How to Garden the Low Carbon Way: The Steps You Can Take to Help Combat Climate Change

by Sally Nex

Overview

Create a beautiful home garden while reducing your carbon footprint along the way

Transform your outdoor space into a low-impact, carbon-absorbing sink with this fantastic gardening guide, packed with ideas to grow a climate-friendly garden that will help protect the planet.

Keen on starting your own garden but unsure about your environmental impact? This guide will give you practical advice on which soil to use, plants that are best for absorbing carbon dioxide, low-carbon fertilizers, and cutting out single-use plastic. What's more, this garden book is completely backed by scientific research!

Share in the delight of eco-conscious gardening when you start using How to Garden the Low Carbon Way as your guide. Explore the benefits of no-dig gardening, how to use fewer plants, using hedges instead of fences, how to grow shrubs that support wildlife, and more!

This green gardening book will make growing your own garden easy, enjoyable, and eco-friendly and includes sections on;

- How to grow plants that reduce your carbon footprint
- Creating a garden that considers the local wildlife
- Tips on setting up your garden, low-impact plants, and best fertilizers to use

Green Gardening: Low environmental impact

This fantastic gardening book is a simple, step-by-step guide to learn about gardening or to reference as your garden grows. You'll quickly become acquainted with the benefits of growing a garden that positively contributes to the environment. Plus, you'll have all the fun, rewards a gardening hobby has to offer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780744045383
Publisher:	DK
Publication date:	03/02/2021
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	74 MB
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About the Author

Sally Nex worked as a journalist on BBC radio, television, and World Service for 15 years. Since leaving the BBC in 2006 she has devoted herself to horticulture, qualifying to RHS Level 3 and gaining a planting design diploma. Sally writes, teaches, and gives talks on veg growing, self-sufficiency, and sustainable gardening all over the country. She is a regular contributor and columnist for BBC Gardeners' World Magazine, the RHS journal The Garden, Grow Your Own, and The Guardian.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

How plants absorb carbon 8

Designing the Low-Carbon Garden

The low-carbon garden 12

Using sustainable materials 14

Planting the low-carbon garden 16

Garden Buildings and Structures

Low-carbon garden buildings 20

Build a reclaimed shed 22

Green your shed roof 24

Planting

Plant a tree 28

Carbon offset planting 30

Coppicing and pollarding 32

Managing a low-carbon mixed border 34

Lawn Care

Keeping your fawn green 38

Lawns without the gross 40

A walk on the wild side 42

The low-carbon meadow 44

Hedges and Boundaries

Plant a hedge 48

Plant a hedge for wildlife 50

Make a fedge 52

Paths, Paving, and Patios

Planting between pavers 56

Permeable paving 58

Paths without the paving 60

Greenhouse Growing

The greenhouse effect 64

Make your own greenhouse heater 66

Greenhouse growing without the greenhouse 68

Growing Vegetables

Vegetables that don't cost the earth 72

Forever food 74

Saving for a rainy day 76

Water Gardening

Pond life 80

Make a wildlife pond 82

Create a rain garden 84

Watering

The low-water garden 88

Catch the rain 90

Harvest your rainwater 92

Weeding

How to deal with the weeds 96

Killing weeds without the weedkiller 98

Love your weeds 100

Feeding

Feed the soil, not the plant 104

Grow your own plant food 106

Set up a wormery 108

Inviting Nature In

Plant for habitat 112

Plant for pollinators 114

Rewild your garden 116

Build a bug hotel 118

Potting Mix

Go peat-free 122

Buy growing mix in bulk 124

Make your own potting mixes 126

Low-carbon container growing 128

Seed Sowing

Make your own pots, trays, and modules 132

Make leaf mold 134

Raise seeds indoors 136

Managing Soil

The world beneath your feet 140

Cover the ground 142

Use green manures 144

Pest Control

Prevention is better than cure 148

Mix it up 150

Make your own pesticides 152

Buying Plants

Buy locally 156

Buy with the seasons 158

Raise your own plants 160

Shopping for the Garden

Embrace the old 164

Support your local artisans 166

Grow your own garden sundries 168

Dealing with Garden Waste

Don't let it go to waste 172

Make compost 174

Make a log pile 176

Use clippings as mulch 178

Taking It Further

Grow useful plants 182

Grow a square'-foot cut-flower patch 184

Clothe your house in greenery 186

Further resources 188

Acknowledgments and About the author 189

Index 190