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- 1. By planting native trees and flowers in your garden it helps stop them from going extinct.
- 2. If you’re worried about the pesticides you may be using, hang bird boxes in your garden as they eat slugs and snails, which means you can leave pest control up to Mother Nature!
- 3. To protect against greenflies and other insects, encourage other animals such as ladybirds or frogs.
- 4. Grow your own fruit or vegetables. By not buying them from the supermarket, you’re helping stop shipping them from other countries which wastes fuel and pollutes the atmosphere. Alternatively, get a vegtable box or buy local from your farmer’s market.
- 5. Let some of the vegetables grow into flowers; this will allow bees to start pollinating.
- 6. By keeping a container outside when it rains, you can use the collected rain water to water your plants.
- 7. I recently discovered push powered lawn mowers as well. They don’t use electricity and they work just as well as electric or gas mowers. They’re cheap to run and if you think they may be difficult to push, there are some very light mowers available.
- 8. If you water your plants every day using a sprinkler, one tip is to put a frisbee toy, rim up, on the lawn and when it has filled with water, shut off the sprinkler.
- 9. Try planting shade trees in your garden as they produce lots of oxygen, provide shelter for animals and prevent storm water run off.
- 10. Start using a compost bin, it cuts the amount of waste we produce if we compost it ourselves and it’s cheap, easy and contrary to popular belief shouldn’t smell if it’s done right.
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