I Have a big garden in my backyard. I have lovely seasonal fruit trees in my garden. Once a year, I invite my postgraduate class and research scholars to a party. Students have a lot of fun with seasonal fruits. They love to observe# green lush of my beautiful fruit trees.
I am in the habit of #raking dried leaves from my garden every week and use this for making organic manure. It involves a lot of labor and hard work. But it's lovely to get beautiful organic manure after one year.
In short, I believe in recycling dried fallen leaves.
One day, I fell asleep. I saw many butterflies, moths, salamanders, chipmunks, and worms near my bed. I was taken aback. I said, Welcome to my home, dear small animal species. Good to see you all in the group.
They said, "Madam, we want to make our humble request to you. Madam, you are #raking dry leaves of your garden where we little species, have the good fortune to live in ecosystems of dry leaves. These fallen leaves from trees of your garden create a natural layer for us butterflies, moths, chipmunks, toads and tiny worms and other species.So please don't use dry leaves for making organic manure for your garden."
I asked the small animal species, "Please educate me on how to save my ecosystem. There is a problem with me, I wish to give a clean look to my garden. Suddenly, all the small species of my garden disappeared. I could hear the alarm bell. I realized it is time to go to the kitchen-----..
That dream has given a big assignment. How to help small animal species in my garden so that they could enjoy their life in a dry leaves ecosystem, but at the same time, I wish to have a clean look for my fruit tree garden--- I am on my way to search for a sustainable system. I hope I will find a solution to this little complex problem very soon.
From an expert, I gathered information that #raking leaves is not good for the #environment. Best to let leaves in the garden till they get dry.
I am listing small steps which I followed to make my garden #ecosystem sustainable to some extent at least.
I.Chop dry leaves of trees into small pieces.
2. Put chopped leaves in #flower beds of the garden
With the passage of time, chopped dry leaves will get absorbed into the soil.
This procedure has the following advantages.
It will give small #animal species like butterflies and lizards, etc, to survive in the ecosystem of chopped dry leaves. At the same time, birds can also get their # food by eating these small animal species. Therefore, helping in #sustainability of the food chain of the environment.
This process mentioned above will make #equilibrium in maintaining the health of the garden, and at the same time #preserve the ecosystem for the survival of small animal species to some extent.
Sukarma Thareja
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