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Hello gardenjim…. wow…I am speechless. You definitely are a hero too. I have shared my views with friends and acquaintances and hopefully too they are convinced by it. It can be somewhat intimidating trying to change the minds of people who are fixed in their own ideas.
To give an example, a few days ago, I went to my neighbour to give them salad plants to plant. To my horror, I saw their beds were DUG OVER like some big animal (most likely the husband) had made a mess with the soil! Charles, you would soooooo cringe! ha! They said they had to mix the soil with fertiliser to plant their potatoes. (I highly suspect they buy fertiliser – the chemical type…. I don’t even know how to describe what those are called – never used them before) I told them never to do this and explained and that our very own garden was an example of Charles´ no-dig method and everything flourishes with no back-breaking tasks. I was kinda irked when they said this digging over has always been the method adopted like forever! I honestly dislike advising people who are fixated in their ideas and aren’t open-minded and have any common sense. Explained to them in the wild and forests, no one digs the soil, all the goodness and decomposition of organic matter are performed by the gazillion of microbes/insects/soil animals to enrich the soil etc. Haha… sorry for my rant again.
and Marko… it is quite horrifying too that the German firm Bayer bought Mosanto. I hope they will reverse the ´damage´ done by the predecessor. But knowing these big mega corporations…. I am quite doubtful.