Ways To Decrease Your Carbon Footprint Through your Garden
We all know that having a garden is a great way to decrease the impact that you are having on the earth and its natural resources. What most of us do not know is how we can further reduce our carbon footprint of our indoor or outdoor garden. Today we are going to be talking about some of the various things that you can do to make your garden more self sufficient and less of an environmental pothole.
The very first and probably the biggest way that your garden is hurting the environment is through fertilizers and pesticides. People often do not think of this as hurting but all of the manmade chemicals and by products produced in the creation of these applications contribute to polluting both our streams and the ground, and our landfills. To remedy this problem try switching to organic or green fertilizers such as manure or compost and for pesticides try natural options such as a garlic spray or nicotine to keep critters at bay.
If you have an indoor garden try switching from your costly high intensity discharge grow lights, to more cost effective and less energy drawing LED grow lights. LED grow lights can save over half the cost that you would otherwise be spending on other types of conventional grow lights; they also produce less heat which reduces the need to cool the area which further reduces the cost involved.
Crop rotation is another thing that a person can do that will over time greatly helps both himself and his environment. To properly rotate your crops just simply grow one crop one growing season and do not grow that same crop on that same piece of land until you have cycled all of your other crops through it first. The reason that crop rotation helps out your land so much is that it gives your land the nutrients back that it needs to produce full crops and it does not such the land baron leaving it un-farmable.