Gardening
If
you want to be happy for a day, get drunk. If you want to be happy for a week,
go on holiday. If you want to be happy for a month, get married. If you want to
be happy for life, grow a garden.
Source unknown
We grow more than plants in a good garden. There is such a sweet symbiotic relationship between the garden and the gardener .... that it can be hard to tell where one ends and the other begins.
No question about it ... it takes time to grow a good gardener. These gardening pages are meant to repay the great advice that helped me down my own garden path:
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Primer offers a bit of garden planning food for thought
- Inspiration has a list of my favourite virtual garden links
- Practical Magic has most of the organic gardening info, such as
- Living By the Moon explains how to use timing, instead of chemicals
- Composting ... what could be better than free fertilizer?
- Crop Rotation does double duty to boost production and as chemical free pest control
- Companion Planting - learn how a little planning can make your garden grow much better
- Mulches can save hours of weeding
- Earth Friendly gardening is usually easier on your wallet too!
- Natural Habitat Gardens can help your own garden grow
- Gardeners Wheel - follow the gardening wheel of the year
If you don't have time or space to grow your own garden, you can reap many of the benefits by:
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supporting your local farmers at farmers markets ... its good for the local economy, better for this good earth because there is less gas needed for shipping and of course its good for you and your family
- find out if there are community gardens in your area... or think about starting one up
- buy organic wherever and whenever you can
Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
