How To Create Your Own Eco-Friendly Garden

You may be asking yourself the question: "Why do I need an eco-friendly garden?"

By maintaining an eco-friendly garden, you'll be contributing in a very real way to improving the environment and reducing the damage caused by modern living. Simple changes on a small level can result in marked differences to the health of the planet, slowing down 'The Greenhouse Effect' and improving the environment for future generations.

An eco-friendly garden employs a few simple solutions to make a real impact on our individual carbon footprint. Here are 5 relatively simple home solutions you can put in place right now.

1. Create a compost heap
Recycled garden and kitchen waste is the perfect recipe for creating your own compost heap! Simply start a pile in a sunny or semi-shaded area of your garden. Over the course of the year, nature will have created the ingredients for some rich compost ready to use as fertilizer across your garden or allotment. This is a great way to save money and help the environment. Furthermore, it will provide great satisfaction knowing you're taking part in the natural recycling process of your garden!

2. Install solar lighting
It's not as expensive as you think to use solar light to power your garden technology.
Of course the first use for solar power that springs to mind is using it for lighting. As the sun goes down, what could be prettier than looking around the garden and seeing soft lighting across your landscape, provided for free and without damage to the environment? Solar lights are simple and cheap and they have enough power to illuminate trees, plants, rocks or pathways.
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