Gardening Sustainably

[thesustainablegardener]

Hello All,

How could we could garden more sustainably and therefore leave the planet in a better condition than we found it in.

Along similar lines I would welcome any suggestions or thoughts as to what to do with a couple of very well made heavy duty jute coffee sacks in the garden.

I thought one could be partly stuffed with some wool and used as a kneeler. The other thought was to use one to collect leaves up in the autumn 🍂

Happy gardening
TheSustainableGardener 👩‍🌾

How big are the sacks? You could plant new potatoes in them.

I use coffee sacks to wrap up ugly recycled containers (e.g. my old broken kitchen bin).

Biggest things for sustainable gardening are peat free compost and not using pesticides (including herbicides). Water management is a big one too - collect and store rainwater, mulch the soil to increase its water retaining capacity.

Might be more involved than some gardeners would like as my background is regenerative agriculture but on a garden scale bringing in some form of live stock to create more of a 'closed loop' system is very valuable. Chickens are the obvious choice as eggs are a lovely bonus, managed well they can provide brilliant manure, eat your weeds, turn over beds (whilst fertilising) and control pests such as slugs and snails. Ducks are also a fine choice or even rabbits/ Guinea pigs who can keep grass down, eat weeds and provide great quality manure that can be applied directly to beds.
In terms of gardening more sustainably this alongside composting and creating your own organic feeds (nettle/ comfrey/ borage) can hugely reduce what you have to bring in (and all the single use plastics associated).