Resources
The Sustainable Gardening in Frankston Booklet
The Sustainable Gardening booklet has been created to enable you to conduct a sustainability audit of your garden. Different sustainability themes are addressed and in each section you simply tick a box if it is something you are doing in your garden. Add up each section and get a total score on the Sustainable Gardening score card at the back of this booklet. Make a note of what you have to do to score more ticks in both six months and 12 months. You can then start working towards making your garden more sustainable.
The booklet covers areas such as:
- Garden design
- Caring for your soil
- Compost - easy and fun
- Saving water in the garden
- Greywater
- Plant selection
- Frankston local plants
- Sustainable plant list
- Frankston garden escapees
- Chemicals
- Vegetable gardening
- Habitat gardening
Download a copy of the booklet Sustainable Gardening in Frankston.
The Healthy Sustainable Gardens program
Through The Healthy and Sustainable Gardens Program (HSGP), Metropolitan Waste Management Group (MWMG) with the support of Sustainability Victoria is assisting Councils and retail garden suppliers across Melbourne to provide the recycled compost and mulch products back to householders at a competitive price.
The program seeks to raise awareness of recycled organics and to promote the use of these products to the gardening public and Council procurement officers.
The program is pivotal to establishing and developing end-use markets for recycled mulch and compost. Development of these markets is essential to keeping green organics out of landfill. By encouraging and supporting residents to buy the products you will also be supporting them to close the loop and help the environment
For more information visit the Metropolitan Waste Management Group Web site.
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