How to grow plants and not weeds.
The soil always tries to cover itself with something. You can fight it or give it what it needs.
The argument often looks like this,
Me: Ground, i want you to grow this plant as i do not like or cant eat your plants. So i will take your plants away and plant some seeds. In the process i will also cultivate and make you softer.
Ground: I will work for you but I will have no protection and can not hold onto my nutrients so i will grow your plants and whatever else i can to survive and i will become hard again.
Me: What are these other plants doing here? I cant eat them and will constantly need to remove them so my plants do well, i will also need to loosen the soil again by working hard or i will have no food!
Ground: Give me seeds for me to grow along with food and clothes. If you pay me with these i will work for you! You will only need to direct me and i will grow for you.
So i can choose how to pay my garden and expect the garden to work well if i care for it and maintain it.
Mulching and replacing what is taken from the garden is a fair exchange and will lead to specific garden growth. This means the plants you plant will be specifically grown and the garden will work for you specifically.
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