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….and up to the perennial beds.<\/p>\n Which means someone needs to do the weeding.\u00a0 Around the melon patch….<\/p>\n ….the peppers….<\/p>\n ….the green beans….<\/p>\n ….the corn….<\/p>\n ….the eggplant….<\/p>\n ….and the okra.<\/p>\n Never mind the herbs….<\/p>\n ….and the flowers.<\/p>\n The problem is that “someone” to do the weeding always turns out to be me.\u00a0 And I can’t summon the energy to weed when so much of the garden will be transferred to the greenhouse and the soil turned over for fall crops next month.\u00a0 I mean, what’s the point?<\/p>\n I have put the boys on weed duty and I suppose they doing their best work.<\/p>\n If their “best work” means eating the beans and the peppers.<\/p>\n \n Which puts the way the guineas like to eat the onions to shame.<\/p>\n I’m pretty sure the critters I have fenced in the garden are as bad as the critters I have fenced out.<\/p>\n So I prepared to pull weeds by hand.\u00a0 Because who wants veggies and flowers drowning in horseweed, choked by lespedeza, smothered by signal grass?\u00a0 Unless….hmmmmm…….<\/p>\n \n Woodland Pond Farm is pleased to introduce:<\/p>\n Free Range Gardening.<\/strong><\/p>\n Mary, Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow?<\/em><\/p>\n Is it sterile and bare?\u00a0 Are there dirt rows everywhere?<\/em><\/p>\n Are your plants exposed to full sun—-to shrivel and fade,<\/em><\/p>\n With no friendly greenery to provide a bit of root shade?<\/em><\/p>\n Are their leaves and produce subject to attack,<\/em><\/p>\n from every little bug seeking a snack?<\/em><\/p>\n Is there nothing natural or native to share their growing space?<\/em><\/p>\n Is your garden a debilitated and unhealthy place?<\/em><\/p>\n Well, not here!\u00a0 Woodland Pond’s produce and flowers are grown <\/strong>Free Range<\/span>!\u00a0 That’s right, all our plants are raised in combination with spontaneously occurring flora.\u00a0 Our weeding and herbicide free fields have resulted in the ultimate symbiotic relationship between fruitful plants and natural varieties of greenery.\u00a0 Why have we developed this easy<\/span> lazy<\/span> unique approach to gardening?<\/strong><\/p>\n The extreme biodiversity provides food and cover for beneficial insects while simultaneously providing a trap crop for sheep and guineas<\/span> those bugs that would destroy the harvest.<\/strong><\/p>\n Disparate root development by a variety of plant species prevents soil compaction, is cheaper than mulch,<\/span> and inhibits erosion under heavy rainfall conditions.<\/strong><\/p>\n A mixture of broad and narrow leaf structure, as well as both vining and sprawling plant characteristics, helps to hide<\/span> camouflage<\/span> shelter crops as they develop, preventing over harvesting and, therefore, providing a continuous yield over the season. Let’s not forget that all this lush greenery provides a haven for indigenous insect and animal populations.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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