Out of Respect for the Environment
Urban Gardeners show respect for the environment by reducing wastage and recycling. Plans for the upcoming growing season might include reduced plastic and increased composting. The first will help the environment, the second will help your urban food and flower gardens, and both will save you money.
Garden Inspirations Series – Part 8
As long as we construct lawns and gardens, we will never be weed free. Our lawns and gardens are evidence of our drive to impose our will on nature. Many people prefer neat and clean and pretty to the hodge podge that is nature’s choices. True, we need gardens for our food and we will forever be weeding and battling nature to manage plants and insects so our food survives. I suppose we need golf courses. Do we need lawns?
Garden Inspirations Series – Part 7
In addition to mental stimulation, gardening is also a very healthy physical activity (fresh food and fastidious outdoor fresh air work) but one must exercise some caution. Planting everything at once – the attack style of gardening to “get-er-done” – is not recommended. Planting in stages is better for your health and for more sustained food and flower production.
Garden Inspirations Series – Part 6
Gardening offers a variety of activities to stimulate the mind. Gardening can be simple (soil, seeds, sun, & water) or as complicated as you wish to make it (create the perfect soil composition for specific plants, plan for detailed succession planting, plan for pollinators and insect predators, plan for good and bad plant companions, plan for shade tolerant vs. sun loving plants, create and work with both acidic pH garden areas and alkaline pH garden areas and the plants that thrive better in each, design the perfect weed eradicator, work at harnessing nature’s activities for the benefit of both, work at being in balance with nature to limit gardening issues, etc.). There is something for everyone to take minds off annoying troubles and pending issues.