Making Your Garden "Green" - Part 1

Did you know that gardeners are responsible for producing an estimated 320 million pounds of plastic waste every year? How is this possible? Every time you buy an established plant in a plastic pot, every time you purchase soil packaged in a plastic bag, you've got plastic waste. How can you help reduce the waste?

Be aware of packaging. Many nurseries and garden departments now sell flowers, vegetables and herbs in plantable biodegradable flower pots. Not to be found at your favorite gardening store? Reuse those plastic pots over and over again, for each year's seedlings or to store small gardening materials like stakes. Some garden supply outlets will also let you bring your plastic pots back in so they can reuse them.