Please watch the movie "The Beautiful Fantastic". It really encourages the spiritual side of gardening, and is a heart moving movie.
@bluebelle I never met a racist potato. You are so right!!!
I recently had the pleasure of seeing ' This Beautiful Fantastic ' and loved it!!
That's so cool that you found it too, and thank you for sharing something so uplifting that everyone can feel the love from ...
Man, does everyone on this forum need it right now... a little respite!
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PS... (' This Beautiful Fantastic ' on YouTube free of charge)
Even more so, ever since i had that visit from the Dandelion deva.
@unk-p, did you write about this visit anywhere on the forum? I am a huge fan of the work of the Findhorn garden founders & of anyone who speaks with plant devas.
Hi @firstcat. I think you were responding to me.... The "perennials" moniker was a bit of a tongue in cheek description of my vineyard: Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec, Tempranillo, Sangiovese and Roussane wine grapes We're in Los Ranchos, NM, a village on the north side of Albuquerque. I would hold off on the dipel. There are plenty of much less toxic ways of dealing with pests IF you need to.
@firstcat Sorry, I misspoke about the Dipel in the previous post. I confused it with some other pesticide. Apparently it is BT which is about the least toxic pesticide you can find. It is a bacteria that is very specifically targeted to just moth forming caterpillars, like tomato worms.
sorry i didn't respond sooner- i just had to get away from everything for awhile @firstcat @stargazer here is a link to the movie "This Beautiful Fantastic"- free on youtube (but with commercials): https://youtu.be/G8yhL0lcQ5g Thanks for recommending it. Looking forward to watching it!
@frank -so you are growing your own groceries and your own wine? oh, wait- wine is groceries, hehheh
@pikake this happened when i was thinking of pulling up this big crop of dandelions that had popped up in my yard in SF. The dandelion deva showed up to remind me that everything has a purpose. And that everything was, and is, created in a spirit of love and complete innocence.
I read recently that even roaches have made a crucial contribution to the planet. Researchers have discovered that roaches- over the course of millions of years- have made enough nitrogen available on Earth to allow for plants to grow here. So we kind of owe our lives to roaches.
So now i don't pull up dandelions. And if a roach gets in the house, i try to catch it and put it back outside. Unless the cats get it first, and then it's "sorry, dude, or dudette".
And that everything was, and is, created in a spirit of love and complete innocence.
@unk-p That was lovely, thank you. Yes, all life has a purpose. After reading the books by Dorothy MacLean, one of the co-founders of Findhorn, I catch & release bugs but like you, if the cats get to it first, then I have to trust to the circle of life. It was in MacLean books that I was first introduced to the devas and how to co-create with them. I still don’t have a green thumb when it comes to orchids but have managed to keep my potted plants alive for several years. Yay!!
A small-town nursery owner is having a mid-life crisis, and decides he needs to do something different to shake him out of his funk, so he decides he's going to run across his state. Small town, so word of his plans gets out, and the townspeople gather to see him off.
He says goodbye and takes off down the road, and one of the townspeople yells out, "Run, florist! Run!"