Living Mulch in the Garden Part 2: Ecological Gardening - One Heart Fire

This video is a follow-up to the "Living Mulch in the Garden" video and shows the progress in the garden after about six weeks of implementing the technique.

The living mulch, made up of wood sorrel and clover, provides a nice support for the plants and helps maintain a healthy environment. It also acts as an ecological balance by inviting predators to control pests.

No, using pesticides to kill off pests can also harm beneficial insects like ladybugs. It is better to create a balanced environment by providing hiding places for predators and allowing them to naturally control pest populations.

In a slow-growing environment like this garden, minimal maintenance is needed. Thinning may be required to give plants more room to grow, but the main maintenance is the harvesting of edible leaves.

Cultivating edible leaves provides a multi-functional garden where maintenance becomes harvesting. This practice is called stacking functions, where every action in the garden serves more than one purpose.

One example is cutting back some of the plants to give them more room to grow, which also provides a salad for the gardener to eat. This way, the maintenance of thinning the plants becomes a harvest of edible leaves.

Yes, maintaining a balanced environment is important for the overall health of the garden. It allows for natural pest control and promotes the growth of plants by providing a supportive living mulch.