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The Effect of Chemical Fertilisers
For years, the human race has been removing bits and pieces from the eco-system, the result has been a catastrophe.
The whole commercial agricultural world is suffering from a huge imbalance, this has been caused by the excessive use of chemical fertilisers and more harmful the huge amounts of chemical pesticides.
The Consequences of Some of Our Actions
This use of the latter, instead of improving the situation has caused the opposite effect and there has been a pest explosion, due to the imbalance of nature from continued stripping and over cropping with man made fertilisers and pest control chemicals.
By trying to ‘control’ the pests the commercial farmers are loosing sight of the real problem – the real cause of the pest problem is the serious conditions of imbalance that exist in our eco-systems.
With commercial hybrid seeds and GE modified seeds and the increase in use of stronger and stronger chemicals, fertilisers, and pesticides, the plants of today are neither healthy or strong and believe it or not mother nature knows this.
The result has been an explosion of pests, created by nature to destroy the weakling plants of today.
Mother nature is only doing her job and eradicating all the weakest of the species, after all Darwin was not wrong and it is the survival of the fittest, this helps keep natural growing plants strong, healthy and evolving over time.
When we had or indeed re-create a balanced eco-system, pests are not a problem and plants can and indeed do grow strong and healthy, as nature only uses pests to cull the sick and weak.
The Effect of Chemical Pesticides
• They are poisons, they are designed to kill and they generally do, EVERYTHING in sight
• They can also build up in the tissues of our body, causing the serious health problems that are common today. Think, was there, the high incidence of cancer in society in the days before chemicals were used on our foods, and seed were natural and not man -made?
• Research has proved that if pests are left alone, mother nature deals with the problem. By making the plants under attack produce more seeds to ensure that there is a greater chance of survival.
The Effect of Chemical Fertilisers
When artificial chemical fertilisers are used on the soil, the are dissolved by the water in the soil and are then automatically taken up by the plant roots. This is a process the plant roots cannot avoid, it is their job to gather nutrients and water.
This would not be a problem in normal circumstances, but, then these are not normal circumstances. The addition of super fertilisers results in the roots up taking far too many nutrients.
It is great for the ‘magical’ super abundant growth gardeners can see, but it’s what lies in the bit you cannot see that causes the problem. When a plant takes up too many fortified concentrated nutrients, it needs to take on board more water to dilute and balance the mix.
Unfortunately, this results in water-logged plant structures, which have very little nutrition and are weaker overall, resulting in an imbalance of natures way, so it’s back to the old pest and disease attacks again and it’s all due to this unnatural way of feeding.
I don’t want to bang on, but if I can change one persons mind, I will rest happy, it is good to know the consequences of our actions.
I think it is a part of life we often ignore, often because we think we cannot change things, especially in the larger scheme of things, but in this instance we CAN, we can ALL grow some of our own vegetables, fruits, nuts and plants in whatever small or large space we have.
I would love to see more ‘community’ vegetable gardens, like to old allotments of my youth in England. This way, everyone could pitch in, be a community, heaven forbid, speak to each other and share!!
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“It is great for the ‘magical’ super abundant growth gardeners can see, but it’s what lies in the bit you cannot see that causes the problem. When a plant takes up too many fortified concentrated nutrients, it needs to take on board more water to dilute and balance the mix.”
Well said! So often we equate the large blossoms and HUGE fruit and veggies with skilled gardening — instead it is often the use of harmful chemicals like Miracle Gro and the like. I love my worm farm and create sprays and “Miracle-Gro-like stuff” with the worm poo. It’s super! I mix it with loads of water and give my plants a nice dinner. They do just wonderfully. I may not have the biggest tomatoes or blooms this side of the Mississippi but my soil and plants are living in harmony.
Excellent post!
Blessings!
Lacy
Started gardening to kill time about 20 years ago, now I feed myself and my wife, with some left over for the neighbors each season. Canning, drying and freezing all become part of what soon becomes a way of life and the best form of free therapy available! Community gardening is great, but transportation to and from gardens can cost. Small aqua/veggie culture systems look most promising for small community development to get meat to go with eggs from chickens, the next development. Home brewing is a traditional survival skill. As the economic system of the world slowly collapses before our eyes, and we have more time to our own ends, community veggie gardening will regain appeal, and now we have the web a tremendous source of gardening knowledge, at our finger tips! This Depression will bring us together in churches and community activities as never before. We will rise from the collapse with new obligations on Capitalism and Democracies and go forward into a new, more environmentally friendly and less materialistic world, where self-sufficiency will consist of zero running cost, zero upkeep environmentally friendly homes complete with survival gardens, GMO’s designed for our gardening convenience, community brewing facilities, and the rights to use them , tax free and unencumbered.
You’re dead right and we would all be a lot better for growing our on vegetables in our own garden’s or allotments. It would not only be a great way to relax after work but also enable us to enjoy the satisfaction of growing our own food as we human’s have done for many, many centuries.
on my travels through the European country of Slovenia, I was always impressed with the inhabitants gardens – a profusion of flowers, fruit bushes and trees, vegetables, bee-hives, even in the smallest of plots, some with vines growing up walls – nearly each and every house was directly in touch with the majority of what they ate, all fortified with natural fertilisers. A truly impressive sight and one which, if it weren’t for the incessant rain, I would love to emulate here in my own garden in Wales.
A hundred years ago the cottages of the British Isles were all similar there was even a “cottage garden” design movement; it is just that in the intervening years our gardening habits have designated the garden as an “outdoor room” instead of seeing it as a useful asset to be developed for our food needs, and thus our native skills have declined as we have taken more and more on board from our “garden designers” and gone down the mall for our food needs. Do I have a downer on garden designers – no: I used to be one in another life, it is just that we maybe, need to get back on track, personally I am a fan of the Permaculture movement.
Thank you all for the comments, yes I think it’s about time we all thought about and started to be pro-active in replenishing our beautiful land. See the post on ‘Farmer John’ a real inspiration to us all.
Permaculture, is a change in mind set. I have learn’t SO many things the last few years here on the block, just because I opened my eyes and then my ears and began to work with Mother Nature and suddenly, things began to happen.
First, I worked with bamboo, to make fences, gates, and raised garden beds. Then, I stumbled upon all the FREE manure and rotting hay, a girl could want.
It seems I look at things and just know what I can do with them and I help others out by taking ‘rubbish’ off their hands and recycling it free of charge in my own environment.
Pictures are coming to help others ‘see’ what rubbish you can salvage and put to good use, Organic gardening and Permaculture is really the way to go…ask your bank manager!!!
I don’t normally comment on blogs but your post was a real help. Thank you for a great topic, I will be sure to bookmark your site and check it out again. Cheers, Amy xXx.
I really enjoy blogs like this, since I am a blog addict I will visit again soon.
Keep posting and I’ll keep coming back, thanks