Post date: Jul 6, 2020 3:41:08 PM
By Uma Shashikant
Answering a PM:
Did I always have no pests at my garden?
No. I spent the first two years of my life as a food gardener only dealing with pests. Slugs, snails spider mites, aphids, mealy bugs - I dealt with them all.
Then I learned. Once I stopped overwatering my plants and over feeding them, everything became alright. As simple as that.
Today I only add homemade compost to my plants. And I mulch in summer and winter with crushed brown leaves. Nothing else. I don’t water them if there is a weekly rain. I feed them some liquid nourishments early in the season.
I use no pesticide. Organic or otherwise. No sprays of any kind. Not even neem oil or soap spray.
The garden finds its balance when you multi crop, provide for all insects and life that comes for the food, and have flowers and herbs and food for all creatures around you and not just for yourself.
The four legged creatures only understand territory. So secure your yard with fence where needed. The rest will balance itself if you don’t interfere. And if you don’t plant in straight rows of the same crop since it is your sense of beauty.
Try it!