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Slow Gardening Info
Can We Really Slow Down?
- Slow gardening embraces qualities like self awareness, personal responsibility and caring for the environment.
- Basically, slow gardening is totally opposite from conventional gardening techniques which involve a particular way which should be followed to achieve well kept garden.
- As people have taken every chore to be a responsibility which has to be finished, slow gardening provides relief by not taking gardening as a responsibility but enjoying the work.
- The policy of doing everything in an instant where people want fast results even if it means uprooting a tree from a nursery and planting it into garden just to give a complete look is something which is not suitable.
- Instead of uprooting a tree why not plant a seed and let it grow on it’s own pace. This way has actually been practiced by many of us and has produced wonderful results.
I remember my mother planing a kitchen garden where she had planted seeds of tomatoes, green chillies and coriander leaves. Even though it took time for tomatoes to become ripe, it was fun and relaxing. But when we followed fast gardening technique where we transplanted a tree it took many years to grow as the roots were damaged. So slow gardening was something which we preferred even though we had to start from scratch but we understood that nature took it’s own sweet time.
Origin of the Term
Slow gardening is a borrowed term that had evolved from the concept of slow food coined by Carlo Petrini in 1986 who was promoting use of local ingredients harvested in an environmental way. The basic idea behind this concept was creating interest in slow foods rather than opting for fast foods which were unhealthier to eat. Also encourage growing of foods and enhance interest of present generations in preserving the concept of cooking and presentation methods as stated by their respective society. Slow gardening means planting young plants, saplings, cuttings or grafts and seeds, and relaxing the changing features of garden as it grows from infant to a mature one. The establishment of instant garden which required to be fed with chemical compounds was completely avoided. Also, enhanced use of Eco-pest control methods rather than chemical pest control methods are used.
Slow gardening does not mean organic gardening but growing what you like to enjoy and would love to take care of in the near future. It’s not a check lists which has to be completed by a given deadline but it’s using more of hands on approach and encouraging creativity in you. Like slow cooking is considered as the best cooking in which all the flavors come out and are more appetizing than ready to eat food available in the market. As slow cooking methods preserve vitamins, aromas and minerals so does slow gardening preserve the plants by helping them grow at their own rate.
This type of gardening doesn’t promote show gardens but gardens accentuating convenience of the gardener. As we tend to look into our watches and effectively decide on the time we spent in our chores, this chore should have no time dedication but more of will dedication. So try to plant what you really like rather than a conventional landscape design. In the end, it is time we really take things slowly for a change.
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Why are healthy foods more expensive than cheap, processed ones?
Is this why America is so fat? Because when you go to a store, the healthy, organic style foods are higher priced than the man-made processed stuff. Doesn’t it cost more to make up fake food than to grow a garden? Why isn’t the good fruits and vegitables cheaper than the canned corn and instant mashed potatoe like stuff?
well, um, lets go with some produce, health, non treated produce doesn’t have the preservatives on it or was subjected to pesticides, so less of it was brought to market because some of it is just plain bad, got infested with bugs, or died to plant diseases.
Processed produce however was treated with pesticides, given specific treatments for curing disease, and shot up with growth so they would grow much bigger much faster. This results in more of it making it to the market and at faster rates.
Preservatives play a big role in sealed items as well. Since the only natural preservatives are acids and salt, the health food stuff stays on shelf much less longer then things like a Twinkies which lasts forever. (I know a Twinkies won’t last forever, but you get the idea)
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