Have you ever wanted to be able to grow your own fruit and vegetables, but have found that you don’t really have the time or aren’t entirely sure what to do, well the fact is that for ecological gardening, you don’t need too much time and you don’t even really need to know what you’re doing. In fact, anyone who has never grown food before may even be at an advantage. If you don’t know which rules to follow, then you just go with the flow, which is exactly the way nature intended.
Many traditional gardeners have a tendency to overwork the soil and use un-natural methods of gaining the results we require, and once in that rut, then it’s very difficult to get out. It may even be fear of the un-known, if you have a method that seems to work, then why change it, even if you may be changing it for the better, there is still that step to take into un-chartered territory. It’s losing that control that is difficult, where as in fact, letting go of that control and letting nature take control letting us work together with nature instead of against it, in the long run actually lets us gain more control by being able to grow more food more efficiently than before. Strange but true!!
By growing you vegetables in an ecological way, you not only save yourself time and effort but also money. Even a small area can provide you and your family with plenty of food and with nature helping you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, it leaves you more time to spend doing other things. If this sounds like a good plan then Ecological gardening might be right up your street!
The first thing to do, however is to accept that there will be less for you to do, as you become more of an observer while the garden takes on a continual state of change as it progresses through the seasons. At first it’s hard to have faith that the garden can look after itself, but it’s been doing this kind of thing in nature for thousands of years, and we need to accept that. Sure we need to step in every now and then by providing it with useful plants to fill any gaps that may occur before it decides to put it’s own ideas into play, but once all the gaps are filled then nature will take its course. Read the rest of this entry »
