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by Matei Monica

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Why going green?

Gardens should be alive, not just with plants, but with all manner of insect, bird and animal life. To me the notion of a sterile garden is a frightening thing. Attracting the wildlife to the garden is something that came before the gardening came to life.
As a child, I had been enjoying birds and caterpillars long before it was begonias and camellias. I had been using to lie in our back garden, under a blackout material, and see how many blackbirds, thrushes, pigeons were. They would come close for scattered crumbs, on their way to a deeper and safe sky. The evening lectures on the back yard about bats, badgers and snakes, improve the view of threatening. Because, everything it makes to enjoy, carrying of a further way and working happily together. The world around is beautiful, depend how you take it.

Than I became a gardener on the spare time. And, started to form that uneasy truce that gardeners must achieve, have its own way of being. If, the desire is to raise pest-free crops and still enjoy wildlife in the garden. Armed with both allies, knowledge and nature itself, a fairly and selective manners appear. It is about being in strong construct with the nature's elements. What you say, would you like it for you?
So, what I have? A garden full of pests! No. I also have a garden full with predators. They may find their food sources, balancing the species and
they themselves decline. This is the reason for which, takes several years to build up a working organic garden. In the end, it is worth!

Today I am happy, I love the leaves with slugs and snails, especially the cabbages. While they eat, the vegetable are good for my health, too. The holes are visible and I have been trying to use the natural methods to make them free of the cabbages. No way! None of them worked! But
I found a part of the garden, properly for snails. Now, they leave there, in better conditions and free. In time, came a step that make you to understand the beauty of the simple connection between two difference parts, but near. The way is completely effective, planted year by year and can be an incredible feel into their lives.
Nobody said it was going to be easy having a garden for everything. But, what you achieve is yours and none can take it. It is going to be interesting! It is yours and you worked for it.
A garden without wildlife? Not for me. Thank for your question.

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