Join us as we share with you Sustainable Gardening Tips & Tricks. Derica goes over the importance of Garden Design, Planting Natives, Water Conservation, Solar Lights, Compost, Organic Gardening Methods, Mulch, Trees, Electric or manual tools, and seed saving. Incorporating just a few of these practices can get you going on a more sustainable gardening path. Afterwards, take a look at the videos linked below that go into further detail on some of the sustainable gardening techniques.
Compost Basics for Beginners – Easy Tips and Tricks: https://youtu.be/Ypw1PT0cEEI
Sun Joe Electric Wood Chipper Shredder cj603e Review – Let’s Test it!: https://youtu.be/zRP2VoRM-Hs
Growing American Beautyberry – Native Edible: https://youtu.be/IQ2I-h08Ml4
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6 Comments
Thanks for the tips n tricks, very useful as a startup guide on sustainable gardening 🙂 I'll sure be watching this one a lot once I start my own. Cheers!
Thank you so much!
I love the sudden appearance of outside momma cat right after Derica says atmosphere @ 6:14. 😄
Companion planning is AMAZING! thank you
Thank you for this video! People often seem a little daunted by the idea of sustainable gardening. They also seem to think you need to go a full 100% sustainable but it isn’t necessary: every little bit helps. When replacing your lawn mower, considering saving a bit longer to get one that mulches is a great way to save up on fertiliser and on gallons of sweat schlepping the clippings to the compost. Collecting your kitchen scraps and dumping them in a tumbler isn’t a lot of work. Marigolds look pretty and you can grow your own if buying ready-to-plant ones is too expensive (so is ripping apart a bulb of garlic to grow your own). If collecting your rain water isn’t an option, something as simple as setting a little plastic tub in your sink and collecting the water from washing your dishes or hands to water the plants on your windowsill or patio can be an option that takes very little effort but you’d be surprised at how much waste water you collect… and your plants won’t mind the soap at all (not sure about watering vegetables with it although we did that when I lived in Africa), but flowers certainly won’t mind! Collecting fallen leaves in autumn and putting them at the feet of frost-sensitive plants to protect the root ball serves a dual purpose: the protection they offer, but also the fact that useful critters will take up residence there. Don’t burn those leaves… Planting flowers that attract pollinators is also a great way to help nature, and they look pretty to boot.
A lot of little things do add up.
Great video, and thankyou for the valuable information.