On several occasions you have seen us talking about the importance of having different plants in our garden and today we want to go deeper into this subject, show and explain why we are always repeating this.
Having a garden involves preparing the land, planting, fertilizing and caring for the plants, harvesting, preparing our food, returning the parts we don't use to the compost bin or as green manure for a bed - this way we complete the cycle, from the garden to the table and from the table to the garden!
Having a biodiverse garden goes far beyond choosing diverse plants, it also includes everything we inject into our crops, such as fertilizers or pesticides.
Diversity of plants...different annual plants (eggplants, tomatoes, etc.), different perennial plants (roses, rue, etc.) that will always be in our garden as a link, a constant transition from one season to another, different flowers - different shapes, different smells... perennial shrubs (whaler, wild tobacco, etc.), trees (guava, jabuticabeira, etc.), herbs (rosemary, comfrey, etc.).
Diversity of traditional flowers, which attract pollinators, not just 'fashionable' flowers or plants... different flowers attract different types of pollinators...
The flowers of our vegetables, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce, carrots, are also important for the biodiversity of our ecosystem, don't pull them out just because they are 'over their prime' and aren't as pretty... they may not be as beautiful as flowers that we sow, but they are essential in this ecosystem, serving as food for various insects until our flowers bloom.
And also the diversity of fertilizers... Different fertilizers, different nutrients...
It is essential to close the cycles - from the garden to the kitchen, from the kitchen to composting, from composting back to the garden...
From plant to flower - from flower to seed - from seed to plant…
Biological diversity goes beyond plants, it includes the entire ecosystem which, if balanced, will work in harmony 💞
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