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Healthy Plants don’t get disease. The same goes for the Human Body.

Healthy soil feeds the plants. Just like the body, if the plants get the right nutrients, they will be able to fight off any disease.

When you treat a disease with a chemical, you may kill the disease, but the underlying condition that created the weakness, allowing the disease, is most likely still present. It will just manifest itself as another disease or symptom.

When you create health through nutrition, the plant will become strong and its immune system, which is more capable and nuanced at fighting disease than any chemical, will eliminate the disease naturally. The plant is now using the disease-fighting mechanism that Mother Nature gave it and that science cannot recreate artificially.

Don’t forget that using chemicals comes with many health hazards for you, the microorganisms in the soil, and the wildlife.

Microorganisms in the soil, in the human body and in all of life are so very critical for health.

Why are the good bacteria important?

* Healthy bacteria are essential for any type of immune system to be strong and fight off disease and infection.

* Healthy bacteria are essential for delivering life sustaining
nutrients to all forms of life, including our horticulture.

* Healthy bacteria are the first step to absorbing essential nutrients.

* Healthy bacteria aid in the defense of pests and fungal attacks
without the use of any chemicals.

An organic, biodynamic plant food preparation, cultured or fermented to contain microorganisms, is wonderful for restoring the nutrients in the soil and feeding the earthworms that help keep the soil healthy.

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Under Edward I the mediaeval prosperity of the English may be said to have culminated. It declined under the weak or warlike reigns of his successors, until during the Wars of the Roses much that civilization had gained seemed to have been lost. The Tudor accession brought the Wars of the Roses to an end and inaugurated a new epoch.

The sites of new dwellings were not chosen based on inaccessibility like those of the castles. Now, instead of seeking a defensible position, people preferred situations that were pleasant and salubrious, where they might live protected from the cold winds, and where gardens and orchards might be cultivated advantageously. Thus, like the earlier monastic edifices, a gentleman’s house was more often built in a valley than on a hilltop. There was more room for expansion, and near the house the grounds under cultivation could be extended to answer the increasing demands for various kinds of plantations.

At first both house and gardens still seem to have been protected not only by walls, but with a moat. Such was the residence of Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, at
Thornbury. From a 1521 description (which is all that remains of the gardens now) it appears that the gardens were well supplied with galleries and arbors, or, as they are quaintly entitled, “roosting-places.”

Gradually, battlements, moats, and other defensive accessories ceased to
be built in connection with the house, and were retained only to secure the gardens
from intruders and for the preservation of the trees and plants from severe winds and
the depredations of marauders. Cardinal Wolsey’s palace and grounds at Hampton Court were among the last to be made secure by moats as well as walls. It was in these gardens that the cardinal was accustomed to walk at the close of day as he recited even-song. His fondness for this recreation and the beauty of the gardens (which were located near the Pond Garden, and no longer exist) were well noted by his disciple, Cavendish.

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gnomes would help in the garden and are were very skilled with plants. It’s no wonder that they are strongly associated with gardens today. In the mid-1800′s a man named Philipp Griebel created the first garden gnome. In the town Grafenroda, Germany, he turned these myths into terracotta statues, so that people could bring some of the magic to their own garden.

The popularity of gnomes spread to the United Kingdom in 1847, when Sir Charles Isham brought 21 figures back from Germany to decorate his garden. Out of those 21 only 1 remain intact. “Lampy”, as he is called, is insured for 1 million pounds.

Griebel’s ancestors still make gnomes today, but the majority of the production comes from manufacturers in Poland or China. There is some slight controversy regarding garden gnomes, some people think that they distract from the appearance of a garden. For example, the Chelsea garden show in London, England has banned garden gnomes. This has cause some people to call them classist snobs, since gnomes are very popular in the working classes garden.

Whether or not you like these classic or not, there is no denying that they are a very popular piece of decor for the garden.

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