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Happy Home Life Featured Article
10 Ways to Help the Environment in Your Garden
By: Louise Manning
1. Grow your own food and reduce food miles. By growing some of your
own food you will be reducing the amount of fossil fuel that has been
used to transport your food to ZERO. This year at home we have grown
lettuce, garlic, cabbages, broccoli, tomatoes, beans, and peas. Next
year we are going to be a little more adventurous, but remember only
grow what you like to eat, otherwise it is a waste!
2. Collect all the water from your gutters and roof areas into a rain
butt. This will mean that you are making efficient use of rain water in
the garden, washing the car and reducing your water bills too!
3. Make a compost heap or invest in a compost bin for all your green
waste and kitchen scraps. If you don’t have enough space then find out
where you can take your green waste so that it will be composted by the
local council contractor.
4. Think about where any growing substrate, sphagnum moss, peat, compost
comes from, is it a sustainable source? If you are making your own
compost even better!
5. Think before you use pesticides in the garden. Are they necessary and
is their any biological alternative? Many farmers and gardeners are now
using predatory insects instead of chemicals, so why not find out if you
can do the same.
6. Are you putting wooden furniture, sheds, greenhouses, decking into
your garden? Do you know where the wood comes from? Is it sustainable,
where does the charcoal come from that you are using on the barbeque?
7. What do you do with garden waste, plastic, pots, paper sacks – can
you recycle the material so that it doesn’t go into land-fill – if you
are not sure check with your local council Environment department.
8. Leave some tree prunings, tree stump or dead wood material in a
corner because this will provide a habitat for beetles and a whole range
of creepy-crawlies.
9. Create habitats for wildlife in your garden. Insects are attracted by
insect pollinated flowers that provide pollen and nectar for bees,
butterflies and other insects throughout the year. These plants include
buddleia, Michaelmas daisy and lavender.
10. Don’t turn on your patio heater unless you really need it, put on
another sweater first.
http://greengardenchat.blogspot.com
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