Posted by Snow in Green gardening is capitalizing on a huge trend in post boomer culture: The back to basics home model. As a member of a civilization whose pride in cellophane wrapped microwaveable food, I can relate to the joy of learning about gardening almost for the first time. Some modern sustainable living technological helps are speeding the way to successful home gardening.
Organic foods and plants in grocery stores are on the rise. But personal preferences and individual household uses ask different requirements. Planting green vegetables and colorful fruits also reinforces the earth/planet conenction to young minds.
But when contaminants and chemical pesticides have remained in household estate soils for so long, what is the best method? A raised potting soil garden with frames and height can allow deep rooted plant stocks and cover crops to alternate between closed off root growing areas. Rotating vegetables and fruit plants can optimize soil components to nurture all the growing greenery.
Land loss through paving and agriculture, building and development can be resustained trough small effort home gardening of vegetables, oxygenating plants, flowers, and fruit. Fruit trees take longer to grow, and gardening means a green harvest for the salad bowl is one short season away. Composted soil, light and irrigation concerns, potential re-use and plant disease are the concerns of the green gardener.
Green gardens need the best possible start. Seed catalogs for new strains of genetically engineered vegetables add to the palette of ever garden planner today. Specifically incorporated traits like bug defestation and color, bloom time and soil absorption can change the profile of any garden successfully.
The sustainable gardner looks to use less or no chemical pesticides, herbicides, or fungicides, and must use what natural weapons science and Nature can devise. Responsible consumption demands that chemical pesticides used must be responsibly disposed of. Natural means over synthetic should rule in the garden for sustainable success.
Green gardens can reap the benefit of other shop and backyard projects. Re-use of scrap lumber, landscape soil, and harvesting rocks for a path can all be beneficial green living by-products of planning and implementing a green garden design.
Sidelining materials otherwise slated for the landfill saves fossil fuels and dumptruck energy. Just using a compost bucket instead of working the garbage disposal over a year’s time saves energy.
Careers in green living include organic gardening planners and landscape design experts who can lead the way coaching “budding” gardeners into the green home movement. The effects of ongoing green garden plant growing can bleed total costs out of the grocery bill. And locavores can’t get produce more close to home than the front yard.
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