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H.M.J van Geel's avatar

So, I can really relate to your story. When I still lived in a house with a garden, I also spoke with all the plants and creatures, even saw their auras at times, so in the end I was the proud owner of a garden where lived whatever wanted to live there.

As for our collectively destructing the Earth, well, all living people are born into this system that will kill all what’s living on our Mother.

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Cybele's avatar

Gardening is an odd an thing where we choose who get to be included and excluded.

I must admit that let most garden pests do their thing. I might intermix plants to repel pests but that's about it. A very good gardener said just plant enough variety so you will have something to eat if pest wipe out something else. No need to poison. Nature will find something to eat excess pest the next year.

Fire ants put me in a quandary. I would be fine with the ants if they did not bite me. But they sting and leave little infected pustules so I do put diatamous earth and coffee grounds on them to try and get them to leave. Tomato horn worms also might get chucked to the chickens. Mostly because they can't just eat a little. I have been fairly content with a small rat population in the chicken house that also eat the feed I set out for the chickens. I am also ok with the snakes that eat the rats.

I am getting excited about growing the ecosystem of soil. Adding organic material to feed all the little microbes. Experimenting with magnets and antennas to increase ion transport of nutrients. Making compost teas and biochar to increase life in the soil. I always put earthworms back if I find them and thank them for building soil.

But there is a lot of life and death in the garden. Something always dies. But that makes me even more happy for the things that live. In the woods it's a constant competition for sun and water. The trees that fall and make an opening in the canopy let the next generation grow up. I don't think trees like being crowded. I debate if thinning to benefit other trees and create mini meadows is creative or destructive.

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