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Worm humus

The best plant fertilizer ever – 100% natural

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Making worm humus yourself is easy to do at home. Turn organic waste into the world’s best plant fertilizer quickly and easily. Your plants will thank you with radiant health and fragrant flowers.

With your own worm composter, you are independent and environmentally conscious and no longer need to spend money on expensive plant fertilizers. You can also save on the cost of organic waste disposal.
Your worm farm is a composter for kitchen and vegetable waste. With the diligent help of compost worms, you can turn waste in your home into plant soil. It’s not disgusting, but smells like a forest.

The worm farm puts an end to the sour smell of rotten pears and fruit flies on moldy strawberries. After a few weeks, the waste is transformed into high-quality soil. Plant your own vegetables and the cycle is complete.

"Green is not everything, but without green everything is nothing."

Hans-Hermann Bentrup

11 tips for more sustainable gardening

The best tips for greener gardening

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A sustainable garden paradise is not only a pleasure for you, but is also important for stopping the extinction of species and promoting biodiversity.

Not only do you provide a habitat for various insect species, bees, birds and other animals, but you also break the trend towards monotonous, gray and lifeless rock gardens. Unfortunately, if pesticides are used extensively, nature is left behind.

01

Save water in your garden

  • To save water for watering your plants, you should definitely collect the free rainwater in your ecologically friendly garden.
  • An underground collection tank (cistern) is particularly suitable for larger gardens. However, even a rain barrel helps to water your garden sustainably.
  • If possible, water your plants in the morning, as this is a better choice in terms of water efficiency than in the evening. If the water is applied to the soil at night, it has the whole night to flow through the soil. This means it is no longer available to the plants when they really need it in the heat.

02

Choose drought-tolerant plants

  • To reduce your water consumption in your garden, it makes sense to only choose plants that do not require large amounts of water.
  • Also, mulch your beds and plant local ground cover plants to reduce moisture evaporation and cool the soil.
  • Plant up thirsty sites such as raised beds, hanging baskets and containers in windy or sunny spots with low-water-need plants such as thyme, sedum, lavender or pelargoniums

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Mow your lawn less

  • Biodynamics is the world’s oldest system of organic growing. An inspirational global movement that promotes a uniquely holistic approach to organic agriculture, gardening, food and health.
  • Today, biodynamic farming is one of the most sustainable and regenerative forms of agriculture in the world.

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Always check that the compost is peat-free or even better make your own compost

  • Intact peatlands are not only an important place for biodiversity, but if they remain intact, the peat present there absorbs and stores carbon and thus plays an important role in combating climate change.

05

Mulch your beds

  • The mulch helps the soil to retain moisture in summer. This is best applied in mid to late spring.
  • You can make a good biodegradable mulch from homemade compost (your own organic kitchen waste), wood shavings, leaves, shredded last year’s plants and well-rotted manure.
  • Leave the root systems of the dead plants intact. When these decompose and break down, they create important channels for water to seep into the soil.

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Don’t buy black plastic plant pots and plastic in general

  • The widely used black plastic plant pots can’t be recycled at all because the pigment in them can’t be detected by the sorting equipment at most recycling plants.
  • Many garden suppliers stock biodegradable grass, wood, paper and even bamboo pulp pots and seed trays. They are a great alternative to plastic pots if you’re growing plants from seed.
  • Anyway avoid new plastic items and reuse worn-out materials or objects. However, this does not mean that you have to throw away all intact plastic or synthetic items from the garden or balcony immediately. In the sense of sustainability, only do this when they are no longer usable.

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Reuse plastic plant pots

  • It is not uncommon for piles of plastic pots or boxes to pile up in the garden shed. They have been used once and are no longer needed or are broken. But if you can, give them a second life. Just rinse them out with warm water and detergent before using again to kill off any diseases.
  • In any case, pots made of clay or wicker are more environmentally friendly.
  • Some nurseries also offer so-called “bring-back deposit boxes” when buying plants. These containers can be returned after transportation home.

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    Plant wildlife-friendly plants

    • Plant insect-friendly, trees and local plants, shrubs to make your garden a paradise for insects. This also includes a water source, for which you fill a saucer with sand and then pebbles. Then keep the tray regularly moist to allow insects to drink.
    • For undisturbed and safe hibernation, insects need a place to retreat to. You can provide this in a place sheltered from the wind and rain with a pile of wood or an insect hotel. An old dry stone wall or bricks or sandstone with holes are also perfect as insect shelters.
    • To create breeding opportunities for insects, also build small sandy areas.

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    Collect and swap seeds

    • Collect the seeds of vegetable plants or wild flowers and use them again in the following years. This not only saves natural resources but also your money. You can also use food that has already germinated, such as peas, garlic or potatoes, as seeds.
    •  After the previous year is over, you can always go back to the seeds from the previous year in subsequent years, conserving natural resources and saving money. So collect the seeds of vegetable plants or wild flowers with foresight. You can also use stored food from the pantry (e.g. potatoes, peas and garlic) as free seeds.

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    Do without motors and prefer manual labor

    • Try to avoid using motors for gardening tools as much as possible and rely on environmentally friendly manual work instead.
    • You only need a few gardening tools for your sustainable garden. A wheelbarrow, spade, hand shovel, watering can, pocket knife, scythe and secateurs will help you.

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    Prefer garden furniture made from local woods

    • To protect the rainforests, you should choose garden furniture from local, sustainable forestry for your patio. This should be certified with the FSC, PEFC or Naturland seal.

      Above all, avoid garden tables or chairs made from teak, bangkirai and mahogany. Instead, buy garden furniture made from Douglas fir, oak, robinia (“false acacia”), sweet chestnut or larch.

    Pest control through insects

    Do not only harm the environment

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    Pest control through insects

    • With hedges, flower strips and shrub islands, you can create habitats in which beneficial insects can colonize. These help you to massively reduce pest infestations.
    • In principle, you can defend your garden against insect pests without the use of poisons. In addition to creating habitats for beneficial insects, you can also apply strengthening plant manure or remove harmful insects mechanically.
    • Certain plant combinations can also naturally deter pests or attract beneficial insects. Find out about companion planting strategies and take advantage of nature’s biodiversity.
      For every insect pest, there is also an antagonist. Diverse gardens attract beneficial insects such as ladybugs, lacewings, parasitic wasps and wild bees, which destroy aphids etc. and pollinate food plants.

    Weeds

    • Broad crop rotations and mixed crops suppress weeds. In principle, weeding should be carried out as little as possible but as much as necessary, and only if weeds are hindering plant growth or making cultivation more difficult.
    • In any case, mechanical soil cultivation replaces the use of deadly glyphosate and similar products. Radical weed control involves removing organic material and the protective cover from the soil. It is better to use a mulch cover between the crops to reduce the growth of weeds.
    • In principle, weeds also protect the soil from drying out and can be used as mulch or compost material as long as the seeds have not yet formed. Some weeds can be controlled very easily by cutting off the flowers before they start to flower.

     

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