How we should be gardening for the environment
What we can do to protect our natural world
The climate is warming. And our climate is changing because of global warming.
With the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, such as carbon dioxide, this causes the climate to warm and change. The ice caps melt, the sea levels rise and we start to experience severe weather.
So how can gardening help to mitigate the onset of climate change?
How can we protect our own little corner of the planet? By working in our gardens, we are actually doing our bit for the environment.
We all know that plants and trees take in carbon dioxide, a harmful gas in the atmosphere, and replace it with the clean oxygen that we all need. But as well as taking in these harmful gases, plants also take up chemicals leached into the soil through their roots.
So gardening not only improves the air quality, but also the quality of our soil too.
There are so many small things that we can be doing in our own back yards. Small things that will actually make a big difference to our environment and our planet.
