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| This British gardener, Shewell-Cooper, wrote in Compost Gardening that the organic material should be left on top for the creatures to pull down. He made massive amounts of compost for that, but the same can be done with mulch left in place and renewed when digested. |
One of the great fallacies of gardening is the urge to dig, plow, and turn over all the soil - to make it better!
One LCA pastor proudly told me that he took all the fallen leaves and rototilled them into the soil in the fall. He took a warm, insulating leaf blanket that would let the soil creatures stay warm and moist, away from the sun, converting the mass into food for billions of microbes and soil creatures. And then he slaughtered the soil population with his machine.
He was also an advocate for the lavender revolution in the LCA, so it was no surprise he did not grasp "the laws of Nature and of Nature's God."
This plant cell shows that a complex of chemical factories and regulating equipment is found at the microscopic level, all designed perfectly by the Creator.
The soil is almost as complex and also adept at self-healing. The garden soil has to heal itself after so many take their 10 hp osterizers to stir it up, as if they are sifting flour to make it better.
To exert the least labor and enjoy the most results, gather and keep organic matter for constant mulching. The lawn crew kept the maple tree nursery they scooped out of the gutters, and I thanked them.
Egg shells and Epsom Salts do not improve the soil, but coffee grounds do. The handiest and easiest free materials are bags of mown grass and raked leaves.
Let living roots grow instead of rooting them out of the ground. I foster Poke Weed (tap root) in the backyard and Dandelion in the front. Birds love me, so I have lots of Poke in Rose Garden. I snip those off at the base, leaving the greens as mulch.
Almost all greens are high in nutrition (nitrogen) and quickly used in composting or mulching materials.
A compost pile is handy when getting rid of a huge amount of green. I put one in the corner of our yard, in the shade of a Mimosa weed tree. Mr. Gardener added all of his - which he loved, and I loved. I parked some red wiggler worms there, never hauled any stuff out. It kept going down, down. The Mimosa supercharged, going from weak and barely there to one we both cut back. It wanted the sun from their yard too.
Where Is This Going?
The Word works the same way. Luther says the Word has 100,000 arts against the thousand arts of Satan. God's complexities are as infinite as the relationships we see in Creation. |
| Digging small holes is fine. I think this was staged. |
