Sustainable Gardening Practices To Embrace

By Anna Hill


There is excellent health and beauty in natural living. It is also affordable to live a natural life. This is the idea behind embracing sustainable gardening practices, whether you have a farm or are dealing with your flower bed and kitchen garden. The idea is to save time and resources for today and in future. Here is a look at practices that are considered ecologically friendly.

Capture water on your compound, use it there and save the remainder for future use. Plants on your garden require period watering. Fortunately, the water is available naturally from rain. Trap this water using tanks and conserve it for the dry season. It means that you do not need to pump water from long distances. This saves on energy and ensures that the water is chemically compatible with plants and animals on your garden.

Generate compost on your garden. A lot of useful waste comes from the kitchen. Kitchen crap and left overs that are not meat related are useful when you need manure for your garden. Other than let the remains to be dumped in landfills, they can be spread under plants and allowed to turn into compost. You end up with soil that is very rich while the remains also serve as mulch.

Use available materials to mulch. Mulching is known as a prudent way to conserve water because it prevents evaporation from the surface. Further, mulching helps to suppress weed by denying it light. When mulch eventually composes, it turns into humus. Mulching becomes a mega source of ecological benefits. Beyond saving you from pumping water for irrigation, you will reduce the frequency for gardening and remain with compost at the end of the mulching exercise.

Invest in native plants for your patch. This has been drawn from nature. It has a way of finding balance such that you will require less effort to weed the garden. Native plants form a combination that also aids in mulching and in the process reduce the need for irrigation. Since local plants are adapted to the environment, they require less water and can naturally draw nutrients from the soil. This reduces the need for fertilizer.

Vegetables and fruits are perfect flowers that make your gardening sustainable. With good nurturing, the fruits and vegetable trees will make your compound beautiful. It reduces your kitchen budget while keeping the yard beautiful. These fruits and vegetable plants are also effective in attracting helpful insects and animals.

Use chicken to till and predators instead of pesticides. Chicken scratch the ground and in the process dig it up. They turn the soil and mix your manure better than you can do with your hands. They will also collect pests and insects that are likely to damage your garden. Let them out for a few hours and your garden will look as though it has been gardened.

Natural methods are what sustainable gardening is all about. They keep your garden in perfect shape and also healthy. You do not spend a lot of money on herbicides, pesticides and tilling, or any other maintenance practice. With the guidance of an agronomist and by making the right choices, your compound remains healthy, beautiful and productive all year round.




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