Going Green: Make the most of your green space and enjoy it

Enjoying time out in the garden. Photo: Adobe

With the clocks changing shortly, now’s the time to start thinking about your garden or outside space or even your window sill.

While time is still on your side there are lots of things you can do whether you have a garden, a patio, a balcony or a window box to get your green fingers going and encourage nature into your space so you can enjoy it.

Firstly, have a think about planting. It can be flowers, plants or a vegetable patch and if it’s the latter, you don’t necessarily have to buy seeds. Anything you eat with seeds like butternut squash or courgettes you can remove the seeds, dry them out and then plant them yourself. When your potatoes chit – when they start to grow little white ‘roots’ or eyes – you can chop them and put each bit with an eye into the ground to grow your own spuds.