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Our gardens and allotments are homes to plants, insects, animals, and birds above the ground, and billions of microscopic organisms, bacteria, fungi, worms, and other creatures below the ground.
Man on the other hand is a comparatively casual visitor to mother natures garden. Who has the greater rights? Man or the billions of creatures who exist and live in the garden.
Sympathetic gardening should allow space for all these creatures and still provide pleasure and food for us. Pests can be controlled without being totally exterminated by pesticides.
A weed is only a plant that is growing in a place where is not wanted but it may well provide a home for insects that predate on other pest insect's. Simple techniques can keep a garden tidy and respectable and still provide plant's that will provide homes for predatory insects.
In this day and age we are fortunate that we can combine the benefits of technological improvements with the wisdom gained from thousands of years of organic gardening experience.
Gardening is one of the most popular pastimes. Despite the frantic pace of modern life, with its complex technologies of computers, modern travel with its traffic jams, work problems, etc..
There is timelessness about work in the garden that will never change. Each season has its purpose and essence, with skill we can cajole time a little and force plant's to flower out of season or grow exotic plant's that would not normally grow in our part of the world by creating micro environments in heated glasshouses But this can only be done on a small scale.
The garden can literally bring you back down to earth. Working outside on the land keeps you in touch with the natural rhythms of life provided by nature to keep us in balance. The healthful aspects of gardening also extend to the production of food.
A vegetable that has only travailed down the garden path or from the allotment to reach the pot is certain to have more vitality and more flavour then its scrubbed, uniform, pre-packed counterpart from across the continent. Vegetables adopt their own shape irrespective of the machine age and the expectations of local supermarkets, and taste none the worse for having the occasional kink or twist.
Growing your own fruit and vegetables organically guarantees you safe food and much pleasure.
If you garden organically you provide a home for many different creatures and cerate a better environment enabling us to live on this planet.
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