered "organic gardening" according to a few websites.