Does a garden puke? Have you seen a garden puke? Should a garden puke?
Puke or Defecate depending on where your standing in forms such as mud, water throughflow and leeching. 🤮
No-dig gardens often retain a measure of water and drain excess at a steady rate. This means they puke less but digest thier input. This is mostly a big advantage except when it comes to toxins.
This is where no-dig methods need to pay vital attention to thier garden input as these gardens accumulate and ideally do not puke! This leads to plants potentially containing on them or in them a harmful chemical.
Chemicals are not necessarily going to kill us and generally our bodies balance themselves (even by puking). However there are toxic concentrations and inorganic versions we need to avoid.
Here are some inputs that can cause toxic concentrations or introduce inorganic harmful chemicals;
Some timber, some plastics, pesticides, herbicides, ocassionally manure, occassionally soil and compost, even mulch and also some forms of garden sterilisation such as burning.
Pretty much everything 😅 but when you take time to setup the garden the materials to purchase or use can all be caringly sourced. Garden communities are particularly useful in this!
If you would like some help or ideas please contact me i can share my alternatives or material sources i have used with you. Or if you have ideas on reliable suppliers in your area comment on this post.
A healthy garden means less plumbing bills!
Treadit Gardens 