I was in the garden centre the other day and the shelves of weedkillers and pesticides caught my eye. There are so many products for killing things - and would you look at the prices! We don’t use chemicals in the garden apart from fertilisers and the less we use them, the more growing success we have.
Natural methods are more effective and so much cheaper!
It sounds counterintuitive, but over the years by welcoming nature, not using pesticides, and digging up weeds instead of spraying them, we have created a balanced, diverse ecosystem in our little patch and harnessed the power of nature.
Yes, we lose things - our brassica crops last year looked like moth-eaten doilies but that was because the netting we bought to protect them didn’t…
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Amateur Gardening (Digital) - 1 Issue, 27-Apr-2024