Gardening? I love it, and if you have a garden,
On this page we will just chat about gardens, and bring you some ideas and concepts for you to think about. At the bottom of this page you will find links to read about compost, worms, butterflies, and many other gardening topics.
First of all gardening is fun! Modern easy garden methods have taken much of the hard work out of gardening. Growing plants using simple organic principles has also taken away the need to use strong pesticides and herbicides.
It used to be that to have a good garden, you had to have rows of vegetables standing in line like soldiers. You didn’t dare have a weed anywhere, you had all bare, cleanly raked soil in between the plants. Most of the weekend was spent weeding, hoeing and digging. I know, I've been there and done that! Well, the good news is that you don’t need to do it like that anymore!
Although many gardeners for years had been using these same basic principles of “no chemical gardening”, it all became more popular with Bill Mollinson and the permaculture revolution. Permaculture is based around a permanently sustainable natural food producing system, and can be as big or as small as one desires. I have seen food gardens built in forests, with fruit such as paw-paws, and vegetables of all descriptions, happily growing amongst native trees and shrubs. Some of these gardens are capable of feeding hundreds of people. While permaculture systems can take many years, even sometimes decades, before they are fully productive and self sufficient, the same or similar principles are now used by growers all around the world, to grow fruit, vegetables, flowers, and even timber plantations! ************************************************************ If you like flower and nature photos, and would like some information on how to improve your own garden photos, go to this great web page!
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Why would you want to dig your garden yourself, when there are millions of little helpers who love gardening too, and are keen to do it for you? Not only will they dig it, they will provide fertiliser, keep the soil porous so it will drain well, and they wont even send you an account for doing so! All they need is a comfortable and suitable place to live, and they will work for nothing!
And if you have an insect problem, call in a frog or a lizard. They love insects! So do small bats. If you provide a suitable habitat for worms in your soil, they will dig your garden for you! If you spray poison for aphids, you will kill off the ladybirds that eat aphids.
You can use mulch to prevent weeds from growing, even use living mulch, which are ground hugging plants that smother weeds, and provide a home for creatures which actively work for you in your garden. Organic gardening is all about striking a balance with nature, not working against it, and sharing the tasks with nature's workers. That is what takes away the hard work, let nature do the work for you! Have you ever wondered about that skinny, windswept, and bedraggled tree that grows on a rocky cliff face? Have you ever wondered what that tree would be like if it were growing in good soil conditions? Well, just like people and animals, it’s the conditions that plants live in that make a difference.
You will even find ways to save water in your garden!
When gardening, the best way to improve your soil is by adding copious amounts of compost. Even sandy desert soils can produce well, if improved with healthy compost. Compost is not hard to make, and we show you how in our compost page!
From our web page we will send you away on little journeys into cyberspace, to find out more about nature, more about gardens, and more about the creatures that will help you in your garden. We will also show you the best ways to get them to enter into an "enterprise bargaining agreement" with you. All you need to do is provide them with a good home! We have lots of interesting stuff for you to read, about getting the best from your garden, and we add to it continually. In fact there are many dozens of pages of herb and garden information. Please bookmark our home page so you can come back and vist again.
ps. Remember, if you keep a green tree in your heart, perhaps a singing bird will come! Happy gardening, Patrick. ps Dont forget to have a look at this page below. You will find lots of helpful ideas for your home and garden!
Click here for lots of home and garden ideas!
Click here for garden baskets! To access all the herb and garden information we have for you, click on the Garden Index on the top righthand corner of this web page. Happy gardening, Patrick
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