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How you can help to limit damage to the environment by 'green gardening'.

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It is estimated that there are over 30,000 hectares of private garden in Greater London. Allotments, window boxes, school and business grounds also form significant areas. Gardeners are constantly make decisions about how to maintain and enhance their gardens, decisions about what to plant, how to improve the quality of their soil, how best to control pests can all impact the local environment and wildlife.

Responsible use of garden pesticides and fertilisers

Pesticides can have a lasting effect on species otherwise welcome in the garden. Ladybirds, slow-worms, blue tits and hedgehogs all help control garden pests.

Overfeeding of plants with artificial fertilisers wastes money and can pollute water. A quarter of everything you throw into the bin could be used to make compost to help your garden grow.
'Weeds' are simply wildflowers which are in the wrong place and many do not cause problems; daisies, for example, add colour to an otherwise green lawn and attract beneficial insects such as bees.

What can you do? 

Sustainable use of garden materials and resources

In the quest for the perfect garden, increasing pressures have been placed on water, peat, timber and rock supplies and many habitats have been damaged in the process.

These are requirements which many gardeners consider fundamental, but it important that steps are taken to reduce or eliminate these demands.
What can you do? 

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