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Yoga and a Clean Mind

August 1, 2007 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

In the unglamorous underbelly of the garden, Eileen Delehanty Pearkes examines sauca: inner & outer cleanliness.

From ascent magazine, issue 34, summer 2007:

One spring, a neighbour gave me a truckload of horse manure for my garden. Knowing nothing at the time about the various virtues and flaws of one form of manure over the other, I accepted it gratefully and with enthusiasm.
Only later, when spring began to ease into summer, did I learn why many gardeners turn down this particular manure.
Although horse manure is rich in nitrogen and other potent plant foods, it is also loaded with weed seeds…

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Eileen Delehanty Pearkes explores landscape, history and the human imagination in writing, maps and visual notebooks.

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