{"id":15118,"date":"2013-01-20T08:53:25","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T15:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15118"},"modified":"2013-01-20T08:53:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T15:53:25","slug":"green-gardening-must-haves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/environmental-gardening\/green-gardening-must-haves\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Gardening Must Haves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is not hard to be a green gardener although green fingers are often in short supply. Here are some things you can and shouldn&#8217;t do to improve the &#8216;green gardening habits&#8217; you already possess. You must already be some form of green gardener if you garden at all.<\/p>\n<h3>Top Steps to a Green Garden<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Compost your green waste from the kitchen (no meat or fish). Then use the rotted compost on the garden. If you don&#8217;t want a heap try a big bucket or just bury the waste and it will still rot down.<\/li>\n<li>Welcome wild life with appropriate plants that provide food and shelter for insects butterflies and other creatures<\/li>\n<li>Grow your own fruit like apples and your own veg. You can also grow flowers for the house rather than buy imported flowers from a shop.<\/li>\n<li>Conserve water and energy. A mulch will save water and if you apply any water make sure it is directed at the roots and wont evaporate in the mid day sun.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4541595748\/\" title=\"Rhubarb by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4051\/4541595748_5c0875cc76.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Rhubarb\"><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Home Grown Rhubarb<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Have Nots for a Green Garden<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Avoid killing creatures by too many noxious chemicals<\/li>\n<li>Too much inappropriate hard landscaping can cause flooding and &#8216;aint green&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Too many imported plants have excessive air miles. Annuals should be home grown and native species of tree, hedge and other plants are best.<\/li>\n<li>Do not be over tidy, leave some area of long grass and\/or a rotting woodpile for insects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you grow anything you are on your way to being a &#8216;green gardener&#8217;. Keep up the good work with small changes when ever you get the chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}