How To Ensure Sustainable Gardening Practices

By Betty Walker


A healthy living is achieved when people engage in practices that proper care to the environment. In the agricultural sector, Sustainable Gardening Practices have been emphasized to reduce environmental pollution. The following discussion focuses to create awareness on how to keep up the practices.

To begin with, you need to engage yourself in a tree planting exercise, which may include no food trees. The very importance of trees is air conditioning during the summer time because they bring about cooling effect. When you find that at your place there is limited space to do the activity, you can associate yourself with any particular society in the community that practices planting of trees.

The other method that can be employed to achieve the practices is producing your own out of chemical food. This will help because you will not cover any long distance trying to get food. The water used for domestic purposes can be used to water the crops, therefore, saving it. Avoiding movement means that you also save on fuel that could have been used by an automobile.

Disposing of your litter both from the kitchen and garden is the other effective practice. The refuse should be dumped in a private compost pit that will form manure to be used in subsequent crop production. This will help in avoiding chemical sources of topping up soil fertility because it may lead to pollution of the environment.

You need to be extra careful on how you manage your crops in the field. Before you think of inorganic sources of soil fertility and pest control, have a thought on any other alternative. You can use compost manure to replenish the ability of your soil and introduce the biological way of controlling the pests in your field.

Some weeds are disastrous to the environment and their effects should be stopped by all means. When you find such weeds at your place, you need to take a responsible action of uprooting or restricting their spread. To ensure that the information gets too many people in a given locality, you can team up with farmers having similar thoughts with you. This way, the knowledge on sustainable gardening will get to be embraced in the society.

Human will always find a way of making activities efficiently done. In sustained environmental sustainability, powered tools are to be put aside despite their contribution towards making farming less tiresome. In this case, you should not only think of what the machine will help you do but also its effects on the environment. The machines can be used in the activities but not frequently.

The last method of ensuring sustained farming is making use of renewable products in the farm activities. You can only be sure a product can be reused if you check how it has been manufactured therefore this is a step every farmer should not assume. It will help reduce the piling up of hazardous products in your place. Diversifying what you plant in your place is important in improving biodiversity and also creating a dwelling for the animals.




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