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How to Garden the Low Carbon Way: The Steps You Can Take to Help Combat Climate Change
Create a beautiful home garden while reducing your carbon footprint along the way
Transform your outdoor space into a low-impact, carbon-absorbing sink with this fantastic gardening guide, packed with ideas to grow a climate-friendly garden that will help protect the planet.
Keen on starting your own garden but unsure about your environmental impact? This guide will give you practical advice on which soil to use, plants that are best for absorbing carbon dioxide, low-carbon fertilizers, and cutting out single-use plastic. What’s more, this garden book is completely backed by scientific research!
Share in the delight of eco-conscious gardening when you start using How to Garden the Low Carbon Way as your guide. Explore the benefits of no-dig gardening, how to use fewer plants, using hedges instead of fences, how to grow shrubs that support wildlife, and more!
This green gardening book will make growing your own garden easy, enjoyable, and eco-friendly and includes sections on;
• How to grow plants that reduce your carbon footprint
• Creating a garden that considers the local wildlife
• Tips on setting up your garden, low-impact plants, and best fertilizers to use
Green Low environmental impact
This fantastic gardening book is a simple, step-by-step guide to learn about gardening or to reference as your garden grows. You’ll quickly become acquainted with the benefits of growing a garden that positively contributes to the environment. Plus, you'll have all the fun, rewards a gardening hobby has to offer.
Transform your outdoor space into a low-impact, carbon-absorbing sink with this fantastic gardening guide, packed with ideas to grow a climate-friendly garden that will help protect the planet.
Keen on starting your own garden but unsure about your environmental impact? This guide will give you practical advice on which soil to use, plants that are best for absorbing carbon dioxide, low-carbon fertilizers, and cutting out single-use plastic. What’s more, this garden book is completely backed by scientific research!
Share in the delight of eco-conscious gardening when you start using How to Garden the Low Carbon Way as your guide. Explore the benefits of no-dig gardening, how to use fewer plants, using hedges instead of fences, how to grow shrubs that support wildlife, and more!
This green gardening book will make growing your own garden easy, enjoyable, and eco-friendly and includes sections on;
• How to grow plants that reduce your carbon footprint
• Creating a garden that considers the local wildlife
• Tips on setting up your garden, low-impact plants, and best fertilizers to use
Green Low environmental impact
This fantastic gardening book is a simple, step-by-step guide to learn about gardening or to reference as your garden grows. You’ll quickly become acquainted with the benefits of growing a garden that positively contributes to the environment. Plus, you'll have all the fun, rewards a gardening hobby has to offer.
192 pages, Paperback
Published March 2, 2021
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D.K. Publishing
10.2k books2,231 followersDorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a consumer publishing company jointly owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson PLC. Bertelsmann owns 53% of the company and Pearson owns 47%.
Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.
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Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.
Source: Wikipedia.
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March 8, 2022
This how-to book is written for UK readers, and would likely be better appreciated there. Finding “a local garden tool maker” was one of many suggestions that seemed difficult or impossible here — and perhaps there as well. Some of the materials and plants discussed are not native to the States, a point I found frustrating.
In fact, a surprising number of recommended plants aren’t native to the UK either. Fair enough, the focus is low carbon gardens. To my mind, though, one might as well also garden to support native wildlife, a point discussed by Nex here and there. And that means using native plants nearly exclusively.
Some of the suggestions are described superficially or even inadequately; I sometimes couldn’t understand the instructions. Others, such as solar greenhouse construction could benefit from a chapter or even a whole book, but are covered in a couple of pages.
That is the book’s strength too. It is very brief, and includes many ideas, quickly described. I often found myself skimming, because I’m already familiar and following the prescribed practice. Don’t use pesticides, for example. Compost garden waste.
Beginning gardeners will find many useful ideas, and more experienced gardens will find a few nuggets too. The why of no-till gardening is well explained. Building a “fedge” (fence-hedge) is a good use of larger woody waste and provides homes for wildlife (though at four feet wide, it’s best for larger properties). Nex’s book is still worth flipping through for several interesting ideas and some very basic environmentally sound gardening practices.
In fact, a surprising number of recommended plants aren’t native to the UK either. Fair enough, the focus is low carbon gardens. To my mind, though, one might as well also garden to support native wildlife, a point discussed by Nex here and there. And that means using native plants nearly exclusively.
Some of the suggestions are described superficially or even inadequately; I sometimes couldn’t understand the instructions. Others, such as solar greenhouse construction could benefit from a chapter or even a whole book, but are covered in a couple of pages.
That is the book’s strength too. It is very brief, and includes many ideas, quickly described. I often found myself skimming, because I’m already familiar and following the prescribed practice. Don’t use pesticides, for example. Compost garden waste.
Beginning gardeners will find many useful ideas, and more experienced gardens will find a few nuggets too. The why of no-till gardening is well explained. Building a “fedge” (fence-hedge) is a good use of larger woody waste and provides homes for wildlife (though at four feet wide, it’s best for larger properties). Nex’s book is still worth flipping through for several interesting ideas and some very basic environmentally sound gardening practices.
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