I see spirituality in most of what I do. To me gardening is not just a hobby or pastime, but a deep involvement with the nature around. Some form of meditation, some way of universalizing.
Yes, you have guessed it right. From today, I am going to start a new series of talks around some interesting aspects of gardening.But unlike my talks about Yoga/Spirituality/Philosophy this new series will be on every Monday 12 PM PST. I hope to discuss some of the marvelous things I have read and experimented in recent times and I am sure you would love it too.
The other series that is going on, on Wednesdays and Fridays would continue as always.
All of us survive by the food that we eat. We need carbohydrates, proteins, and fats in addition to trace amounts of minerals and vitamins. Plants too need some basic nutrition to grow, put on flowers, produce fruits, and to survive in the endless struggle for existence.
The primary nutrition that the plants need is the so-called macro nutrients namely Nitrogen, Phosphorous, and Potash – commonly called NPK. By the way, K is for Kalium – the Latin word for Potash.
To put it simply, Nitrogen is needed for vegetative growth, Phosphorous is needed for flowering and fruiting, and Potash is needed for development of a strong root system. They also need several minerals in traces – the so called micro nutrients.
Now, there are two ways of providing these to the plants. Either provide them with chemical fertilizers rich in these 3 macro nutrients, or the other way is to resort to nature. I mean use organic fertilizers.
Nowadays, everyone knows the ills of using chemical fertilizers. They are like junk food – very rich in nutrition, but poorly balanced and unhealthy. On the other hand, organic fertilizers have their own problems.
For one, organic fertilizers are bulky and difficult to handle. Unless you produce them yourself, they can be costly as well, since you need to provide lot of them to get the same yield that you would have got by using chemical fertilizers.
Is there an alternative?
Luckily there is. You neither have to buy chemical fertilizers nor produce organic fertilizers, but still you can nurture your plants with all that they need! Wonderful isn’t it? And if the source of this nutrition is endless and self-propelling, then it is no short of a miracle! All that you need to do is to just start the process. The rest, the nature takes care of.
Curious to know how such a thing is possible? Join me next week on a very interesting journey into this miraculous world of gardening, where you just mediate, and of course meditate, and things will happen on their own! Almost unattended, almost costing not even a penny. That is nature’s miracle! So, keep your eyes and ears open.
A series on new ways of Gardening. © Dr. King 2019
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