Ideas for a greener garden

(01/04/2008)

Spring is just arriving and Ecotopia are making suggestions for a greener garden:

The Paper Potter (£7.99) makes biodegradable seedling pots from old newspapers. Its kind to your plants - allowing minimal disturbance to their little roots - and kind to your purse as it saves buying expensive sowing and seedling pots.

The Butterfly Habitat (£19.95) provides our flighty friends with their own little house for roosting, hibernating or laying eggs. This attractive Habitat combines a safe and interactive habitat with a central feed station. The central feed sponge can be charged with a sugar/water solution to encourage and help butterflies or it can be soaked with Wildlife World Butterfly Attractant to encourage colourful butterflies (with the exception of the Cabbage White) to the feed station/habitat. Butterflies will use the house for roosting.

As we head into the warmer months this is the perfect time to take advantage of the abundance of sunlight hours and get into those gardens, yards, patios and balconies for a bit of a spring clean and spruce up. For a great paving slab and brick work cleaner try Ecover Washing Up Liquid at £1.75 a litre. Used by many reclamation yards to restore bricks, it is a great way of refreshing and cleaning areas after winter.

Composting is addictive – once you start, you cannot stop! If new to Composting try Can-O-Worms with Extra Value Pack at £101.00. This is our recommended start-up system and best seller. It includes the Can-O-Worms housing and a generous supply of composting worms plus a selection of extras to help make your composting go smoothly. It's all you need to start successful composting. Our worms are despatched in special packaging to ensure they reach you in top condition but they will need to be transferred into bedding in the kit within 2 to 3 days. So, if the kit is being sent as a gift or will not be set-up on arrival please order it with a voucher, this can then be redeemed when the kit is ready for its worms.

Introducing the little ones to gardening? Try the fun Grow Your Own Sunflower kit at £2.50. Inside the ingenious box are plant seeds, a compost pellet and a terracotta pot - everything required to get growing.

Still pottering in your shed as dusk arrives, try our fab new solar power light at £79.99. This solar light is quick and easy to install - simple plug and play. The solar shed light is an ideal lighting solution for not only sheds but green houses, garages, playhouses, tents, outhouses, boats etc. Its small and compact design makes it perfect for travel.

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