They are OK, as for now. I went back to the gardens today and to my surprise that no real harms were done to two gardens. The one by a very busy intersection was simply untouched. The surrounding of the garden were nicely mowed and it looks so good. The one within a neighborhood full of abandoned house also survived without much serious destruction. I am grateful.
potato rows
Potato rows are looking so good!
This is the garden within the neighborhood fill with abandoned houses
There were couples of foot print on the garden!
even though the gardens were not destroyed, I think I am going to return them back to nature. It means that I will no longer consuming gasoline and waters to help them grow. It means I will no longer weed around them and destroy native plants. I am going to let the nature take it back. I am going to let them fight their own battle with the weeds and take care their own survive with the unpredictable rain patterns and weather. As I blogged yesterday about my internal conflict about if I should continue to consume more energy and water to grow vegetation that I do not need to survive and I had decided that I do need to plant and in order to return many of the wasted private land back to the nature. But I decided to no longer to intervene with nature and let the plants to grow on its own odd and chance with nature. I decided no longer to create, in a sense, my own habitat (by growing food that I can gather later, which is a very unrealistic picture of our habitat of today), within the human habitat that I was trying so hard to experiment with. So I will continue to plant the seeds and return our wasted private land back to nature, but I will no long water or fertilize them with any human effort. I hope by doing so I will more true to the core idea and core intention of the project.
It is truly troublesome to me yesterday as I realized that one of the biggest components of my project, which is the gardening project, might be proven to be unnecessary and needed to be eliminated. But I have to do what I have to do to continue to be true to the experiment. If you have any comments, please do so. I will greatly appreciate it.
The garden is safe from man, and now we just have to wait and see can it survive within the law of this nature.
Thanks for tuning in!!!
Patrick
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2 comments:
That's really great that you thought about the energy it takes to produce those plants versus the benefits to growing them, and the idea you put out that weeds are a native species.
That was something I was wondering about when I was learning about your guerilla gardenin your energy output versus input and how practical it was.
So many of us want to view nature as this unchanging thing, you know? Like the way we take care of our lawns: we trim them, water them so they stay really green, put in pesticides that kill naturally growing dandelions...all so we can have a nicely trimmed lawn that has little real purpose in the bigger ecosystem. I'm really glad you talked about giving those spaces you gardened back to nature.
Keep up your struggles to learn and enlightening us with the blog! It's great to read about and comment on. You give lots of fodder for discussions!
Thanks kat!!!
I am so glad you find this blog interesting and enlightening!!! I am so glad that you understand and agree with me because it was truly a challenge for me to decide if I want to give up the gardening part of my project as it is one of the biggest part of it. But I am glad you agree with me and support my decision.
SO I been instead gardening, I been learning about all the edible wild plants around us in our own city and neighborhood... you will be surprise how many is there for us to eat!!!
Thanks again for supporting me in all the ways you do, Kat! It truly means a lot to me.
Thanks!!!
Keep in touch!!!
Patrick
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