Article picked up from
National Wildlife Magazine April/May, 2009 Issue
P46 How Green is Your Garden?
National Wildlife Federation
Summary:
“With proper planning, native plants and some appropriate actions, homeowners can create carbon-neutral landscapes.”
Key Points:
• In order to make gardens carbon-neutral, we have to accumulate biomass-to grow a lot of plants and maximize the planting area.
• Reduce the size of lawn and replace lawn with a native wildflower meadow which will provide habitat for wildlife and require no watering after its young plants are established.
• Plant most of your property with low-maintenance native trees and shrubs.
• Use compost and mulch produced from garden trimmings to enrich your soil.
Useful Websites:
• Landscape for Energy Efficiency by U.S. Department of Energy www.eere.energy.gov
• NWF The Gardener’s Guide to Global Warming www.nwf.org/gardenersguide, www.nwf.org/personalsolutions & www.nwf.org/backyard
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