In our front food-forest-nursery-garden we are working alongside nature to produce the inputs our garden requires.
In this case we prune back this epic wild tobacco plant to give the garden a pulse of growth and to encourage the plants around it to start pushing growth and encouraging flowering. Doing so gives them a nice bit of fertilisation both in the soil through root die off (which adds organic matter, changes the makeup of the soil life, and encourages the plant to release growth hormones), and above the soil through the mulch (which creates an amazing microclimate upon the soil) and additional sunlight.
