Want to create an earth-friendly garden but you don’t know how? Don’t fret, I will give you eleven tips on how to make your garden more eco-friendly with green gardening techniques. These are my tried and true tips on creating a more environmentally friendly garden that is good for you and for the earth. If you are interested in green living and have a garden, a back yard, or an outdoor space, then gardening organically is for you. It helps you in your journey to living a more eco-friendly life. Read on to learn how you can create a green garden that will thrive for years.
What Is Green Gardening?
Green gardening, also known as sustainable or eco gardening, is a method to design, create, and maintain your garden to save time, money and energy. Green gardening nurtures wildlife, reduces air, soil, and water pollution, and helps you grow your own healthy food.
Green gardens:
Have minimal impact on the environment from the use of little or no artificially produced chemicals or the need for powered devices to care for the landscape.
Make the best use of available resources such as utilizing rainwater overflow to hydrate plants.
Save time and money by replacing manicured landscapes into easy to maintain gardens.
Provide diversity in the landscape by reducing the size of mowed areas into edible garden plots that improve your health.
Increases habitat for wildlife and supports an active ecosystem where plants, microbes, insects, and other animals all depend on one another.
11 Green Gardening Tips
Here are eleven tips for green gardening that I taught my permaculture students and the homes where I built gardens. Follow these tips to have an eco-friendly garden:
1. Grow Your Own Food
2. Go Organic
3. Make Your Own Compost
4. Get Into Worm Poop
5. Use Native Plants
6. Recycle Rainwater
7. Use Less Water
8. Attract Butterflies and Bees
9. Learn Companion Planting
10. Seek Out Seed Savers and Seed Swaps
11. Use Less Plastic
For more in-depth on each head to Green Gardening: How to Make Your Garden More Eco-Friendly
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