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Basics of Landscape Design
George W. Vanderbilt knew exactly how to design the ultimate landscape at Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC--hire Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of landscape architecture in America to do it. While it's unlikely that the average homeowner has the...
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But when you...
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The Natural Beauty of Teak
Teak wood is beautiful, durable in exposed conditions, so teak furniture is in wide use as outdoor furniture. In addition to its wide use as teak furniture for outdoor use, teak wood is also used for making boat decks...
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Your outdoor plants have worked hard for you all summer, making your yard a place you're proud to call home. Properly winterizing your lawn and garden is an important step toward healthy soil, lush grass, and happy plants next year. Remember to take...
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Organic Gardening: Going Back to the Basics
Because of an alarming condition of our atmosphere these days
and the impact of technological innovations have on our health,
everything seems to be resorting to a more viable option -
organics. From foods to even hobbies like gardening, organics
had definitely taken the limelight.
Nowadays, one of the gradually emerging lucrative activity for
hobbyist, and environmentalist for that matter, is organic
gardening. It slowly replaces the traditional type of gardening
that involves harmful chemicals that speed up the destruction of
our Ozone layer.
Organic gardening, basically, refers to one type of gardening
that deviates from the customary use of chemicals like
fertilizers and pesticides. Because of these, many
agriculturists contend that engaging into organics gardening
makes one in synchrony with nature.
The basic notion of organics gardening boils down to the fact
that it is best to feed the soil and not the plant. Thus, we can
hypothetically say that, in organic gardening, it is the soil
that needs more nourishment than the plants, or simply because
it's from the soil that the plants obtain their nourishment. A
healthy soil yields a healthy plant, so to speak.
In organic gardening, the basic concept of "fertilizing" the
soil is to use organic materials like composts and manures. When
fertilizing the soil, it doesn't necessarily mean that you use
fertilizers. In fact, fertilizers were primarily denoted as
anything that increases the soil's fertility.
Hence, organic gardening is a way of going back to the basics,
the traditional use of basic fertilizers that increases the
soil's capability to enrich the plant. In this manner, the
grower uses minerals like calcium coming from the fossils of
dead animals, nitrogen from legumes or manures, phosphorus from
bones of dead animals, and potassium from wood ashes.
On the other hand, organic growers also consider
composts of other living things like vegetables or plants when
incorporating the idea of organic gardening. Its by-product is
known as the humus, which is definitely good for the soil. In
organic gardening, humus is an important element in plant
production because it contains cellulose that
performs like a
sponge and retains moisture in the soil so that it will be made
available for the plants as they grow.
Moreover, organic gardening incorporates the traditional way of
controlling animal pests like physical removal of insects, crop
rotation, interplanting, and introduction of prey species. These
methods lessen the growth of insects and curb the multiplication
of pests. It also impedes the development of diseases that were
emphasized by "agribusiness monocropping".
In addition, organic gardening employs the typical suppression
of weeds and vegetables pests without having to opt for
herbicides. In this organic gardening method of removing weeds,
"mulches" are placed on the weeds to prevent them from obtaining
the amount of light they need in order to grow. These mulches
act as barriers for weeds and vegetable pests. They come in
different forms like leaves, stones, wood, or straw.
In general, the technique of organic gardening lies on two
agricultural concept: permaculture and biodynamic agriculture.
Permaculture or permanent culture refers to that area in
agriculture wherein certain ecological principle, "shared
ethics" like earth care and people care, and design tools are
used so as to gain sustainable development in plants. On the
other hand, biodynamics agriculture is composed of a biological
at the same time sustainable system of agricultural assembly.
With these two concepts, we can safely derive the fundamental
idea of organic gardening as a system based on environmental,
sustainable, and ethical principles of man.
So, we now know for a fact that organic gardening is definitely
a lot better than what science and technology teaches us these
days.
The only drawback is that it is science that taught us the basic
ways on how to care for the environment in the first place, and
yet, it is also the same mentor who is teaching us how to employ
concepts that eventually leads to nature's destruction. Isn't it
ironic?
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