Do your gardening however DON’T dig says B&Q because the chain warns it’s dangerous for the atmosphere
Do your gardening however DON’T dig says B&Q because the chain warns it’s dangerous for the atmosphere and pointless onerous work
- B&Q stated technique of digging to arrange flower beds ought to be a factor of the previous
Digging your backyard is dangerous for the atmosphere and pointless onerous work, in response to B&Q.
In what could appear shocking recommendation for a series which sells a variety of backyard spades, it says the tactic ought to turn into a factor of the previous.
Tim Clapp, head of product vary at Kingfisher, the mother or father firm of B&Q and Screwfix, stated when he discovered horticulture, back-breaking ‘double digging’ was taught as the way in which to arrange flower and vegetable beds.
As a substitute of doing this to aerate soil and suppress weeds, ‘no-dig’ gardening merely entails spreading compost on the floor a few times a 12 months and letting worms, micro organism and soil fungi combine it in with the earth.
The motion has been impressed by British gardener Charles Dowding, who has written books because the Nineteen Eighties urging gardeners to cease digging and as a substitute let the soil regenerate naturally.
Digging your backyard is dangerous for the atmosphere and pointless onerous work, in response to B&Q. In what could appear shocking recommendation for a series which sells a variety of backyard spades, it says the tactic ought to turn into a factor of the previous (file picture)
B&Q, which has greater than 300 shops throughout Britain and Eire, stated it needed to ‘deliver no-dig gardening to the lots’.
Talking at an occasion on the chain’s check nursery in Fareham, Hampshire, Mr Clapp stated: ‘[Digging] is the previous means of doing issues. What as we speak we’re right here to say truly, that’s fairly onerous work.
‘And there’s, we imagine, an alternate technique to doing that and for that we’ve got to thank of Charles Dowding and his strategies.’
Digging damages micro organism and fungi within the soil, Mr Clapp stated, in addition to inflicting carbon buried within the soil to type the greenhouse fuel carbon dioxide when uncovered to air.
‘Carbon is just like the glue throughout the soil. And the upper the carbon is, the higher it’s. However in fact by digging it, we’re exposing that carbon to oxygen inside there, and that turns into CO2.’
Mr Clapp added: ‘With the no-dig system, you possibly can truly begin to put the carbon again into the soil and it is a very nice factor that we will do.’
