Sustainable Garden
Projects, insights and advice for the eco-conscious gardener
by Marian Boswall
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Pub Date May 03 2022 | Archive Date Apr 26 2022
Quarto Publishing Group – White Lion | Frances Lincoln
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Description
Sustainable gardener Marian Boswall walks us through the process of creating and maintaining a sustainable outdoor space, offering tips, guidance and step-by-step projects designed to help you lead a more low-impact lifestyle. Whether it’s by harnessing natural energy, converting to peat-free compost, reducing your consumption of plastic, saving seeds or creating garden areas from reclaimed materials, there are numerous ways – both big and small – to make a difference.
Entries cover every aspect of the garden, from how to create a space and draw up a plan for your sustainable garden from scratch, to advice on boundaries and fences, and guidance on how to ethically source materials to make sure your garden is as environmentally friendly as it is beautiful. This book also contains several projects with easy-to-follow instructions that you can replicate at home, such as creating a frame for succulents to grow in out of recycled materials.
Projects include:
- Plant an edible hedge - This berry-laden boundary brings joy into your garden and offers a great way to connect to and notice the seasons for both children and adults,
- Make a lawn spiral - This innovative approach to lawns will reduce mowing time by half (thereby saving energy) and will create a beautiful, textured swirl of flowering grass which is good for pollinators,
- Make your own frame for succulents - Using recycled and found materials, create your own vertical planter for a host of succulents, perfect for balconies or other small spaces,
- Saving your seeds - Collecting seeds from your garden is the perfect way to start planning ahead for your garden next year, all while reducing waste.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780711267886 |
| PRICE | $26.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 160 |
Featured Reviews
Johanna S, Reviewer
Wow, loved this. I recently bought an acre of land and am still looking for ideas to develop it. This book was perfect and full of great ideas mostly made from recycled products. I love some of the ideas in this book and I can’t wait to try it. If your into sustainability then this is a great read for the gardener. So many things can be repurposed to reuse and this woman makes it look simple. From furniture, mowing techniques and composting this is a great helpful guide. Five stars for some great ideas. I’d recommend to any gardener!
Media/Journalist 16509
This is a great resource, though I was surprised that I didn't find it more useful for myself personally. I consider myself a hard core sustainable gardener, but this is more along the lines of finding the most sustainable products, sourcing plants from good companies, etc. I tend to use recycled materials, source my plants from cuttings and divisions and friends more than nurseries, and concentrate more on making my garden sustainable in terms of being a healthy ecosystem for the nature around me than the materials building and making it. For what it is, though, it's great, and it's packed with color photos and a ton of information.
I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.
Mik Y, Educator
Sustainable Garden by Marian Boswall is a gorgeous joyfully presented gardening book. It has loads of gorgeous photos of her garden in the UK and is loaded with a lot of garden projects.
I got really excited when I saw the cover and the topic, Sustainable Garden.But as a sustainable gardener myself it wasn't what I thought it would be as far as sustainability. Yes, it does talk about a lot of repurposing and some beautiful ideas in doing so such as making your own besom broom, using a wooden box and make it a birdhouse(that was fantastic) and an herb spiral, etc. but as far as sustainability yes it talks a bit about that but when she had a gas push mower instead of a manual mower and then talked about not using other grasses such as buffalo grass, etc. the book fell short for me on a book about sustainability and more about repurposing. Marian Boswall does talk about using a soil blocker took which I use and appreciated she mentioned because that one tool can reduce a lot of plastic use in the garden while seed starting.
Again beautiful, a lovely gardening book.with good information and projects but it only scratches the surface on sustainability..
I'd like to thank NetGalley and the publisher Frances Lincoln for the opportunity to read and review 'Sustainable Garden' by Marian Boswall.
Kate Z, Reviewer
This is a fun book! I really enjoyed the ideas, projects, and abundant use of photographs throughout. The emphasis on good soil composition and compost, including a project making a compost bin, especially appealed to me. The projects that involve taking cuttings and saving seeds would also likely be helpful for most readers. I love that the projects had step by step directions and photos. Some of the projects were a bit more whimsical too. The book is not completely comprehensive, but would be a nice start for many gardeners and the aesthetic of it may help inspire some new beautiful gardens.
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