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diversity in planting
George Shirley wrote:
.... Gardening, at best, is a hit and miss experience in my opinion. You can do everything right and the damned plants won't grow properly or the weather changes to bad, or bugs and birds eat everything you plant, or the dog digs them up. Basically gardening is a crap shoot but if you do the best you can most times you are rewarded. Wife and I gardened with our parents at a very early age and here we are in our mid-seventies still trysting with the garden gods. Just go for it. learning and trying things are both important, but i like to also help the overall production from the gardens by increasing diversity in my patches. i divide my plantings into smaller plots and then hope the critters, bugs and diseases don't get them all. usually they don't. sometimes things do go wrong, but you can sometimes cut your losses and replant with something else if you notice in time. experimenting with different systems of production can be good too. like the ways i've been trying the strawberries in different gardens and seeing how they do when mixed with other plants. i'm now well past the point where critters can eat them all -- they may raid a garden and eat some of the berries but they can't seem to find them all. i still have plenty when i go out to pick. if i'd planted them in more formal rows and there weren't any surrounding plants to provide some cover i think the critters would also have it much easier to find the fruits. songbird |
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