Climate-friendly garden.
What Is Included in This Post:
How to Grow A Climate-Friendly Garden
Best Plants for A Climate-Friendly Garden
Implement Gardening Practices for A Climate-Friendly Garden
Small Home Gardeners Making Huge Climate-Changing Impacts
Climate-friendly gardening is a way of gardening that reduces emissions of greenhouse gases that gardens can produce and encourage the absorption of carbon dioxide from the soil and plants to aid in the reduction of global warming.
You may think your little home garden cannot make a difference in the combat against climate change, however, it does in comparison to other gardeners who are growing and building healthy plants and fertile soils.
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How to Grow A Climate-Friendly Garden
I live in Northern Utah and I have been experiencing an extreme difference in my climate from living in extreme record-breaking droughts and blizzards. Basically, I have learned we are releasing more heat-trapping gases into our atmosphere than what we are storing, which is causing our earth’s temperature to raise dramatically, which is causing extreme temperature changes such as these severe blizzards and droughts.
As a home gardener, here are some actions you and I can take to help make a difference.
Best Plants for A Climate Friendly Garden
As a gardener, you have the power to help reverse the accumulation of heat-trapping gases by growing broadleaved plants and building dark, rich, healthy soil, which keeps carbon out of the atmosphere for many years and can remove 21% of annual greenhouse gas emissions in our country.
To help generate more photosynthesis and absorb more heat, it is best to plant plants that have a larger surface area of leaves to help combat climate change. Plant trees like maple, oak, and beech trees along with plenty of shrubs, which are perfect choices to add to your climate-friendly garden.
Broad Leaf Plants:
- Maple trees.
- Oak trees.
- Beech trees.
- Shrubs.
Implement Gardening Practices for A Climate-Friendly Garden
No-Till Gardening: Practice not tilling your garden and use the lasagna garden method. Rather than tilling up your soil, add organic matter in layers that can decompose into the soil, creating nutrient-rich fertile soil that plants love.
Composting and Vermaculture: Implement composting bins and vermiculture into your gardening practices. Home composting can help reduce greenhouse gases.
Plants for Pollinators: Grow a ton of flowers for pollinators to attract and sustain pollinator populations and eliminate insecticides that kill bees. The best plants for pollinators that I like to grow are rose, lavender, mint, sage, thyme, oregano, sunflower, borage, and onion. When these plants flower, they attract bees like crazy. These plants are perennials and it is best to focus on planting more perennials in your garden.
Avoid Using Gas-Powered Equipment: Take up your Amish arms and weed and rake and shovel and cultivate your home lawn and garden by hand. What? Hey, it’s good exercise!
Care for Your Soil: Plant ground covers in the off seasons of your flowers or vegetables to prevent soil loss, avoid weeds, and store carbon. Bare soil turns into bad soil, so be sure to keep it covered.
Climate-Friendly Garden Practices:
- No-Till Gardening.
- Composting and Vermiculture.
- Plants for Pollinators.
- Avoid Using Gas-Powered Equipment.
- Care for Your Soil.
Small Home Gardeners Making Huge Climate-Changing Impacts
While you may think that your little home garden has no chance in the fight against climate change, keep in mind these small gardening practices can make a difference. Home gardeners are important guardians of our environment and growing together can make an impact to reduce greenhouse gases.
Summary
I hope I have inspired you to plant your own climate-friendly garden and begin to help reduce greenhouse gases. And remember, small home gardeners can make a huge impact on climate change.
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Here are some more of my gardening inspiration posts to check out!
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