I don't blame you for being annoyed. First I've heard about homeopathy for gardens. [g] And yes, the native craze is just that a little crazy. Intense. I can understand people thinkng that if everyone would just revert their gardens to what was orignially here, it would bring back the ecological balance. But the reasoning behind it is very sketchy. And a native enthusiast told me once, that people are not part of the ecology. lol. Well, there is where they completely go off the track. People have to live on the earth too. And they have to eat, and grow and usually raise animals. And all of that has always been in conflict with the little critters that they want to invite into everyone's yard with native plants and pretty tolerant practices. If you want to grow food, you are defeating yourself before you start to go about it this way.

I've gardened organically for 40 years and I feel that protects the pollinators and rabbits love my yard, unfortunately. Growing food with rabbits all over the place is so much harder. Not to mention moles and voles and chipmunks.

The planet is overpopulated with people. Habitat is destroyed to make living spaces for people. Corporations have been poisoning the water and the land. Where ever we went wrong along the way, I don't believe anyone has all the answers to fix it. I still think it is great to try to restore the ecology of your property. Some people have properties that can really benefit from that. And I grow natives, just not exclusively.

thanks prairiemoon,

better now, I guess, what really stressed me out was, that at first glance it looked like a good project, but after getting more details I had a severe stomach ache - kind of- that I just could not stand behind the ideas. Now that I arrived at a simple: no cant do, it feels much better...

yes, the discussion is ongoing, what would work to safe "just nature" or the earth itself.

I personally garden organically as well, I just think that a well organized garden is easier to maintain. And I always try to add good pollinator plants like new Umbellifers species to my plantings.

Just last week I had to comment a detailed plant list, like which are natives, non-natives, where from, food source for invertabrae etc.

I am really well informed by now, I only tend to despair when meeting those black-and-white-folks with too little knowledge and no real interest in a debate about details.

Have a good start of the week,

bye, Lin

Makes perfect sense that thinking you were going to do it and having to change your mind would be stressful. Glad you have it all worked out. Finally, we are due with some warm weather this week, hope you have a good weather week too. I am quite behind this spring and need to get much busier to try to catch up. Happy Spring!

Holy mackerel! Not sure how I avoided hearing about this outlandish drivel until now! Homeopathy for gardens indeed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodynamic_agriculture

I only had about 5 minutes of skimming that before I made myself start climbing out of the rabbit hole. The ideas sound like they were gleaned from a rejected script for a 1960s Star Trek episode.