Simply put it is welcoming the natural world into your garden by maintaining healthy soil, controlling pests and diseases without synthetic chemicals and making and using your own compost.
Healthy Soil
Develop a living system of worms, fungi and microorganisms which transforms decaying plant material into rich soil
Maintain soil fertility by adding compost, manure and mulches
Use no-dig methods to improve soil structure
Controlling pests and diseases
Net to protect crops from flying insects and birds
Control slugs by night controls
Detect early signs of caterpillars and remove
Keep plants strong and healthy
Making and using your own compost
Compost: make and use your own
Use lawn mowings, leaves, kitchen and garden ‘waste’
Improves soil structure, retain moisture, encourages beneficial insects and worms
Adds nutrients which feed your plants
Grow strong, healthy plants resistant to pests and diseases
Welcoming the natural world into your garden
Leave areas to grow wild
Provide habitats which feed the birds
Build a pond
Choose native and bee-friendly plants
Leave nesting places for birds and insects
Don’t be too tidy!
Organic gardening is climate-friendly
Keeps carbon in the soil, trees, plants
Avoids fossil-based products
Doesn’t use peat
Recycles waste materials
Crops in your garden have zero food miles