How To Create An Eco Garden?

Are you tired with the simple lawn in your back yard, wish to have a special green area created in the back of your house but would like to keep it ecological and environment-friendly? Creating an eco garden is not only easy, it can save you a lot of money you would spend on all the chemicals used in modern gardening.

The concept of eco gardening is known for over fifty years now and is gaining new followers rapidly, especially since the nineties of the XX century. The idea of being able to contribute to improving environment’s condition is appealing to many and the more people take part in this process, the bigger difference it makes.

A good place to start your eco garden is compost – later it will become the perfect fertilizer for your plants, providing them with humus nutrients. Basically, you should prepare a hole in a secluded part of your garden, surrounded by low wooden walls. This way the compost will not affect the neighboring plant life too much and will be easy to use. Most of the organic products that you use at home are usable for composting. Coffee grounds, fruits and vegetables, fish, eggshells, even paper and cardboard can be used. Also leaves, and dead plants are very good, especially since you get a lot of them in the garden-cleaning. The only thing you need to avoid are meat scraps and diary products, they might produce unhealthy by-products in the decomposing process

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When choosing what plants you will use in your garden, you should consider mostly native species – they will not disturb the local ecology and will be easier to maintain in the climate. It is also good to leave at least a small area that will not be cultivated in any way – let the nature take care of it.

You should generally avoid fighting pests and weeds until it is absolutely necessary. Even then only limit its quantities rather than eliminating it completely. All kinds of insects and worms should be left to roam the garden peacefully, they are mostly useful creatures that will help the plants in going through their natural cycles.

With these advices in mind, you should be able to start a well functioning ecological garden.

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