If You Build it They Will Come
A garden without bugs is only half a garden.
As you may remember form our bee post we were initially concerned about building a garden on a seemingly lifeless rooftop. Short of installing honeybee hives or purchasing ladybugs via the internet cultivating insect populations in your garden in a little trickier then putting seed in the ground. Fortunately, as you trust in the seed to sprout, you can trust bugs to find you almost anywhere if you provide them a good home. (As anyone who has witness spontaneous aphid infestation on their windowsill tomatoes can attest to)
So where do they come from anyway? There were most likely already all kinds of eggs in our organic soil mix, we definitely saw some earthworms when assembling the planters. These were the foundations of our little ecosystem and as the plants grow up and the bugs fly in it becomes more complex every day.
So what have we seen?
And of course we can’t forget our friends under the soil–
