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| Self heal filling the "Herb Circle" garden - which is a space where the trees form a circle. This area is where we currently live till the house is built |
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| Butterfly weed & Black eyed Susan |
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We've been learning to grow using perma-culture and are reading
"Gaia's Garden" by Toby Hemenway. We are growing organically, but want to eliminate organic bug sprays and fertilizers. The plants in the first bed haven't needed any organic bug spray, but we did have to pick off some horn worms - not an overwhelming amount and none for a while. But the potatoes, beans and brassicas just were not in the right place at the right time. When you go into healthy woods, you rarely see plants destroyed by bugs, it's in balance. Nature knows how to grow plants without our help and people that study those systems have learned to come close to mimicking nature in many ways in the garden. A balanced garden in a balanced place shouldn't need to worry about pest control - organic or otherwise.
