Raking Leaves
I have big #garden in my back yard.I have lovely #seasonal fruit trees in my garden.Once a year I invite my post graduate class and research scholars for party.Students have lot of fun with seasonal fruits. They love to observe# green lush of my beautiful fruit trees.
I am in habit of #raking dried leaves from my garden after every week and use this for making organic #manure.It involves lot of labor and hard work.But its lovely to get beautiful #organic manure after one year.
In short I believe in #recycling dried fallen leaves.
One day I was fall asleep.I saw many #butterflies,moths,salamanders ,chipmunks, #worms near my bed.I was taken a back.I said,welcome to my home dear small animal species .Good to see you all in group.
They said “madam we want to put our humble request to you .Madam you are #raking dry leaves of your garden where we little species have 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 small animal species “please educate me how to save your ecosystem.There is problem with me, I wish to give clean look to my garden-. Suddenly all small species of my garden disappeared.I could hear alarm bell.I realized it is time to go to kitchen—–..
That dream has given big assignment to me. How to help small animal species in my garden so that they could enjoy their life in dry leaves ecosystem but at the same time I wish to have clean look for my fruit tree garden— I am on my way to search for sustainable system.I hope I will find solution to this little complex problem very soon—-.
From expert I gathered information that #raking leaves is not good for #environment. Best is to let leaves in 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 in small pieces.
2.put chopped leaves in #flower beds of garden
With passage of time chopped dry leaves will get absorbed in soil.
This procedure has following advantages.
It will give small #animal species like butterfly and lizard etc to get survived in ecosystem of chopped dry leaves at the same time birds can also get their #foods by eating these small animal species.Therefore helping in #sustainability of food chain of environment.
Moral-This process mentioned above will make #equilibrium in maintaining health of garden,and at the same time #preserve the ecosystem for survival of small animal species to some extent.
Sukarma Thareja
Alumnus IITK
India
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