Combat Climate Change Through Gardening!

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Combat Climate Change by Ditching Synthetic Fertilizers

Our in-house gardening experts bring you this series of tips and actions you can take in your own garden, whatever its size, to help combat climate change.

This time, it's all about choosing natural and organic fertilizers over synthetic ones

Synthetic fertilizers (made by chemically processed raw materials) release greenhouse gases during their manufacture. Even worse, once they're in the soil, synthetic fertilizers produce nitrous oxide - 300 times more potent (read: they warm the atmosphere that much faster) than carbon dioxide!

Instead, go for organic fertilizers. These are made from naturally occuring mineral deposits and organic material, such as bone or plant meal or composted manure.

Image of Gardener's organic fertilizers surrounded by tomatoes, flowers and other vegetables

"I've heard it said that giving synthetic fertilizers to your plants is like feeding your children just vitamins to survive," says Cynthia Faith, a certified horticulturalist at our Hadley, MA garden center. "You're getting them the good things they need... but not everything they need to grow and flourish." Giving your plants organic fertilizers, on the other hand, is like feeding your children a well-rounded diet of whole food. Bonus: since they're naturally derived, organic, fertilizers add organic material to your soil, improving it over time.

Questions? Start here:

Fertilizer basics >

Trees are the most efficient of plants when it comes to draining carbon dioxide from the air, with long-lived shrubs coming in second in their ability to sequester carbon. Long-lived woody perennials, like peonies, and ornamental grasses like pheasant’s tail (with extensive root systems) are also good options. But you can think of every plant— no matter the size — as a tiny carbon sink.

Read more on how to combat climate change in your garden here:

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Trees are the most efficient of plants when it comes to draining carbon dioxide from the air, with long-lived shrubs coming in second in their ability to sequester carbon. Long-lived woody perennials, like peonies, and ornamental grasses like pheasant’s tail (with extensive root systems) are also good options. But you can think of every plant— no matter the size — as a tiny carbon sink.

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