Eco-Gardening is about working in sympathy with your garden and the natural environment around you to achieve your garden ambitions.
Gardens, gardening and the wider agricultural and farming industries rely heavily on the land. This has increased over many years through industrialisation of agriculture, intensive farming and increasing number of golf courses and parks.
Whilst the above provides many vital goods and services such as food, increasingly consumers and producers are becoming aware of the environmental impact we are having on the land.
Gardening as its part to play in reducing our carbon footprint, recycleing more garden waste, reusing and repurposing, working in harmony with the environment and the seasons.
Eco-Gardening is about working with your garden not against it:
- Pruning trees in winter to protect trees and encourage spring growth
- Recycling all garden waste (wood chippings, mulch, compost)
- Using water saving devices such as water butts
- Using solar panels to power lights or water features
- Providing a habitat for wild life such as insects and birds
- Working by hand and not using petrol power tools
- Consider planting a range of plant species in your garden to create a diverse habitat for wildlife
- Try and grow your own fruit, veg or herbs
- Plant trees to improve and clean the air around you
Whenever possible try to avoid the following:
- Buying new bags of compost, try to reuse and add nutrients to existing soil
- Disposing of organic waste which could be mulched or chipped
- Try and save or reuse water from paddling pools and containers
- Using petrol power tools
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