Gardening isn’t just about being kinder to the environment, there are lots of other benefits:

You can make a big difference to the environment in your garden through a few simple changes:

Never use patio heaters – they just send inefficiently produced energy straight up into the air, as well as pumping out CO₂ and carbon monoxide.

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  buy FSC certified charcoal

  
  

Avoid concrete and asphalt, which are both highly processed and environmentally bad (it is estimated that 5-10% of all CO₂ emissions worldwide are related to the production and use of concrete and asphalt).

On a hot summer day, when supplies are at their most stretched, over 50% of the UK’s domestic water supply is used by gardeners, and a lot of that water will simply be wasted. There are several ways the garden’s water needs can be reduced: