A garden for many people is just about maintenance and doing something in the meantime in order to not get bored. It’s also something that helps you stay productive the older you get and the less maneuverable you become.
However, a garden is basically your little slice of mother nature, and she is incredibly resourceful. Everyone knows it by now, and scientists, as well as economists, are in full agreement about the future. It will be about being self-sustainable and relying less and less on the state to look after each household. Whether it’s solar panels on your roof to power your appliances and electricity, or simply using cheaper tools around you to keep warm and healthy.
Of course a garden can also be used for growing food, but equally as important is the eco-friendly way in which you can use nature to improve your living standard as winter approaches.
Compost heap
Cutting the grass and mowing the lawn are the most common forms of upkeeping a garden. The many kilos of grass put in bags and wasted over the year is quite a loss. You could, in fact, buy a [amazon_textlink asin=’B003ZFW0YQ’ text=’compost container’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’mygardening411-21′ marketplace=’UK’ link_id=’171b12d1-ae01-11e7-9f06-79a50ec89bb4′], and keep all the trimmings of your garden inside it.
When you’re trimming a plant and cutting the branches off, and twigs, you should be crushing and cutting them up to put inside the container. If you’re growing vegetables every spring and summer season, you should be saving the fruits and vegetables which have gone off, been infected or just simply squashed and become inedible, to put inside the container.
All the nutrients and the minerals from the food and grass, left in the container, will soon emulsify and become top quality compost. Every month you should drench the heap in water and let it rest again. By using natural compost, you can even grow vegetable all year round.
Heating your home
Central heating is great, but really, it’s a blanket technology. Once you turn it on in your home, the entire home is being heated. However, because the system is linked to all rooms, this means that each room sucks energy and heat from all the others in the home. This means it takes longer for one radiator to become hot enough to warm the room you’re in.
With a pellet stove, you can heat up your home in a much more effective and cheaper way during the colder months. However, pellet stoves are somewhat complex and need to be maintained because although they’re effective, they’re generally small. It’s understandable then that you may need pellet stove parts for less.
Pellets are compressed wood, straw, and other biomasses that allow the pellets to burn, hot and slow engorging the room the stove is in with lots of heat. Great for during winter and very eco-friendly.
Living a life that is sustainable is the future, but luckily, some methods of low cost and high efficiency have been around for a long time.
Compost heaps will help you to grow food during the colder months with a little extra effort, but pellet stoves don’t need a lot of power to heat up your home. Both of these eco-friendly techniques could help improve your life for as long as you live.
