Regaining biodiversity in your plantings

Share your success stories about defoliation, bare rooting and anything else relating to maintaining healthy bonsai.
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Regaining biodiversity in your plantings

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Not sure how applicable this is to bonsai, but something to think about ....

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-18/ ... e/11126862
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Mel,

i have been using the information from Rodale [ on-line] since 1986 or so.
I have never had to spray anything and use a very simple soi mixl.
Just grow and clip [ Directional pruning ].

When a plant is ill, everything will do what they are supposed to do - destroy it.

Next year will be my 41th year with Bonsai.
I was 17 when I started, but had an idea about Bonsai since I was 15.
I also grow vegetables with companion plants.

My avatar - is from seed and almost 40. A Tamarindus indica.

See also Garden Myths - https://www.gardenmyths.com/
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Always good to hear of successes, thanks Tambrand.
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