The natural garden

It is a garden without chemical fertilizers, no pesticides or chemicals based on the natural defenses of plants, well distributed, protect each other.

This garden is based on soil quality, water management and the association of plants. Enrich soil with compost will give the required nutrients. This is an indispensable element in natural gardening. You can also use manure, wood ash.

It is well to set up a flowering meadow where living beings will find useful refuge. We must find a balance between space and serviced areas "wild". Prefer materials such as stones, sand, tiles, bricks ......

Choose plants and vegetables resistant and opt for natural organic mulch to prevent weeds. In impervious areas, you can kill weeds with boiling water simply. Mulching also helps retain moisture in the soil and protect from frost.

Keep pests

Destroy pests by introducing their natural predators. Thus, the hedgehog likes snails and caterpillars. Amphibians such as toads eat slugs, insects and larvae. Insects such as beetles attacks the aphids among others. Birds like the robin, the blackbird, magpie or chickadees rid of insects and larvae. Some plants such as spurge or the imperial crown away moles.

Mixing of cultures

Rotate crops to renew soil fertility. Plant a different species in each plot. Practice the buddy system or combination of crops that offers mutual protection. Thus, between carrots celery can combat the leek moth. Basil and parsley and tomatoes protect repel flies and mosquitoes. The slugs away fennel salad (watch as it is quite harmful to other plants to grow isolated) and chataire (nepeta cataria) flea beetles. The eyelets of India planted with tomatoes, cabbage, beans, leeks, potato whitefly away. The onion carrot flies away. Thyme repels cabbage pierids. White Dead Nettle is against CPB. Me-nots near raspberry preserves raspberry worm. And so, many natural associations exist. Make your own tests and associations, and why not record them in a notebook. To each his own tricks and secrets of gardening ....

It is also preferable to use natural plant extracts that are rich in trace elements, bio-stimulants and environmentally friendly. So you can make manure nettles, bracken and comfrey which is used as fertilizer and pest hunting or using algae.

Make a natural garden is not complicated. Just adopt the right techniques by observing natural processes, finding a balance with nature (you will find species such as glow-worms or grubs). Enjoy and fruits, vegetables and herbs sometimes forgotten by respecting your environment and recreating an entire micro universe in your garden .... And do not forget your straw hat in the summer! Happy gardening!