Now that spring’s shaking out its feathers, let’s rediscover outside spaces. A little shift in your practices and approach could make all the difference to how you personally connect to your garden (even a few square metres of balcony) and how it serves the wider natural world.
Eyeing up the green, glassy horror of our outdoor entertainment spaces can send many of us charging to the aisles of DIY outlets. Heavy chemistry is deployed to annihilate algae, mosses and small biological growth, and these cocktails leach off into the groundwater, not just killing the weedy stuff but everything they dribble into.
Think about your garden as part of a wider landscape, even if you’re nestled in the suburbs. There are several Earth-friendly leave-and-forget products to strip the…