Pasta and the Organic Garden
The herbs in your spaghetti add flavor, but in the garden, herb plants attract many beneficial insects, which eat your garden pests. Beneficial insects, such as ladybugs and dragonflies, are important ways of controlling pests in the organic garden. The onion and garlic taste great in your sauce, but in the garden they can deter bugs from eating your plants. Organic gardeners work on deterring pests and preventing problems so they won't need to use pesticides. By encouraging beneficial insects and deterring pests from eating, you can prevent many problems in your garden.
To create the best possible sauce, you need to experiment with different combinations of herbs, flavors, and tomatoes. Your garden is the same way. Perhaps oregano can deter squash bugs; perhaps yarrow works better. Carrots and tomatoes might grow well together, or maybe carrots and beans grow better together. Mix things up and watch what happens. Organic gardening can be a great big, fun experiment. Just as you experiment to make the perfect sauce you need to experiment to make the perfect organic garden.
Now those pork neck bones are a little unusual. They're weirdly shaped, but their nooks and crannies hide the greatest flavor surprises. You need the same thing in your garden: nooks and crannies to hide not flavors, but some surprising and friendly creatures. These creatures, such as snakes, toads, and birds, eat garden pests. So, make some rock and pottery caves for the snakes and toads, leave some tall weeds close by, fill some watering trays, put up bird houses, and watch where you step. Organic gardens should have lots of friendly creatures in them.
You need to be gentle with your sauce. Dried bottled herbs can be bitter and give your sauce a fake taste. In the same way, bottled synthetic pesticides can ruin your garden. You may think you're solving a problem by using synthetic pesticides, but you're also killing a lot of beneficial creatures, including bees, toads, spiders and lady bugs. When these beneficial creatures are dead, your pests are free to return and ruin your garden. Once you decide to garden organically, you will need to learn to be gentle. If you must use pesticides, use natural, gentle ones like insecticidal soap, horticultural oil, Bt. (a bacteria), or just a spray of water. Sometimes the best solution is the gentlest solution. So don't ruin that sauce by using harsh, bottled herbs, and don't ruin
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