Below are top tips of organic gardening and being environmentally friendly.

- Organically manage the whole garden, not just the fruit and vegetables.
- Try to encourage natural creatures to control pests. This is wildlife friendly.
- Be able to distinguish pests from predators
- Play to your garden's strengths, capitalising on its particular characteristics.
- Have soil care as a priority. - Get compost and leaf mould to feed the soil. - Reuse and recycle, to cut down the use of finite resources and reduce disposal problems.
- Use organically grown seeds as far as possible. - When choosing materials for use with your gardening practise, be sure to consider the environmental implications.
- Collect rain water, and reduce the need for watering by improving the soil and growing appropriate plants.
- Make local sources your first choice.
- Don't use slug pellets.
- Control weeds without herbicides.
- Avoid the use of preservative treated wood.
- Never use genetically modified varieties.