To grow your own organic food is a nice way to empower yourself from supermarkets and save money. No-dig gardening is better for your back, but it means no garden forks or spades accidentally harming creatures like earthworms or baby stag beetles (big grubs in soil).
The Super Organic Gardener shows how to grow food without bone meal or fish meal. Learn of the environmental and animal welfare issues of traditional gardening, then learn how to be a super organic gardener! You’ll learn how to make natural fertiliser and compost, and share your plot with wildlife.
Use no-dig gardening to protect wildlife. Use fruit protection bags (over netting, which can trap birds and wildlife). Learn how to create gardens safe for pets (use humane slug/snail deterrents). Avoid facing indoor foliage to outdoor gardens, to help stop birds flying into windows.
- Soil
- Compost
- Fertilisers
- Grow to Eat
- What to Grow/Cook
- Organic Suppliers
- Wildlife
- Animals and Gardens
If your gardening relies on slaughterhouse by-products, then you support this slaughter. If your personal ethics mean you don’t want to do this, then there is another way. This involves making your own compost and fertilisers, letting ‘pests’ live, allowing wildlife to be wild (and even creating habitats for them). And avoid exploiting any animals to further your hobby.
About the Author
Matthew Appleby is an award-winning garden journalist, who writes for many newspapers and garden magazines. He has broken numerous stories in the last 15 years including ash dieback reaching the UK and biosecurity/horticulture policy.
