What is Green Gardening?

What is green?

Many people use the level"green"," Eco-friendly" and "sustainable" when it is comes to gardening or farming what they do  really mean? 

Sustainable gardening or sustainable farming management employ techniques that:

no use of  fertilizer

*Have minimal impact on the environment- from using little

 or no artificially chemicals (pesticides,herbicides,chemical fertilizers)

 to reducing use of powered devices in the care of landscape.

 All those grass trimmers, flower blowers and lawnmowers

 are not only pollutes the air and also leads for noise pollution.

rain water collector 

     *Make the best use of available resources:

       Use of barrels to collect rain water, arranging of                                garden areas to make use of rain water overflow,                                mulching soil with leaves to retain moisture in soil                            using of kitchen waste to make compost, enriching                            soil with native weeds and other plant parts.

*Save the gardeners money and time:

For example, when it is hard to mow drainage ditches are replaced with easy-to-maintain rain gardens planted with native plants that tolerate that environment, significant savings in time and the cost of running machinery are made.

*Reducing carbon dioxide and increasing oxygen:

As we know a large biomass increases the amount of photosynthesis-- which is a magical process in which carbon dioxide and water are converted into sugar and oxygen as a byproduct in the presence of sunlight.

*Decreasing of the heat absorbed and sorted by urban & semi urban buildings, roads and other hard objects:

A landscape with more trees, shrubs and non-destroyed perennials will absorb more water and ultimately the transpiration will be more, which will put water vapor into the atmosphere and reduces the average temperature.

providing butterfly and bees a habitat is easy   

*Increases habitat for wildlife including

 birds, bees,butterfly and other critters:

The sustainable ecosystem supports an 

active ecosystem, where plants, animals,birds 

and microbes are depends on each other.

*Prevent  damage to underground infrastructures:

In other words don't start digging until you know the location of underground infrastructures like pipe lines, telephone lines, optic fibers, electric cables etc.

*Prepare for disaster like cyclone, hurricane, drought & flood:

design your landscape or garden to withstand or minimal damage when the disaster is sustainable, because after disaster repair cost will be less or you have fewer plants to replace.