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June 2012

Day	Topic	Tip	Photo	Photo caption	More
5	Integrated garden	What is an integrated garden? It is a garden with a variety of different plants, medicinal plants, herbs, flowers, leaf vegetables, root vegetables, berry bushes, etc. Each plant species has its own energy and also receives typical energies from the cosmos and the earth and all that is around. Flowers receive other energies than roots. Plants can mutually enrich one another in the sense of energies. Crops grown in such a garden have better nurturing elements for your spiritual well-being.		Sweet William & foxglove, garlic, cabbage, potatoes	Spiritual aspects of gardening
3	Mulching	In nature healthy soils are covered, either with green plants or with leaf litter. Covered soil has a crumbly texture, allows water to pass through and is a rich environment for many micro-organisms that need oxygen. Soil under a layer of mulch will seldom dry out. In our garden we can copy this natural condition by sowing green manure plants on empty fields, or covering them with a layer of mulch. For mulch we can use hay or straw or also any other natural material. You can also cover the soil with mulch in-between bigger plants, such as berry bushes and larger perennials.		Leaves make natural mulch	Mulching
2	Bees in the garden	"Bees play an important role in pollinating flowering plants, and are the major type of pollinator in ecosystems that contain flowering plants. Bees either focus on gathering nectar or on gathering pollen depending on demand, especially in social species. Bees gathering nectar may accomplish pollination, but bees that are deliberately gathering pollen are more efficient pollinators. It is estimated that one third of the human food supply depends on insect pollination, most of which is accomplished by bees, especially the domesticated European honey bee."		A swarm of bees	Pollination
1	Sowing	"Prepare the surface earth well, to make a good seed-bed. Plant when the ground is moist, if possible, and preferably just before a rain... For shallow-planted seeds, firm the earth above them by walking over the row or by patting it down with a hoe [I usually do it with the back side of a rake, or with my hand]. Special care should be exercised not to sow very small and slow-germinating seeds, as celery, carrot, onion, in poorly prepared soil or in ground that bakes.		The photo shows little holes made with a board with bumps for sowing radish seeds. I cover them with lava gravel or fine soil.	Sowing

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