{"id":558,"date":"2017-03-30T11:48:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T10:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=558"},"modified":"2017-03-25T14:51:26","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T14:51:26","slug":"top-10-green-gardening-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/environmental-gardening\/top-10-green-gardening-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Green Gardening Habits"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Get into Green Habits<\/h3>\n
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  1. Work with nature.<\/strong> Grow native plants which will thrive in your local conditions. If you live in an arid area choose plants which are tolerant of draught. Labouring in a garden is healthy, satisfying, cheap and can be fine tuned to your own vision of your environment.<\/li>\n
  2. Grow a good variety of plants<\/strong> including, shrubs and hedges for nesting, nectar plants and caterpillar food such as nettles.<\/li>\n
  3. Do not be too tidy under hedges, keep a rough area to encourage wild life, keep a pile of logs or branches to rot down and an uncut grass area with a few weeds.<\/li>\n
  4. Put up home made birds nesting boxes, bee nests with hollow tubes, and make areas safe from predators.<\/li>\n
  5. Provide appropriate food and water for birds and hedgehogs. Birds and hedgehogs can be great eaters of slugs!<\/li>\n
  6. Reuse, recycle<\/strong>, repurpose and retry if you fail, because that is what gardeners do. Don’t worry if your garden is not perfection – it is not a finished painting, but, an evolving organism.<\/li>\n
  7. Have a fast compost bin for soft waste and a slow one for twigs and harder matter plus a wire frame for leaf mould. Compost provides one of the best organic <\/a>soil improvers.<\/li>\n
  8. Try growing your own herbs and vegetables without chemicals but using complementary planting.e.g. Tomatoes and French marigolds, Brassicas with Onions and Leeks<\/li>\n
  9. Keep your greenhouse unheated but insulate tender plants with straw. You will be less encouraged to buy imported plants from exotic regions and will save fuel.<\/li>\n
  10. Maintain your green sense of humour<\/strong> and green fingers but don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t become green with envy when your neighbours buy the latest Chinese electronic gardening gizmo.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n