Sunday, August 17, 2008

Planting Partners - the start of the relationship

Welcome!
This is the beginning of what I hope will be a shared journey with you to look at some of the amazing new ways of thinking, increasingly surfacing, which are shaping how we think of and relate to plants. How can this make our gardens, farms, and lives, better?
Though some of the thinking seems very lofty and esoteric, or just plain 'out there', it is increasingly backed up by advances in such scientific areas as Quantum Mechanics, and fits in with what the Eastern Philosophers and Yogis have been saying for thousands of years.
But really it is very down to earth, and actually translates into something that we already know instinctively but may be a bit rusty at - listening to our 'gut feelings', and re-learning how to use and trust them to help us take in useful information from our living environment.
To test all this theory out I will be planting a brand new vegetable garden, working with Nature, using the techniques explored in the book list on this page and elsewhere, new ideas I've stumbled over in my own garden, and incorporating your ideas too, so start sending them in! I'll upload pictures of the 'virgin patch' shortly.
It will be a first time effort trying some of them out for me, and with your help and suggestions we can see how this all works in practice.
I'm looking forward to hearing from all of you out there as we work out what it means to be Planting Partners with Nature, and see how we can apply the knowledge we gain for the benefit of our gardens, the plants, ourselves and our planet.
Happy Gardening!
The Intuitive Gardener
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