Super Biodynamic plant care
This blog is about the idea of Super Biodynamic plant care. My mother was into plants. She loved flowers and doing flower arrangements. I grew up helping her do yard work. In the 1960’s, we purchased a lot on lake Lanier. I worked with my father and mother transforming the lot, building a house and planting gardens and trees. I was a big fan of blueberries, apples, peaches, pears and figs. My mother took in 1966 a subscription to Organic Gardening. I read every issue we got. We mulched leaves and put them around the base of the trees and bushes. I feel she was influenced by her mother and sister who had a blackest soil in their gardens in Athens.
Early Successes with Organic Gardening
Consequently, we had early successes at our house in town and the lake house. Then I went to University and things sort of lost energy. I got married and had a nice garden and yard at first. Then my life went south.
I had failures
Sadly, I married a person who sabotaged my life and successes. Then 2023 happened. I was on a statin and lost energy. I then went and got help. Yes, we all have failures in out lives. We can learn from them. I then started rethinking what I was doing and researching plant growth. I am after all a practical biologist now.
So I then researched Plant growth…
Many vineyards use biodynamic methods. The first wines I tasted did not have a great taste. So I wrote off the biodynamic methods as a fad. I am not going to be exactly following according to Rudolf Steiner‘s biodynamic formulas. For years I have used plant store fertilizes with really poor results. Last August, I saw a YouTube where an Orchid growers was using the water you wash rice with as an orchid fertilizer. So I started using it. Here are the results:
Thus Super Biodynamic plant care
I have had the pink butterfly since 2018 without a bloom cycle. Golden Panda has not bloomed since I got it! So I am coining a new term “Super Biodynamic plant care”. Part of my new plan will be to do this in my yard on my fruit trees and grape vines. The process is about making organic fertilizers from table scraps, rice waste water, ash from my grill and other soil techniques to increase the bacteria in the soil. It is pretty clear where I live now was at one time old cotton fields. Cotton plants strip the soil and the early farmers in Georgia screwed up the top soil. So all that was left was the dead red clay with no good soil bacteria or nutrients. So my plan, will contain more than just putting out fertilizers and lime. And there you have it, one of my tasked defined for 2024.