"Each one has his own most real thing. Mine is the garden."
- Louisa Yeomans King
- Louisa Yeomans King
"People who spend a great deal of time in their gardens attest to the natural mindfulness that gardening requires. What could be more naturally mindful than weeding? It requires a great deal of sustained attention. Weeds need to be taken up with care: Pull too hard, and the weed breaks in your fingers, leaving the root to grow and spread. Different weeds need different techniques and, sometimes, tools. When we weed our gardens, we have to pay attention to where and how we walk and bend. Move too far in one direction or another, and we'll squash growing things."
- Sura Lama Das, "Awakening to the Sacred"
- Sura Lama Das, "Awakening to the Sacred"
From the looks of the picture below, we have some weeding to do this weekend.
Are you carefully and systematically weeding out your non-productive habits?
What are you more "real things?"
Lifestyle Advice for Wise Persons
Here in Taiwan, I watch a group of people doing perma-culture, awaiting their results before changing my old system of organic gardening with weeding.
ReplyDeleteStill not really informed on this European methode, you hearded of?
I am not familiar with the method of which you speak.
ReplyDeleteI use straw as a mulch in our vegetable gardens. Our climate in Red Bluff is very hot during the daytime, our humidity is very low, and we have little or no rain from May to October. Straw mulching and constantly pulling weeds is our technique. I avoid putting weeds with seeds in the compost pile.
Yes, probably nearly the same we do over here, just the rainy seasons seem to be up-side-down, wet from May to Sept, dry with still 60% humidity the rest, when we are more active. So our growing circle will start rather soon, first bringing in straw mulch, then prepare planting, with tomatoes around Christmas.
ReplyDeleteIn perma-culture they cover all earth, and it seems they do not pull the weeds, what would be interesting for a change, although weeding is very meditational for me. Best for your speedy recovery, but please be patient.
We plant seeds and seedlings pretty close together in our "sunny garden" for vegetables. We don't leave a lot of room for weeds to grow. It makes picking the vegetables a bit of a hassle, but helps to keep the weeds down.
ReplyDeleteTending a garden is definitely a form of meditation for me.
I'm moving very slowly and carefully lately, no sweating, no lifting, and lots of quiet reading as I recuperate. Very very gentle Qigong and Taijiquan. Keeping a positive attitude about not having a recurrence of the hematoma.