Someone has nicked my bath!

We had saved our bath, when we decided to rip out the bathroom, for taking to the allotment ready to collect rain water in.  We reckoned it would be cheaper and less nickable than a water butt, and probably easier to collect rain water in. We hadn’t thought that someone would nick it before we had managed to get it over there! Gutted about this, and they nicked the other metal bits, which we were also saving to recycle, that is a recession for you!

Back to soil anyway, which is my pet subject at the moment, the other thing is urine therapy, but I am not sure you are ready for this yet? Comment and let me know, anyway the compost heap is about half the size it has been, and it stinks. R is putting all the crayfish bits in, and it is honking the whole length of the garden. This is good, as all this is truly organic natural matter, nothing better for making our soil really nutrient rich, although not vegan unfortunately! You have to take good care of your soil, piling on organic materials to make a strong soil for strong plants, which don’t need chemical fertilisers or pesticides. The less we kill everything in the soil, the more we are working with it, helping the bacteria and micro organisms which are the life blood. Those farmers are essentially chemical junkies, and are making our produce be the same, then remember that we consume it, are we surprised our health on a national level is reducing? Any junkies health would be bad when you think about it?

The other thing is that we are killing off in any way we can the bacteria around us, has anyone considered how important it is at times, and how we might actually need some of it? Many of these bacteria are part of a breaking down process which is needed to enable the plants to grow, farmers are killing off the fungi in the soil which could prevent disease from happening to their crops, how do they do this? They do it by using fungicide.

A lot of this doesn’t make any sense to me, why people can’t see how we are ruining the very environment we need to live in, and our best asset, our bodies on a daily basis, and choose cheap, over long healthy living is just beyond me. Oh and whoever nicked my bath can I have it back please?

Worms!

It’s been a wet day so we didn’t end up going to the allotment in the end, a wash out, but I have instead learnt about how important worms and other bacteria are as vital organic compost for ensuring that the soil, and plants are nutrient rich. It is these bacteria that enable the plants to grow, by helping to breakdown the matter in soil for the plant to use, this then becomes nutrient rich soil supplying them with the rich nutrients which help them to become strong pest resistant plants.

So now it makes lots of sense that if the chemical pesticides are killing everything off, how on earth can the microbes and organisms survive? The onslaught of chemical farming is stopping our plants ultimately from growing into mineral rich food for ourselves, as they are weak, and have to have pesticides to stop predators from eating them. If the organisms are no longer in the soil to break down the matter, and on top of that, the fertiliser is now a chemical one which isn’t anywhere near as usable to the plant, and for us in the long run to use. Then does it surprise anyone that the soil and the plants each year become more and more dependant on chemicals to try and replace what they are losing. When the answer for me is easy, feed the soil properly with proper compost, and fertiliser and stop using chemicals which are killing off the very things that we need to be healthy.

Each day, even with the bad weather I know I am doing the best for my body, it keeps me healthy in so many ways.