Talking About Green

Growing a garden is a great way to contribute to the environment and to do your bit against global warming. By growing your own garden you are creating more plants and tress which can help to produce more oxygen and dispel unwanted carbon gas. At the same time you are providing a habitat for local wildlife and if you grow your own fruits and vegetables you can even save money and energy on farming.

But in order to really make your garden an environmentally friendly endeavour, you need to make sure that you are avoiding using synthetic products in your garden like pesticides and fertilizers. Such products can actually be harmful for the environment in a number of ways as they can poison the local wildlife and upset the ecosystem. At the same time they can be bad for you if you end up ingesting them, or even for your pets – so it’s much better to avoid using them if possible.

But wait you might be thinking, won’t that result in a less healthy garden? Well no not necessarily – and actually if you know how you can maintain your garden in many much healthier ways without buying any synthetic products and using only organic materials that you can get yourself. Here we will look at how.

Pesticides

There are many things that can be used as pesticide that are completely natural and will cause no harm to the environment – and some of these won’t even be lethal to the pests you are trying to scare away. One option for instance to get rid of aphids on your plants is to simply cover them in a little olive oil or a little vinegar. Meanwhile if you want to keep slugs away from your cabbage patch then you can accomplish this by simply scattering some broken egg shells around the area. This works because it prevents the slugs from being able to crawl over the ground there without damaging their stomachs.

Another way to get rid of if you want to in your garden is to attract their natural predators. For instance then if you want to get rid of many bugs that eat your plants then attracting ladybirds to your garden is a good strategy and is fairly easy using a ‘ladybird patch’ which is just a moist patch of overgrown grass in your garden. Likewise you can also attract wasps and bees using brightly colored flowers and they will kill all kinds of unwanted bugs as well as pollinating your flowers.

Fertilizers

All fertilizers do is to provide your plants with organic matter. In the wild plants will draw minerals through the soil that come from decomposed leaves, fruits, nuts, bits of wood, grass, insects and animals. That’s how they get their iron and other minerals and why they are so nutritious for us.

To provide them with this then all you need is to use any kind of broken down organic matter and this can mean egg shells again, fish food, stock from your food, peel, stalks, roots, left over meat and everything else. Keep a bin especially for organic waste and blend it up or let it rot before sprinkling it on your soil.

Jamie Kirk is an environmentalist, who strongly advocates the preservation and enhancement of the natural environment. He recommends the usage of solar pv cells to generate electricity from solar energy.

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