Sustainable gardening is also cheaper because it includes using recycled products, minimizes the consumption of natural resources, and involves less maintenance. Anyone with a garden, no matter how small, can make their space a sustainable garden teeming with life. So if you want to create some creative ideas for garden designs, try out some simple ways of creating an eco-friendly garden that's sustainable and a haven for wildlife.

1. Plant Successional Blooms

Good garden planning is a small part of trying to ensure that there are successful blooms throughout the year. A mix of plants flowering at different times will keep a steady stream of crucial pollinators arriving at your garden, working their helpful magic throughout the seasons. 

One of the most economical ways to continue flowering in your beds is to collect seeds, increasing flowers from your stock. In the vegetable and herb gardens, there are beautiful flowers in bloom throughout the months of the year that attract and help to entice in pollinators, as well as beneficial insects to keep pests away from crops. You can explore annuals and perennials too for your garden.

2. Use Companion Planting

Companion planting is used in placing tagetes about our tomatoes to protect these plants from the whitefly. Another example of companion planting is the use of garlic and onions between the carrots, the smell of carrot masks, and supposedly deters the carrot root fly. This adds one more layer to the potential benefits that you could get from planting different flowers and crops together, so research these before including them in your plans when selecting from your vegetable garden ideas. This will not only reduce the unnatural pest control measures used against certain crops but also tend to make the vegetable and fruit crops healthier and more productive. Try planting Low-Maintenance Outdoor Plants in the garden.

3. Cover Crops With Protective Nets

To protect some of your treasured crops from caterpillars and other leaf-munching wildlife, try covering them with nets. Instead of spraying brassicas, such as Brussels sprouts and cabbages, use a fine net to stop the butterflies from laying their eggs on them. Take special care of your plants during the heatwave.

4. Remain Peat Free

They support good ecosystems for plants and animals and absorb water, thus reducing the possibility of flooding. When we take peat for our gardens, we release carbon, not to mention damaging the habitats. Keeping peat in bogs, not bags is an important act of fighting climate change. Billions of acres of peat on our planet hold more carbon than all the world's forests combined.

5. Feed The Birds

Putting out some food is a great way to encourage more birds into your garden. Dangling a bird feeder from a tree or scattering bird seed over the lawn will soon fill your eco-friendly garden with the sounds of birds but why not go one step further and make your bird feeder? Many online resources with ways to make a bird feeder at home using recycled materials. An example would be an old plastic bottle, a glass jar lying around in the attic, or some scrap wood. And if you're making a bird feeder, you can get a bit carried away in the kitchen by baking some tasty bird treats to hang up in the garden.

6. Grow Your Veggies

A small space can be required for a small vegetable garden, but all that is required is a small area in a sunny spot. Some edible plants are almost as pretty as ornamentals, and growing them can be incredibly fulfilling. Easy crops that should thrive in a container are vegetables such as kale and pak choi, while on the ground, squashes, courgettes, perpetual spinach, chard, and runner beans should do well. 

You can take it one step further to lower your food miles and increase your green credentials for your garden by buying your seeds from companies that have those seeds sourced from crops that are grown organically. Prune your plants properly so they grow into healthy happy plants.

7. Filter Pollution With Plants And Trees

Some plants guard us against the toxic effects of small particulate pollution generated through vehicle exhausts, which increases the chances of contracting diseases like cancer. Research conducted by the Royal Horticultural Society indicates that shrubs with hairy, scaly, waxy, or rough leaves trap these pollutants and are good plant species for a garden adjacent to a busy road. An evergreen shrub cotoneaster proved to be well effective, although yew, holly, hornbeam, and hawthorn also had good merit. You can buy some best backyard trees that are easy to maintain from Eureka Farms for an eco-friendly garden.

8. Plant Boundaries In Hedges

This hedge is good for the environment by absorbing pollution but also provides shelter and food for wildlife. There are many beautiful yews that you could plant along one boundary to create a head height barrier, with pleached hornbeams above that. Mixed fast-growing hedges are often used in rural gardens, while more dense, evergreen hedging is a better fit for the urban garden.

9. Future-proof Your Planting

Getting the basics right when planning your garden will help you prepare for extreme weather events. Ensure that your selected plants can tolerate the soil present in your garden and also enhance drainage and soil structure by using grit and mulch. How you water your plant when planting can make an enormous difference to how strong your plants are. Dig deeply and add organic matter. There are numerous benefits of shade trees so you can plant them as well.

10. Look At What Grows Locally

When making your decisions about plants for your garden, consider what will naturally grow and thrive locally and what shade or sun-loving plants or shrubs are suitable for your shade or full sun. That's a simple way of checking what will thrive in your garden. You can look at the locale as well as the immediate surroundings. If, say, birch does well in the area and you know that is acidic soil, or if that's more alkaline, look to plants that thrive well in that type of soil. The most important thing, actually isn't to fight the elements. Look for fruits that grow easily or vegetables that grow commonly.

How to Buy Plants From Eureka Farms?

You are now licensed for a full-scale nursery with an extensive inventory of landscaping trees, fruit trees, palm trees, and the largest houseplant collection. If you want to enhance your curb appeal or turn your porch into a class act, Eureka Farms can guide you on how to do it all, from topiary trees and hedges to everything in between. You can rest assured that we will handle the shipment with the utmost care across the country so that when your plants reach you, they will be as fresh as new. These indoor plants require less upkeep, improve home air cleanliness, brighten moods, and provide essential touches of the natural world to the work-from-home office. Happy Planting!