Sustainable gardening for Florida

About this book

Florida’s warm climate and alternating wet and dry seasons provide both challenges and opportunities for home gardeners and property managers. Unfortunately, when local conditions are not taken into account, gardening can have a negative ecological impact. In Sustainable Gardening for Florida, Ginny Stibolt presents easy, money-saving projects that help to reduce Floridians’ collective ecological footprint. Stibolt draws upon a lifetime of experience and her academic training to give practical, hands-on tips for anyone interested in starting or expanding a garden. She teaches you how to design an ecologically friendly garden, enrich your soil with compost, and grow a more sustainable lawn. Other topics include maintaining a garden using native plants and natural methods, pest management, and even irrigation ideas to drought-proof your landscape. This wide range of techniques features a combination of eco-friendly landscape design and organic practices. Stibolt offers fresh ideas and new ways of approaching common environmental subjects for both individuals and communities. This is a guidebook to making a positive environmental impact on the state, one property at a time. Accessible to beginning gardeners, there’s enough information here to keep experts busy as well.