I wish everyone a more thoughtful Earth Day .
This is a picture that I took a couple of years ago of one of my veg garden beds which had layered up with veg peelings , horse manure , a mixture of green leafy stuff, grass cuttings and brown sticks and Autumn leaves and cardboard .
The weeds are deprived of light, so no weeding and no digging , other than just lightly stirring it all together in the Spring .
The worms , wriggled and munched their way through it , all through the rainy Autumn and Winter , creating a beautiful , rich and warm compost in which to sow and plant .
I had the best veg harvest ever after doing this .
Note to self ....." I must work harder to eliminate plastic from my life " .
So I have a horrible orange plastic wheelbarrow and nasty plastic bean net . I have to think of alternatives .
IT ALL ENDS UP IN THE SEA !
Shameful !
Where on Earth has that come from ? !
It all eventually breaks up and is ground down in to tiny granules in the same way that the sand is made . Here is a line of this " plastic sand " washed up in a line on the beach .
Here's a close up of it .....and in time it gets ground down even finer still and the fish and creatures of the sea digest it as they feed from the seabed ....and we in turn eat the fish .
The Sea vomits this vile mess up onto the beaches for us to see !
We cant go on ignoring Mother Earth !
I wish everyone a more thoughtful Earth Day .
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