The image
above is my photo taken 16 July 2019. It’s the neighbor’s garden of ornamentals
for sale. Me, I would grow food also in hanging baskets if I had my own garden.
Organic garden – vegetables and fruits I would grow there. And I would be
gardening all year-round.
I’m now
reading Leigh Clapp’s article
“Organic Gardening: How To
Create A Successful Organic Garden” (08 July 2020, Real Homes, realhomes.com),
where she says:
Organic gardening is
both simple and rewarding. Plus, it will benefit wildlife, your own health and
reduce your environmental impact too. Here's how to get started...
She is in the US of A and I am in the islands called Philippines
thousands of miles away, but it doesn’t matter – food is food and gardening is
gardening.
Organic gardening –
and in particular, vegetable gardening and growing fruit organically – gives
you the peace of mind of knowing exactly what has gone into producing your
food. No man-made chemicals, fertilizers and nasties. It also results in the
freshest and tastiest fruit and vegetables possible.
What’s
there not to like?!
Here, Leigh is telling me about companion planting, which is something I have yet to hear or
read in the Philippines:
An organic garden does
not fend for itself. If you want to try organic gardening, you need to know how
you can strengthen plants’ health naturally and learn how to use alternative
ways of warding off pests. Growing your own organic vegetables and fruit[s]
does not mean you can't enjoy flowers, too – much to the contrary. Fruit and
vegetable crops will benefit from the pollinators that come to enjoy your
flowers – the brighter the better.
You will enjoy the flowers – and so will the pollinators &
other organisms who will help control the population of would-be pests as they
become food for the birds!
Leigh says:
There are five main
principles to bear in mind as you learn how to garden organically: a good site,
healthy soil, biodiversity, sustainable resources, and avoidance of chemicals.
Me, give me any site and I will make it good,
organically! I will practice what is known as trash
farming (or trash gardening, if small scale), using a rotavator to
create an organic layer of plant materials and soil cut & mixed together
and automatically laid all over the site. This is an original organic farming/gardening
process that I now call “Rotavator Organic WEALth – Weeds-Enriched Automatic
Layer of Trash Triggering Terrestrial Health.” Whatever it was before, the soil
now becomes healthy for vegetables and flowers. (For more and free
details, you can PM me on Facebook anytime.)
It’s
called “organic gardening” as it avoids all those inorganic or chemical
fertilizers, insecticides, fungicides, weedicides. Happy, healthy foods I will raise
in my own green & gold garden – and so can you!@517
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