2 Garden Lessons
The reward is a harvest that is as lush as possible, the important goal of every self-sufficient gardener. Bernard sits down in the dark of winter and sorts the seeds for the coming spring: the good ones go in the pot, the bad ones in the cooking pot. At least with the bush beans. Of course there are also those moments when there is no better way to slow down than when weeding. Or at daybreak the plowing of the earth becomes more like meditation and you don't want to do anything else until the end of your days. However, to reduce gardening to that is akin to still clinging to Rousseau's view of the savages in the jungle today.gartenlehrer For me, gardening has always been a silent protest against the compulsive consumption and materialism of this world; against the imposed rush of the global 5G mentality; against alienation from Mother Earth; against those who want to talk me out of eating a wild boar steak from the local forest while at the same time singing the praises of avocado, a fruit whose production and supply chain result in a sad ecological footprint. In any case, it would be wrong to charge gardeners with a political attitude. No time for stroking herbs crop rotation. plant neighborhood. Heavy, medium or weak consumers. moon phases. seed time. Fertilization. compost care. tillage. vegetable storage. beneficials. Cat and pest control. seed production. Varieties. All of this is part of the obligatory program of a garden owner who means business. There is no time left for stroking herbs and singing about salads. One of the urgent questions that arises from the project of Vergeat and Co.: What kind of soil do you expect in the quarters that have been settled for many decades? Bernard recounts that it took him twenty years to turn a field of rocks into a decent garden that could produce nice crops. The soil is a microcosm. Incidentally, this is also reported by Wolf-Dieter Storl, who has many followers among plant lovers and who writes great books about herbs, nature, gardens and shamanism. And: who exactly should monitor and oversee the development in these community gardens and be responsible for it? Vergeat cements the impression that, once again, it's all about lifestyle by suggesting that the city gardening center should "take the lead". Self-sufficiency thrives on "self", and almost all municipal counter-proposals have failed sooner or later. Advising gardeners is definitely not a government task.