Organic gardening does not use man-made pesticides or fertilizers or other dangerous chemicals. It's natural and rewarding, and is simpler than you think! This section provides useful links and advice on organic gardening - from creating an organic garden to maintaining it.
"To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves." - Mahatma Gandhi
Sitting Spiritually - creating unique, highest quality 'green' garden swing seats through innovative design and attention to detail. www.sittingspiritually.co.uk/
Fair trade hammocks, fair prices and free express delivery. Stop: It's Hammock Time brings you a wide range of traditionally made Brazilian hammocks. Their range of 100% cotton hammocks includes single hammocks, double hammocks, kids hammocks and hanging chairs. They also offer a wide range of hammock stands and accessories for fixing. www.stop-itshammocktime.co.uk
Bucket of Worms is a website giving information on composting with worms, from building your own wormery to worm and wormery care. They sell composting worms online along with products to help you care for your worms/wormeries. Bucket of Worms also sell the easy to use and successful Worm Works Wormery. www.bucketofworms.co.uk
Grow with ‘Nature’s Natural Cycle’ - waste free. All of their gardening products, which have been sustainably and mainly organically grown, will be put to use, then returned to the soil to further enhance it. They just borrow and return, nothing is wasted, but something is gained. Even their packaging is in re-usable jute bags, which, after re-use, will compost easily. Nature wastes nothing, and it's a pity we did not learn from the old girl earlier! www.thenaturalgardener.co.uk/
www.healthylifeessex.co.uk is a web site encouraging people to take responsibility for their own health and wellbeing, that of the community and the planet for now and for future generations. This is a site providing a lot of information covering a range of topics including gardening, complementary and alternative therapies, health issues, countryside and wildlife, spirituality, sustainability, and much more. Sign up for their newsletter to keep you informed, place a comment on their blog, or even add your details to one of their directories (keep looking - more will be added!)
Growers of a wide selection of organic fruit trees - Apples, Plums, Pears, Cherries, Quinces, etc.Soil Association certified. Delivered to you bare rooted when dormant between November and March - the best time to plant trees. Collection also welcome. Can be ordered any time of the year through Walcot Nursery’s website www.walcotnursery.co.uk, which also provides much advice on choosing and growing fruit trees. Detailed paper catalogue available - phone 01905 841587. Helpful, friendly advice always given.
Garden Boutique is a chic collection of garden design accessories, tools and gifts handpicked by leading Garden Designer Alice Bowe. Their eco-friendly range of garden products includes Rain Chains, Water Butts, Composters, Bokashi Bins, recycled sundials, candles, votives and solar lighting. With tips and tricks of the gardening trade and green garden ideas in every newsletter, Garden Boutique will help to make your garden a more beautiful and sustainable haven. www.gardenboutique.co.uk
The wall mounted boot rack - a space saving way to store wellies, boots, hiking boots, all sorts of boots or shoes. www.wellyracks.com
The GREEN PEST CONTROL Co believe that most pests can be controlled without the use of toxic chemicals and poisons. They advocate non chemical; this does not mean they don’t kill pests, BUT they believe this can be done in a way that is humane to the target species and not distressing to the person carrying out the treatment. The company is run, as it all ways has been by Owen, who can be contacted at owen.w@btinternet.com
Eco friendly, cottage garden plants, grown in peat free compost in a hairy coir pot.The pots are made from coconut husks combined with organically grown latex and are planted straight into the ground where they biodegrade naturally.This innovative, CO2 busting product has been ethically sourced and really doesn't cost the earth. www.hairypotplants.co.uk/
