How to Create an Eco Garden: The Practical Guide to Sustainable and Greener Gardening

by John Walker

Eco gardening can lessen our overconsumption of natural resources, reduce waste, cut energy use, and make a positive contribution to reducing our carbon footprint. Each page of this planet-friendly book is bursting with ideas for creating your own eco garden on any scale from a small courtyard to a large garden or allotment. Find out how to make soil-building compost from kitchen and household waste, how to save energy by harvesting rainwater, and how to utilise sunlight in your garden. Discover organic techniques that improve biodiversity and attract pest-eating animals and insects. Learn the value of using recycled and reclaimed materials for landscaping. Six eco garden ‘greenprints' are packed with environmentally friendly ideas. Simple projects include making a pond and a wildlife hotel, turning a lawn into a wildflower meadow, and planting a ‘fedge'. Packed with practical advice and 500 photographs, this book is for everyone who wants a beautiful, productive backyard that won't cost the earth.

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction, Nature

160 pages, Hardcover

Published March 3, 2020

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Reviews

[Mary Beth · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is filled with ways to create an eco garden. It has lots of ways to transform an existing garden into one that is more friendly to the planet. I found it helpful to remind me what isn’t really eco-friendly. It offers tool guides and plant guides to get you on a good path. It explains about companion planting and how to use plants to create bio diversity in the garden. A very good read.

[Dan Osborne · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some great ideas but the advice to 'squash' some insects rather than just remove and relocate them downgraded the book for me along with the lack of info on bee hotels needed an overhang as a vital part of the structure.

[Judy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of great advise and tips. My seed list has expanded to include a lot more flowers for in and around my vegetable garden.