Help Combat Climate Change Through Your Garden

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7 Ways Every Gardener Can Combat Climate Change

7 Ways Every Gardener Can Combat Climate Change We talked to some of our in-house experts to bring you a series of tips and actions you can take in your own garden, whatever its size, to help combat climate change.

First up: Grow Plants: Especially Natives

The most basic way to prevent greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere (and warming up the climate) is by growing plants. As gardeners, it’s what we do! While cars, planes and factories burn fossil fuels for energy, releasing carbon dioxide, plants actually absorb carbon dioxide in their photosynthesis process, turning it into sugars and locking it out of the atmosphere for years. They store it in their woody stems and roots and eventually, it will turn to decayed plant matter in the soil.

Illustrations of Trees, Shrubs, and Perennials

Trees are the most efficient of plants when it comes to draining carbon dioxide from the air, with long-lived shrubs coming in second in their ability to sequester carbon. Long-lived woody perennials, like peonies, and ornamental grasses like pheasant’s tail (with extensive root systems) are also good options. But you can think of every plant— no matter the size — as a tiny carbon sink.

Image showing Non-native plants: Spirea, Daylilies, and Perennial Fountain Grass, showing their shallow roots. Next an image of Native Plants Buffalo Grass, Prairie Dropseed, Black-eyed Susan, and Common Ninebark with their deep root systems.

All that said, you should aim to focus your efforts on growing native plants, advises Cynthia Faith, a certified horticulturist at our Hadley, MA garden center. “Invasive plants can dominate really fast and are very hard to control, leading us to use chemical means or pull them up and expose the soil, releasing carbon,” Faith says. You won’t have this problem with native plants though, she notes, plus native plants increase biodiversity. More good news? Your local garden center sells only natives (state regulations prevent local selling of invasives) or you can search for plants native to your area online.

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