Gardening And More

  Ways to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint While Gardening What is carbon gardening? Carbon gardening helps gardeners reduce the amount of carbon we release back into the atmosphere through our gardening practices. Carbon gardening starts with improving soil health and structure, garden design and incorporating the aspects of carbon gardening into the design. The design will include 80 percent natives to your region. Native plants to your region will form communities of connected and beneficial organisms. What’s so new about carbon gardening? It focuses on how we can reduce carbon emissions through our gardening practices. Some of the techniques we have already been doing, now there is more emphasis on how to reduce carbon emissions while gardening. There are several ways to carbon garden, growing your own food, don’t till the soil before you plant, using native plants in your region, buy locally sourced plants, mulch, and start using battery/cordless gardening equipment. By gr...

  Bring back the butterflies with this book: Gardening for the Butterflies: Designing and Creating a Butterfly-Friendly Landscape. The book is written for the novice or experienced gardener that wants to encourage butterflies to their area. The book is arranged alphabetically by botanical or scientific name. Over 100 species are featured and are arranged by plant usage - Trees, Shrubs, Vines, Annual, Perennials, and Herbs. Over 390 color photographs depicting some of the many butterfly plants and cultural requirements that will attract butterflies stating whether the species is nectar, larval host plant or both. After each section there is a nectar and larval food plants list. It’s simple to read and understand with step-by-step instructions for butterfly and container gardening. In recent years, the natural habitat of the butterfly has gradually diminished due to the rapid growth of modern cities and suburbs, climate change, extreme weather, and loss of native habitats. In ...