Organic Gardening DOs & DON'Ts
Encourage and protect beneficial insects
- Manage the whole garden organically - not just the fruit and vegetables
- Make the garden 'wildlife friendly', encouraging natural creatures to control pests.
- Learn to distinguish pests from predators
- Play to your garden's strengths, capitalising on its particular characteristics
- Make soil care a priority
- Make compost and leafmould to feed the soil
- Reuse and recycle, to cut down the use of finite resources and reduce disposal problems
- Use organically grown seeds as far as possible
- Consider the environmental implications when choosing materials for hard landscaping, fencing, soil improvement and so forth
- Collect rain water, and reduce the need for watering by improving the soil and growing appropriate plants
- Make local sources your first choice
- Stop using slug pellets!
- Control weeds without herbicides
- Avoid the use of preservative treated wood
- Say 'NO' to genetically modified varieties
For more detailed guidance on what is, and isn't organic,
have a browse through the Guidelines for Organic Gardeners
have a browse through the Guidelines for Organic Gardeners
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