For people who want to grow more food with less work. 🌱 This is my weekly newsletter loved by 38,000+ subscribers—here's what one of them had to say: "These are not the regular run-of-the-mill garden-based emails. You actually touch on more unusual tidbits that encourage me to keep growing and learning."
turn your yard into a butterfly paradise 🦋
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If you're like me, the sight of a butterfly in the yard might make you pause for a moment and enjoy that fleeting connection to nature. But, I'm also that person who stops and marvels at every little thing in my garden... earthworms (the bigger the better), ladybugs, bees, wasps, beetles, praying mantises, hummingbirds, frogs, lizards, and if I'm lucky enough to see them, garter snakes! All these creatures reassure me that I'm creating a healthy mini ecosystem for my plants, and the more of them I can bring in, the fewer problems I have with pests, crops, and soil. That's why you should strive to invite more insects into your garden, and you can start with some of the most beautiful ones: butterflies. Not only are they soothing to watch, they're also great pollinators. And attracting them is as simple as giving them things to eat and places to rest. ​Here's how you can create your very own butterfly garden!​ Even just adding a couple of these elements will make your yard a little friendlier to not only butterflies, but other pollinators as well. Butterflies are just one of the many important components of a healthy garden. Another is one you don't often see: the arthropods and microbes that live below the surface, collectively called the soil food web. This vital network is what feeds your plants, and some of them actually work in symbiosis with plant roots to nourish and improve the soil. The most valuable thing you can do in gardening is keeping the soil food web alive, active, and healthy. And if you want to know how you can achieve this—easily—I have an entire module in my Lazy Gardening course that covers the soil food web, explained in a way that anyone can understand. You can see what else I teach in my course right here. If growing more food with less work is something you can get onboard with, try me out by signing up for three free videos that'll give you a glimpse into my style of teaching and the "lazy gardening" principles I follow.
Despite the name, being a lazy gardener does not mean sitting around and doing nothing—rather, it's mimicking nature and putting natural regenerative systems to work for you so you can have a more productive garden. And I, for one, am so thrilled with how my garden is doing right now, even though I hadn't stepped foot in it since last fall. 😊 P.S. Turn your yard into a butterfly magnet with these simple tips. P.P.S. Click here to get three free videos in your email and learn how to level up your garden game this year. |
Garden Betty
Gardening made easy, life made simpler.
For people who want to grow more food with less work. 🌱 This is my weekly newsletter loved by 38,000+ subscribers—here's what one of them had to say: "These are not the regular run-of-the-mill garden-based emails. You actually touch on more unusual tidbits that encourage me to keep growing and learning."