Sustainable Gardening

In recent years, we’ve developed a greater sense of environmental responsibility. Why not take this ethos into the garden too?

Instead of buying plant labels you can make your own by washing out used plastic milk cartons and cutting them up into strips. Put a point on one end and use a permanent marker to write on them. Alternatively, use used ice lolly sticks.

Save the bottom of egg boxes as these make great little individual pots for starting off seedlings in, and the plastic containers that tomatoes or mushrooms come in can be reused by poking additional drainage holes in with a nail and using as trays for your seedlings.