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Learn how to to encourage plants and wildlife in your garden!
Top ten tips for turning your own garden into a more eco-friendly zone:
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1. Have a bird table. |
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2. Have a pond. |
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3. Try to avoid slug pellets, aphid sprays, herbicides and pesticides. |
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4. Use a fine-mesh netted caged around fruit and vegetables to keep pests out. |
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5. Don’t burn – make compost! |
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6. Go for the greatest possible variety in your garden design and plantings. Lots of habitats and many different kinds of plants will greatly increase the richness of the wildlife. |
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7. Choose plants for berries, seeds and fruit as well as flowers. |
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8. Aim for flowers all through the year as a nectar and pollen source. |
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9. Put up bat, bird, insect and other boxes (obtainable from many suppliers or build your own. |
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10. Don’t be too tidy (wildlife needs places to live and hide, micro-habitats such as a weedy corner, hollow stems left on herbaceous plants in winter, a pile of leaves, ivy left on trees, etc.). |
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11. Keep a garden wildlife diary. Learn to identify the species you see and keep records. |
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