Why Go Green – Natural Gardening For Myself and For the Love of Nature

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An natural gardening is the mainly valuable present you can give to your family.

Previously 100 square meters of fertile garden ground are sufficient, with practiced cultivation, to give a 4-headed family all year round with vegetables, salad , berries and fruit.

Scientists have concluded that a natural garden have a very much better ecological use to nature than a sterile wasteland or forest surfaces.

With the fruits which you harvest from your specific garden, you by yourself determine how much they are poisoned with pesticides and Fertilizers.

Not only the health of the family, but also the nature is saved by a {
cultivation|farming|agriculture|gardening|nurturing} way free of poison. Use, wherever possible, your own vegetables and fruits.

If you own no garden, you can lease - even with friends together - a garden or field which you plant together. Think of your children. If you provide with them together in their personal, small vegetables, flower-garden or herb garden which they plant and collect themselves.

In this way children learn to understand the relations between people, plant, animal and nature. If you have enough place, build with your children a small house or wigwam from willows.

For children it is impressively exciting to plan an real house, to build and develop it in appearance. They thereby experience nature and environment in a new and exciting way.

Rules for biological, natural gardening:

Renounce to chemical pesticides and artificial fertilizers,

Don't be angry at possible collect losses in the first time. The longer and closely controlled you work , all the more the natural stability of usfull insects and pests produces themselfes.

Supply in a compost heap in which you can use all garden and nearly all culinary rubbish.

Don't use peat in the garden, because in this manner you help the destruction of the last high-level moors. Compost, foliage or bark humus fulfill the same purpose.

If you don't fertilize with mineral fertilizer, but with compost or plant broths; camomile tea strengthens the plants, dandelion broth stimulates the growth, cabbage liquid manure is suitable for seedlings.

Cultivate in your vegetable garden mixed cultures. The right grouping of vegetables and herbs strengthens the plants and prevents pest infestation.

If needed, produce,your plant protection agents yourselves. For every virus or pest a herb has grown, like nettle broth against lice and spinning mites, field box stalk against fungous diseases like rust, mildew and scurf, rhubarb tea against black lice and leek moths.

Plant as ornamental vegetation only domestic plants. They give shelter and food to useful animals and insects.

Let wild herbs grow on undisturbed places. They are food for butterflies and many other insects.

Don't remove old trees, especially fruit-trees, from the garden and saw off old knots only if they show a danger. Dead wood offers a habitat to many small animals.
Let the lawn grow, at least in a small part of the garden and renounce to weekly mowing . If you do not fertilize the lawn, it will grow by itself in the course of time a colored flower meadow one which they must mow only one to two times per year.

supply in a garden pond. It attracts animals and insects and by this means supports the ecological steadiness in your garden.

Get a rain barrel and collect rainwater to sprinkle the garden. Let a piece of wood swim in the barrel, so animals fallen into the water can escape.

If you plant bushes or hedges instead of a dull garden wall or a fence, they will filter dust and heavy metals of the traffic.

To make birds extra nests, hang up nesting boxes with special, big openings.

Turn old foliage under bushes. Earthworm, beetle, woodlouse, centipede and many other insects live in this foliage. Shift and process them to humus. In addition , a foliage heap offers a winter shelter to hedgehogs.
before the acquisition of engine-pursued machines, consider, whether the work can be also done natural non electric or motorized way.

Think of your neighbours. A garden should offer peace and quite for everyone.
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