Home Gardening Essentials: Ecological Gardening Experience (2024)

FAQs

What are the environmental impacts of home gardening? ›

Plants act as highly effective air cleaners, absorbing carbon dioxide, plus many air pollutants, while releasing clean oxygen and fragrance. Also, a dense cover of plants and mulch holds soil in place, reducing erosion and keeping sediment out of streams, storm drains and roads.

Earth-friendly Gardening benefits the environment.

Support pollinators and natural enemies. Save water and energy. Improve degraded soil for plant health and increased carbon capture. Recharge groundwater to keep it clean and abundant.

Eco-friendly gardening emphasizes organic matter, composting, and mulching, which promote healthier soils. Healthy soil is the foundation for successful and sustainable gardening, enabling plants to thrive naturally without the need for harmful chemicals.

In even the smallest space, you can create a habitat that encourages birds, pollinators, and other wildlife to thrive. Planting with California natives in your home garden can act as a “bridge,” connecting wildlife to nearby wildlands. Carbon Sequestration.

As stated earlier, growing indoors can eliminate the use of harmful pesticides and herbicides in your garden. This is great for your health, and the health of our planet as well. When growing indoors with hydroponics, we manage temperature and light conditions of our produce 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

A garden filters rainwater, provides habitat, reduces carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and can provide food to humans.

Choose plants by the site conditions—sun or shade, soil type (sandy, gravelly, clay or loam) and level of moisture. Create mini-habitats, combining plants from similar growing environments. Plants from the same habitat tend to “look” good together.

Permaculture is an approach to land management and settlement design that adopts arrangements observed in flourishing natural ecosystems.

It means to allow things to take their own course, without interference. Over time I have assuaged my guilt by counting ways in which being a lazy gardener has worked for me. 1. Sometimes nature will do your pruning for you.

How to create a garden ecosystem? ›

Environmental factors that affect plant growth include light, temperature, water, humidity and nutrition. It's important to understand how these factors affect plant growth and development.

If problems arise, start by understanding the needs of that particular species for light, soil, water, humidity, temperature, and fertilizer. If these environmental conditions are not ideal, they must be changed, or the houseplant must be moved to a location where they are ideal.

Gardening also serves as a way to bring communities together, helping each other out and bonding over a love for growing things, which Home Gardens aims to encourage through a neighborhood-based organization structure.

Oxygen: Through photosynthesis, plants use carbon dioxide, sunlight, and water to create energy and release oxygen. Recovery from natural disasters: Plants help protect soil from erosion and release nutrients to keep soils fertile.