Creatures

Should creatures be in your garden?

Last year i made really nice gardens for people and found one particular creature caused the most problems in my type of garden bed, this was the cabbage butterfly.

This is because they can fly and get over all my obstacles in the garden and aim straight for the leaf of the cabbage!

So there are two ways to solve this issue….

– preventative ways (treatments or obstacles)
– reductive ways (balancing the imbalanced)

Generally creatures need to be present in a cycle of life (even Cimba gets eaten in the end). This cycle balances the amounts of creatures out. Are we prepared to eat insects? We could/should but we probably wont. So we need something else to eat the imbalances of insects in our gardens.

How to balance out this unbalance?

One way is BIRDS! We need birds, either our birds or wild birds to take care of the garden.

Our birds (ducks and chickens) eat certain plants in the garden but they can be supervised or directed.

Wild birds however eat butterflies and other airborn imbalances so the more of them, the less of a problem.

How do we get wild birds? Food and habitat. The hedge at the garden edge can do more than stop a football. In nature things all grow together but our gardens need this too!

If we encourage birds then we can put another piece of nature back in our gardens.