Governing Your Garden

Your job in having a natural garden is to behave like a government should behave in an enlightened society. The basic principles are to nurture in a way that is self-sustaining and encourages growth. Any government cannot tax its subjects too much or growth will be inhibited. The life gardener helps with the natural process of seed distribution. It's where we can be of most help to plants because we are mobile and they are not. Spreading of seed increases by a very great factor, annual plants ability to thrive enough, so that they can be taxed  for your consumption. Taxing too much in the early growth stages can stunt growth of the whole garden. There are myriads of subtleties in an ecosystem. You can't possibly know them all. You set up a system that encourages survival of the best and fittest. ie when taxing a life garden that has not reached maturity you should restrict yourself to eating the less vigorous and less productive plants. You then also help with the distribution of the seed of the most desirable and vigorous plants. Nourishing the garden is another thing that we have to offer the living garden so that it is comfortable being taxed. Compost, mulch, poo, minerals etc. Forget about chemicals and poisons. Even natural poisons can build up in the bodies of predators and kill them. Editing is best carried out along with any collecting of food in the garden. Whenever you are in the garden look around. Any weeds you see pull them out there and then. This way weeding is distributed and not a chore. It also familiarises you with your garden and the plants in it. You see what is going on in the ecosystem of your garden. You get the chance to see pest infections from the start. Watch its progress as predators breed up to feed on the increased food supply. It's very important to get weeds before they go to seed, but there's no rush before that. Your ecosystem should include a wide variety of places where predators can breed and find shelter and food. A good government encourages all things that could be self-sustaining and beneficial. A good government only discourages those things that have proven themselves to be seriously bad for the community. A good government gives potentially bad things the benefit of the doubt until such time as they have proven themselves to cause problems. Editing can be minimal and is mostly limited to culling of those vegies with lower survival skills and lower productivity. A good government will provide a wide variety of conditions that are conducive to growth, plant a lot of seeds, do a bit of editing, add some nourishment, take some tax. Don't be a greedy dictator, allow the plants to live and thrive in their own way. It can be a symbiotic relationship between the government and the governed. You and your vegie garden can enter into a symbiotic relationship. You help each other and both benefit.