Fences. I recommend fencing the entire property with a high and solid fence. Plenty of wild animals are attracted to enter your garden. Depending on your location, the animals will vary, of course. In my location, there are families of boars who like to dig in the ground, especially when the crops are almost ready to be harvested. They will eat everything they find on the ground. Badgers destroy plants’ roots when they search for worms, and roe deer eat lettuce, trees, and other young plants. Not to mention passers-by and neighbors who like to taste something or „borrow“ tools (yes, we all have neighbors like that!) :-). A basic…
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Simple gardening – Soil types, no-dig and minimal dig method /1
Gardening starts with thinking. Let’s say we have an idea for a garden. What do we need to think about and consider first before digging a hoe into the dirt? A place. The location of our garden is one of the most important things. Based on the location of our place, we can choose suitable plants to grow. It is nonsense to want to grow tropical palms and cacti in a place where winter temperatures drop below freezing. I recommend looking around—what plants grow freely in nature here, and do they thrive? What do the other neighbors have in their gardens? I will elaborate more on this topic in the…
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Simple gardening – introduction
The articles in the „Garden“ category were initially created as a book. I wanted to have comprehensive information about everything I do in the garden and quick access to it whenever I need it. The gardening books I know contain either a lot of unnecessary details or overly detailed content, so they haven’t been beneficial to me. In the end, I decided not to publish this work as a book and to focus instead on my „art therapy,“ so I’m now releasing each chapter as a standalone article. The chapters build on one another, but they also work as complete and easy-to-understand guides for individual categories or topics. Simple Gardening…