How To Touch Plants:Garden

[DirtMechanic]

Physically touching a garden plant personally is possibly the most energy consuming thing one can do in a garden post digging. I wonder what it means to use less energy and be effective, but not include that golden moment called harvesting.

For example spraying? u get the fertilizer or the bug spraying. These are.small gardens on this site. How do you get those plants to where you can pick them without killing your back in the process?

 

[Meadowlark]

Physically touching a garden plant personally is possibly the most energy consuming thing one can do in a garden post digging.

I need an explanation please ^^^^ Maybe it's just me but this seems ridiculous on the face of it.

I wonder what it means to use less energy and be effective, but not include that golden moment called harvesting.

There are many many instances in my gardening where I do not harvest or rather harvest very little. For example, a fundamental technique I use to replenish depleted garden soils without synthetics is to shred a mature legume plant and enable it to regenerate from seed on its own each generation adding Nitrogen to the soils and valuable other nutrients.

I've done 4 generations of cow peas in one growing season using only a handful of seeds in this manner. It is highly effective. That is what I call a "golden moment". A handful of seeds costing less than $5 , highly effective, minimal energy required from the gardener, and "No N, P, K " recommendations from the soil test.

Further, I would add that the basic tenant of cover cropping does not involve harvesting but the "golden moment" is replenishment of soil without the need for any synthetics. It is magic in my view.