If you can imagine what might happen
to a whole field of cabbages, growing as far as you can see all
around you, should a pathogen to which that particular type of
cabbage is particularly vulnerable happen to strike, then you will
quickly be able to realise the value of a diverse field. When the
cabbage has, say, origanum and spring onions as neighbours and the
next large plant in the planting plan is a brinjal, rather than
another cabbage, then there is a barrier between our first sick
cabbage and all the others of its kind in the planting plan. This
means that although a pathogen might find its way onto one of your
cabbages, that is not to say that your entire cabbage crop will be
affected. In fact it is quite possible that some of the companion
plants around these hypothetical cabbages vulnerable to infection may
destroy the pathogen. Certainly other aspects of the bio dynamic
system will be destroying pathogens and reducing the likelihood of infections. Not only is bio dynamic soil full of the most diverse array
of micro organisms possible but the earthworms and associated
microbes at work throughout the soil will be progressively removing
or destroying pathogens as healthy germs are added to the soil. This
diverse approach, addressing both microbes and macrobes is what
creates the rock solid stable agricultural system that is
bio dynamics. Building soil rather than depleting soil.should be the
goal and diversity is what makes it possible. A diverse garden orfield, to put it simply, is worth far far more than the sum of itsparts.
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