a natural garden, without products and without a lot of work

You do not have too much time to take care of your garden? Try the natural garden with advice from Roland Motte, our gardener.

You want to have a profusion of plants and flowers in your garden but you don’t necessarily have the time to devote to it. Making a natural garden is the solution for you! Roland Motte, the gardener of France Bleu Besançon and France Bleu Lorraine, gives you the few principles to use to set up a garden that will live – almost – on its own, without much maintenance.

To do natural gardening, you need a garden, a balcony or a terrace, plants, mulching, nesting boxes and then small animals. Gardening naturally means gardening with zero phytos and therefore without products that can be used in organic farming. We return to the practices of the priest’s gardens.

• The first principle is perhaps the most important, it is not to plow the soil. We air it out, that’s all.
• The second principle, we never leave this soil uncovered, so we mulch with straw, compost, hay, hemp, dead leaves. Go ahead, mulch, mulch. Unwanted weeds will hardly or not grow.
• The third principle is to bio-diversify the flora in your space as much as possible. Vegetables, fruits, berries, aromatic plants, edible wild flowers and plants, bee plants for bees.
• The fourth principle is to invite wildlife. You need birds, place birdhouses, feeders, berry bushes. You also need, of course, insects, let a wasteland grow, sow a flower meadow and place an insect hotel. For hedgehogs, a pile of wood, for frogs, a small pond, for ladybugs, aphids, aphids they like it.

That’s natural gardening.

Find Roland Motte on France Bleu Lorraine and France Bleu Besançon and on his website www.rolandmotte.fr.