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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
I have plenty of earthworms in the ground against the house where we have a few shrubs and a couple of potted plants. It's all covered with cedar bark and separated from the lawn with decorative manufactured stone blocks. I have some worms in the garden bed as well, it's not raised, but it is covered with cedar bark.
I use no fertilizers, pesticides, or weedkillers in either part of our property.
The lawn guy does use antkiller in a liquid fertilizer to treat our lawn but the leaching into the garden is minimal because of barriers (we have 160-year-old bricks for the barrier in the front garden).
I can't say for sure but I'm thinking the cedar bark is the key. It has a naturally waxy surface that keeps the soil beneath it moist, and serves as insulation against excessive heat or cold.
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We do. Use pesticides, weedkillers and fertilizer.
We also think the earth is getting warmer and the smoke is polluting the air.
We do save our money, our leftovers and we reuse and repurpose.
And we try not to virtue signal.