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Practicing Green Arithmetic in Your Garden
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Green
Waste=pruning replanted=preserving natural resources=more
trees=more
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Grow more plants and
vegetables in your garden and backyard.
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Most plants can be reproduced
from cuttings.
Bring along a pair of clean garden scissors and a plastic bag during walks in
your neighbourhood. You never know what you can find discarded
outside your neighbours' homes or in
the neighbourhood garden. Bring along a small bottle of
water or a wet kitchen towel if you will be out for a while. Wet the
plastic bag before placing
cuttings in or wrap wet kitchen towel around the cut ends to prevent them from drying out.
There may also be some
interesting seeds to pick up along the way.
Make
friends with your neighbours and get them to provide you cuttings from
their prunings. Request them to place these in a container of water
and place them under a shady corner for your next visit.
Useful Resources
For the kinds of fruits and vegetable you can
grow and how you can go about it, check out:
Ministry
of Agriculture
Fiskars Brands, Inc
All you want to know about propagating plants:
Propagating
Plants In And Around The Home
Propagating Plants
For The Home Landscape
Plant Propagation
How
to Prune Trees
Seeds
Starting Tips for Indoor Plants
Home
Harvest Seeds
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If you plan to plant from seeds note this philosophy:
The Law of the Seed
Take a look at an apple tree. There might be five hundred apples on the tree, but each apple has just ten
seeds. That's a lot of seeds!
We might ask, "Why would you need so many seeds to grow just a few more
apple trees?" Nature has something to teach us here. It's telling us: "Not all seeds grow.
In life, most seeds never grow.
So if you really want to make something happen, you had better try more
than once."
More Tips and Ideas
A to Z Guide to
An Environmentally Friendly
Garden
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Waste
composted=less waste=less eyesore+less stench |
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Making Your Own Compost
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The
best way to
reduce food and garden waste is to compost
them. Compost
provide nutrients to your soil, which helps your plants grow.
Useful Resources
All
About Composting
Compost Using
Worms
Compost
& Mulch
Build
a Compost Bin
How to
Find Free Compost
Ingredients
Pit or
Trench Composting
Testing Compost Maturity
Solving Compost Problems
Recycled Tire Mulch Disks
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Alternatives-chemical waste=less pollution |
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To Make
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Useful Resources
Home-Made
Formulas
to get rid of insects in your home
Gardening: Diseases & Pests
How to get rid of ants naturally
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Wasteś(reuse+recycle)=reduced
waste=healthier environments |
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<Waste+>Constructive
Usage=conserving natural resources |
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Finds
ways to reduce waste by making use of them in your garden |
Coconut shells and plastic bags in action solution
for one of your "I run out of space to grow plants" excuses.
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