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( 9amc of 11)
This is a expansion from the Garden Lessons in UC#2184 and another angle of light regarding water and plants that has been discussed so many times.
Regarding watering, it's not simply a matter of humans watering gardens-farms-yards. When it rains, the atmospheric conditions are different than when humans water. Therefore, rain contains different elements, thus plants and soil organisms respond differently to this different set of conditions.
This is why humans can water at night and it increases the probability of powdery mildew fungus, yet it rains at night and does not increase that probability. Furthermore many tropical and rainforests are subject to lots of moisture, yet are not overrun with powdery mildew.
The healthy human goal should be to optimize water in the form of precipitation, humidity, condensation, water table and evaporation. This is re-solving the water problem.
Even if manual (human) watering was somehow magically timed correctly and in the correct amount, the constituents of the water would still be almost always suboptimal and so would duplicating the local climate that rain creates.
Frequent or regular manual watering incentivizes limiting human understanding of how to integrate with the ecosystem and help restore it. It fosters the idea that as long as we can get water from a pipe and then put that on our garden, everything's gonna be alright. It fosters a false sense of correctness that human intelligence knows when to water and how much for any single plant or variety of plants. It causes humans to focus on watering the plant rather than helping the soil ecosystem retain and get all it needs.
A reliance on manual watering fosters a false notion of soil needing to dry out. Go into a natural setting that is a healthy micro-ecosystem where a variety of plants are thriving and check one or two inches into the soil, you will find it damp. Do this on the hottest day of the year or when your home area has not received rain in a while and on a day when you think you have to manually water your plants. How are all the other plants in non-disturbed places able to make do with the rain they get?
Human watering fosters weak think and weak behavior that if something is absent in the ecosystem, humans can just add that item without regard to the form or process or impact on the ecosystem.
Human watering is appropriate under extreme conditions and limited circumstances. It is also appropriate when we are first returning to growing more of our own food, but manual watering and returning to a more eco-sensible mindset don't automatically go together.
Frequent or regular manual watering is okay in the short-term but is detrimental in the long-term. It is detrimental to human understandings of learning how to live in harmony with the ecosystem. It is also detrimental to annual and perennial plants, their genetics and their seed.
Yes, you can get annual plant production and harvest via a regular routine of watering by hand or by turning on irrigation lines. The need for water to be added to a human-inhabited ecosystem is a by-product of soil dynamics, which includes soil cover with multiple levels of plants in the form of decomposing mulch and living mulch. It is also a byproduct of human eco-sensibility that has impacted the ecosystem.
The need for human watering is tied to not yet finding a re-solution that optimizes water availability, use and loss.
Water has been a frequent topic. Look around you at all the places where you and other humans do not water. Listen and learn to how those plants survive and thrive year after year after year.
Truth be retold, plants preceded humans and plants are going to outlive humans if there be a complete reversal of fortune. It is not plants that have the greatest need for water.
Crying out for help and dying of thirst is the memory in our cells that is crying out for the elemental souls of life in water.
Our spirit-soul needs water to help us mentally and emotionally so we can remember how to interact with physical water.
Now comes Aquaria, the Great Mother of the Waters.
Also comes Tefnut, Aquarius and the others to help those who are not too humanly manually trained and inundated to drink much more vibrant (nutrient-rich) water – moisture for days.
Thoughts A Few Hours Later
We always turn to self and superhuman nature in order to understand and doublecheck understandings about something else. This allows us to compare both halves of the two truths. For instance, we check our understandings about watering plants against how our bodies get the water it needs. We know we do not think about watering individual cells in our body or groups of cells such as muscle cells, skin cells, heart cells and so on. No. Instead we drink periodically to water the entire system and allow the system to do what it does by distributing water and then cells drink when they need to. We just need to make sure water is available all the time.
Earth and its plants are watered by Mother-Father Earth who makes water available for plants that are supposed to be growing in that space and time. All other plants require creating a system to keep them watered. Earth is mostly water just like we are mostly water. To the extent we partner with nature to water plants is the extent to which we can reduce human manual watering and restore the system to support a broader range of life. The goal is not to outsmart nature but to be eco-sensible so we don't devastate the ecosystem and learn ourselves into an embryo-sized human box.
Nature is trying to help us remember how to recycle and return to zero waste and understand our own bodies and learn how to do things more efficiently so we can evolve.
