Good Gardening Checklist
We can use our gardens more thoughtfully and productively.
1. We can enhance community life,
2. We can be more food productive,
See Royal Horitcultural Society's grow your own page
3. We can be sensitive to habitat and wildlife.
See Natural England Booklets on Wildlife
See swift nest box data at swift conservation.org
( including how to build your own )
or buy from RSPB
Major decline of swifts in our villages ..help reverse this.
4. We can make a wildlife friendly pond
See the Pond Conservation Pond Creation Toolkit
People's trust for endangered species
Is a great source of good information and publications about how to make our gardens more helpful for important and endangered species including
advice on orchards and their link to wildlife, helping small mammals like hedgehogs etc etc
We can use our gardens more thoughtfully and productively.
1. We can enhance community life,
2. We can be more food productive,
See Royal Horitcultural Society's grow your own page
3. We can be sensitive to habitat and wildlife.
See Natural England Booklets on Wildlife
See swift nest box data at swift conservation.org
( including how to build your own )
or buy from RSPB
Major decline of swifts in our villages ..help reverse this.
4. We can make a wildlife friendly pond
See the Pond Conservation Pond Creation Toolkit
People's trust for endangered species
Is a great source of good information and publications about how to make our gardens more helpful for important and endangered species including
advice on orchards and their link to wildlife, helping small mammals like hedgehogs etc etc