How to make your garden sustainable and eco-friendly with easy, practical tips. And this will save you money, too!
Whether you’re starting from scratch or you’re already a keen gardener, find out how to make your garden greener.
Find a useful list of my favourite sustainable gardening products conveniently listed together on the Middlesized Garden’s Amazon store : https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/themiddle-sizedgarden
(Links to Amazon are affiliate links, which means I may get a small fee if you buy, but it won’t affect the price you pay. And I would only recommend products I really think you’d like!):
Go to the Middlesized Garden blog for a sustainable garden checklist and post: https://www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/how-to-create-an-easy-sustainable-garden/
To find out more about making your own compost, see: https://www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/do-you-want-easy-compost-or-fast-compost/
To find out more about using seashell mulch for a garden path, see: https://www.themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk/a-seashell-garden-path-is-it-the-best-and-most-attractive-option/
To buy Nutley’s wood plant labels from Amazon (affiliate link):https://amzn.to/2KQ75Uz
You can find a stockist for Westland’s New Horizon Bio3 Peat-free compost from https://www.gardenhealth.com/our-brands/new-horizon or buy via Amazon (affiliate link): https://amzn.to/2VDpPL4
To find out how to build a bat box:https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/actions/how-build-bat-box
To find out advice from the RSPB on gardening for wildlife:https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/advice/gardening-for-wildlife/insects-and-minibeasts/
Organic and no-dig gardening uses sustainable garden practices. I can highly recommend Charles Dowding’s No Dig YouTube channel if you’d like to learn more about it: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB1J6siDdmhwah7q0O2WJBg
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24 Comments
Some very useful tips, thank you. I didn't get on well with wooden plant labels though as I found writing in pencil or even permanent ink disappeared when they got wet. Hope you have more success with them 😊
We have a grower's outlet where we buy our plants that requests return of the black plastic pots, which they reuse. It encourages me to shop there as when I start accumulating too many pots I feel the need to visit them ( although I don't need a reason). Will have to look for purchase of compost in reusable bags as it bothers me that I throw out so much plastic in the purchase of soil and compost.
Absolutely wonderful – I just love the information you provide us! Thank you so much ☺️
Happy Easter Alexandra, I love seeing useable shell path 💕💜💗🎈💖❤️😍👍 so beautiful. (I wish I was able to get that here). I always look forward to your videos, thank you for sharing. Take care and God Bless, Chris-Raleigh NC
Great video, wish I had those beautiful shells here in the states, I live in the Mid Atlantic where the oyster shell is used, big ones, not so pretty. I'm glad you're sharing links for bug hotels an bat houses, both of which I've wanted to have in the garden for some time now, now I can do it right, Thanks for sharing.
This was so great and helpful! Thank you so much.☺️💜I love seeing your garden along with the tips.
Lots of good ideas here, thanks. I have a huge tub of various timber stakes and metal/plastic supports in the garden shed, for regular reuse. They do look rather grotty after two years however once a plant grows up and over them you dont't look at the stakes, you look at the beautiful plant.
I have a unique method of composting which works well for me and results in rich compost with a lot of humus, bits of half decomposed twigs, leaves, etc. It retains moisture incredibly well in the garden and plants can live off the moisture and food provided by further decomposition for an entire season. I like the hot composting method, enabled by copious quantities of used coffee grounds, free from my local cafe.
The most vexing sustainability issue is those horrid plastic pots. Why don't garden centres grow plants inside fibre pots which sit inside plastic pots? When the customer buys a plant, the garden centre removes the fibre pot from the plastic pot, keeps the plastic pot for reuse, and hands over the (wet) fibre pot to the customer, who can place it in their own plastic resusable pot (that they brought from home) to take home? Well, this idea might have flaws but they had better come up with something feasible soon as we all feel guilty looking at those piles of accumulated black plastic pots sitting in sheds or a remote corner of the yard, gathering dust.
Im new to gardening and I'm in love with your information thank you sooo much you now have a new subscriber..
Tqtq….for sharing all your wonderful tips…very interesting and brilliant ideas…😍…👍
What's the 'fast' way to make compost, where can I find out?
Wonderful, inspiring video. Thank you for posting.
I understand that it takes a lot of work to create wonderful shows and full of inspiration! Thank you☀️🌺👏👏💕🍷
I do like your channel. So many useful and practical ideas.
nurseries here take the black pots back.
Great video – thank you!
I bought the wooden plant labels only to find that water wicks up them and suddenly you can't read what you've written on them! So I couldn't remember which variety of tomato was which. I just recently ordered 8" plastic ones which I plan on reusing repeatedly. Perhaps if my memory were better I wouldn't need to rely on plant labels, but age is creeping up on me. I'll probably leave these plastic labels in my will to my son to inherit and he can contend with them. Ha!
I grow willow trees and coppice them to make my trellises. I also mainly plant drought resistant flowers so I barely have to water. And saving seeds helps a lot.
Note: If you buy Peat based soil in the northern USA, if it is from Canada, it is sustainable.
Wow, I hadn't seen this episode but I just found it while looking for some info on sustainable gardening. A lot of the videos out there just focus on food production which is only one element. This is a great list of tips, and shows another side of your brilliance! I think some of these areas could be extrapolated – I want to learn about soil in particular, and how to improve it in an ecological way.
Thank you Alexandra, this is such a great start for my research into sustainable gardening for a college project!!
I loved this! Thank you from Vancouver, WA – USA. DA
It’s still difficult to buy peat free compost. But I thank you for using your platform to shout about peat free because it is a huge step to create demand.
Hello from Boston, Alexandra! Thank you for a phenomenally helpful garden video. I am all about recycling and keeping our birds and wildlife happy in my garden!
Your videos are SO helpful even though I'm an ex-pat in NC USA
Lile your haircut in this video, very nice