Sustainable Harborough Community
The Great Garden Battle!
Those of us with a garden area or a patch of land nearby, like a grass verge, can join the battle for saving our soils, bees and insects by abandoning the use of pesticides. Instead the Pesticides Action Network www.pan-uk.org with its amazing list of alternatives, can lead us on an exciting journey into life changing alternatives.
(Confession time – I have the privilege of living with family who look after the garden most wonderfully, vibrant with life.)
The Pesticides Action Network website has a whole list of common pests, from aphids and apple scab through to winter moths and wire worms, and how to treat them naturally.
They also have a report about pet poisoning, a seemingly growing problem since no official figures are available, just those from the Veterinary Poisons Information Service.
If your lawn is your passion there is a very interesting article on the website about how to look after it so that is becomes its own ecosystem.
See www.pan-uk.org/an-organic-lawn/
It’s hard to change mindsets of years and it seems to be especially important to men to have to mow the lawn that looks immaculate. The article describes how to change that, mixing a variety of grasses with some plants too. Fear not because it also describes removing the ones that will take over the lawn.if given the chance, and when how to mow it.
The outcome is a wildlife haven that greatly benefits your lawn and that will give you immense pleasure, thanks to the insects and birds that will flourish there.
What’s not to like! (At the Event, The Farm Comes to Harborough on August 9th in the Harborough Town Square, Russell Attwood, of the National Allotments Society, will explain more.)
Julie Fagan, volunteer, Sustainable Harborough Community and Eco Churches
Kibworth Community Library – VE Day Display
