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Don’t use chemicals in your gardening – Gardening Organic have lots of helpful information.
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Enjoy a garden that is a bit messy! Leave some wilder places for wild life – good advice available from Wildlife Gardening or Space for Nature.
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Install a bat box. The internet has many useful sites to look at: just google ‘bat box’.
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Put up nesting boxes for the birds.
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Plant things that will attract butterflies and bees, such as buddleia, nettles (in a container in the ground to stop them spreading) and lavender.
Repeating Challenge
Ensure a regular supply of fresh water and food for birds.
Repeating Challenge
Don’t de-head your flowers to quickly. Leave the seeds on for the birds to eat.
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Grow some sunflowers and leave the heads on to provide seeds for the birds.
The Big Ask
Build a pond (being careful with small children, of course). Ensure it has sloping sides so amphibians can get in and out easily, and birds and small animals can drink from it without the danger of falling in.
Repeating Challenge
Don’t use garden products that contain peat. Peat bogs sustain a huge variety of living things.
The Big Ask
Plant a hedge from native plants such as hawthorn, which will provide both food and shelter.
Think on This
Spike’s World has lots of good ideas for wildlife friendly gardening, as does the Homes for Wildlife section on the RSPB website.