Go "Green" Gardening Tips or Go Home!

GO GREEN GARDENING OR GO HOME! You are trying to live as green as you can. You grow some of your own food so you can avoid chemicals being put on it, you recycle PET plastics, paper, glass, and aluminum. Are you really doing all you can?   You can probably be even greener by doing more recycling and reusing more for your gardening, possibly think about purchasing one of many various outdoor greenhouse kits of some sort. Green gardening can use containers that are not recyclable for container gardens instead of throwing them away. Instead of putting grass clippings and organic kitchen garbage out with the trash, use them for compost.  You can use empty egg cartons to start seeds in. Even eggshells can be used if you are careful in breaking them open. Once the seedlings are ready to be transplanted, break the shells, and leave the plants in them when you put them in the garden. The shells will provide some nutrients to the soil. Containers of various sizes can be used for container gardening. Coffee cans, ice cream buckets and many others are great for some of the small, compact plants. Even smaller containers make good herb gardening containers.   Those domed bakery cake boxes make great miniature greenhouses and hot houses for cloning plants. Empty yogurt cups can be used to hold the cuttings for cloning or for starting seeds. No need to buy those little pots for starting seeds or an expensive cloning setup when you can use items you already have. Today, a popular product model is the lean to greenhouses , that attach to the side of the gardeners home or carport area.   Want to grow potatoes but don't like the idea of cutting through some of your potatoes when digging them up? Grow them in old barrels or trashcans. It eliminates weeding and most garden pests and, when it is time to harvest, tip the barrel or can over, dump out the plant with the soil. All you have to do then is shake the potatoes loose. No shovel is needed.   Green gardening is easy and a lot more economical. Look around you for things you can use before you buy.

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