Love me, WHY CAN'T YOU?

Dear Gardener,

I have always have a WISHFUL dream.

That is, to become your ' official ' PET.

INSTEAD of your ' detested ' PEST.

To be LOVED and PROTECTED by you.

From the KILLER pellets and kind.

But a wishful dream is EVER a wishful dream.

You will never love me.

In your heart, I am forever a pest that will ruin your plants.

If, to the extent you must get rid of me, 

SPARE ME, MY LIFE, I pray.

Send me off to the wild instead.

THOUGH I do think I could make a GOOD pet.

As ALL I ask is just a GARDEN to roam in.

And a PORTION of your PLANTS to fill my tummy.

MOREOVER, if you would seriously look at me,

you would find that I am actually quite LOVELY in a way!

Love Me,

the Garden Snail

Let's Be Kind To Our Garden Pests

Every growing season, we can see gardeners scratch their heads, battling with unwanted intruders ( or so-called ' Garden Pests ' ) that are nibbling away at their plants. Following the masses, they use all kinds of protective and eradicative means to deal with them. While biological pest control method does not cause damage to the environment like the chemical one does, it is still not a good option. It does harm our garden pests somehow. Mechanical pest control method could be a better one ( in terms of not causing harm to our garden pests ), but that would mean increases in cost, labour and time used. So, the latter is not ideal either.

So, what other option(s) do we have then?

Let's take human being as an example. When one is strong and healthy, nasty people ( or bullies ) and pathogens wouldn't dare to or be able to get near, what more attack one. Even if they do affect one somehow, one will surely bounce back and become stronger and healthier than before. The same principle applies to our garden pests and plants. So, all we need to do is as simple as to care for and feed our plants well. Only when they are internally strong and healthy would they be able to defend themselves against garden pests naturally.

Apart from growing really strong plants, we can also communicate with and be kind to our garden pests in a way. We can sacrifice a small plot of our cultivated plants and offer it to our garden pests to feast on as they wished. We can put up a notice at the plot that says, " Garden Pests Are Welcome To Feast Here ". It may seem ridiculous but whether we believe it or not, our garden pests do understand somehow, especially when we do it with utmost sincerity. Only when their instincts tell them that we mean no harm and are kind to them, would they return our kindness and leave our other plants, undisturbed.

Note : Garden Pests ( however irritating and tiny they are ), like us human beings, do cherish their lives and fear deaths. So, let's be kind and spare them when we could! It takes only a little of our efforts.

Happy Growing! 

" A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. "      

Amelia Earhart