If you’ve been gardening up a storm, keep in mind that you can have a lush garden without harming the environment. Your eco-friendly lifestyle can and should extend to your gardening habits.
How, you ask?
By taking our eco-friendly gardening advice, naturally. And starting with small steps.
Read on for five sustainable gardening tips:
Most pesticides are laden with chemicals that are harmful for the environment. Opt for natural alternatives instead to prevent pests from running riot over your garden. Try a garlic and chilli mixture, or put petroleum jelly around your plant pots so pests can’t climb up on them.
Another slightly unusual (but tried and tested) tactic is to use a good old can of beer. Yep, that’s right. Spray a mix of flat beer and salt around your garden to keep bugs and slugs at bay.
If you do buy straight up pesticides, try and make sure they’re 100% organic with low toxicity levels.
There’s no better feeling than growing and eating your own produce. You’ll feel like a proud parent as you watch those babies bloom… before you consume them, of course.
Not only does growing your own vegetables have the feel-good factor, you’ll also be reducing your carbon emissions by not buying produce that often takes a lot of energy to produce.
Now, you don’t need a massive garden to grow your own veg – you can even do a pretty good job with a little balcony space.
Growing herbs is a good first step. They’re fairly low maintenance, and they attract bees which helps to deal with harmful pests.
Now, this is a lot less complex than it sounds. If you learn how to make your own compost, it’s a great step towards sustainable gardening.
Not only can you easily discard without adding to landfill waste, your plants also get to enjoy the fresh nutrient-rich soil produced by your compost. Win-win.
Being careful with your water usage when gardening makes a world of difference. And it’s actually not that difficult either. Try the below to be more water-wise:
If your garden is proving high maintenance but looks oh-so-pretty, there are great gardening services in London that can help keep it trim.
If you want a garden you can easily maintain yourself, select native plants. It’s a lot less work to care for plants that thrive in their local habitat. It’s also considerably more eco-friendly as they’re naturally suited to the environment.
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