A 'Green' garden is a sustainable system that uses the least amount of imported nutrients, produces abundant crops, and generates little waste.
It uses little or no petroleum in its creation or maintenance, produces no pollution, and and improves your life and environment through less noise, cost, and pollution.
Save water, as much as 87%
Prevent weeds and save work
Feed your soil's living material
Suppress many garden diseases
Often available for little or no cost
Select plants and varieties suited to this area
Provide them with the right environment
Adapted varieties are often low-care, low-water
Select fruiting trees and shrubs over ornamentals
Beautiful trees and shrubs provide delicious fruit
Bring wild life to your back yard
Water intelligently!
We live in a desert! Conserve!
Use drip systems, and keep them in good repair
Water only when the plants need water
Save water
prevent disease
cut your monthly bill
Stop Pollution
reduce or eliminate yard chemical 'cides' and fertilizing
Design for water retention to prevent run-off
Consider rain-water harvesting, porous hardscapes to save your 'free' water
For a couple of good references, I recommend:
'Sustainable Landscaping for Dummies' by Owen Dell
and the 'Green Gardener's Guide' by Joe Lamp'l.
Both of these books are reviewed here. I own and have read both of these books, and there is valuable information in both that you can start applying today.
