No matter what amount of chemical you use in your gardening, a drop is a deluge to a microorganism. More to point, most chemicals don’t fade away. They leech into your garden and wait to attach to some growing thing… like your plants. One example is a gardener who claims to grow organic apples. He doesn’t spray his trees, but he does use a chemical “weed & feed” application on his lawn, seemingly unaware of systemic consequences of using chemicals.

Feed your soil

The best way to enrich your soil is to give it regular applications of composted organic matter. Compost can be anything from yard mulch to kitchen vegetable waste. If you don’t have time to maintain a compost bin, an easy way to add organic matter to your yard is through mowing your lawn with a mulching mower. Prepared compost is also available for purchase from nurseries and home garden centers.

Remember house that Jack built? It’s similar in your garden. The roots take from soil to give to stems that bear buds that turn into fruit…. Whether or not fruit is healthy depends on what was in soil.

Butterflies are attracted to areas of your gardens where they can gather food for their offspring. The caterpillar will eat from plants while adult butterflies will sip on nectar of flowers. As your plants, shrubs, and flowers mature, amount of butterflies to your gardens will also increase. The plants and flowers that you put in your garden this year will attract only a few, but in years to come natural instinct of butterfly will lead them to your garden.

What is adult butterfly searching for in your gardens? The butterfly searches for areas to take shelter from high winds, rains, and summer storms. This is where trees and shrubs in your gardens become important in protecting butterfly and offering shelter. During normal, warm sunny summer day butterfly wants wide-open areas of your lawn and garden.

Butterflies will seek soft soil that is sandy-like to find water. The sand-like soil that allows water to puddle up after a rainstorm is a butterflies delight. The developing stages of caterpillar to butterfly are observed often in established butterfly garden.

By creating atmosphere in garden that offers shelter, food, water and fragrance butterfly is searching for you will have Butterfly Garden success.

Gordon Goh is author of the free, informative website Simply Flower Garden offering quality useful tips for flower garden lovers. He is also the internet marketer with good knowledge in SEO