As you may have noticed, we like to be sustainable and like to encourage our customers to do the same.  Our ‘Plant Hope’ theme signs provide many little ways to be more sustainable and feature throughout the garden center, helping you to make greener choices and pointing out the things we do at Perrywood to be more sustainable. We thought we’d share some of the sustainable choices our garden shop buyer has been making whilst ordering new products.

Weedkilling

We no longer sell any weedkiller containing Glyphosate, a high strength herbicide that is highly toxic to organisms as well as plants. In fact, our chemical weedkiller section is much smaller in general. Instead we encourage customers to use more natural methods such as old fashioned weeding by hand, mulching beds or filling them with plenty of ground cover to minimise space for weeds.

Burgon & Ball Wonder Weed Pull and Weed Slice – these handy tools are a more environmentally friendly way to get rid of weeds instead of using weedkillers.

Kent & Stowe Capability Trowel – has many uses, including digging out weeds.

Better still we love to suggest simply embracing weeds; many are beneficial to pollinators, for example dandelions amongst a lawn. As we say here in our car park “pardon the weeds, we’re feeding the bees!”

Pest Control

We are focusing much more on natural pest control options. We already stock many greener brands, look out for Lava Lite, Agralan, Nema Knights (weevil, gnat, ant and slug) and Grazers.

We replaced Bug Clear with the Plant Shield spray. It’s pesticide free and has 98% natural ingredients. It creates a protective shield to prevent the plant from getting infected. This saves the need for nasty chemicals to kill pests.

There are also products such as Agralan Enviromesh to protect your vegetables against insects without the need for pesticides.

Bigger pests

We no longer stock ‘Ultra Power’ rodent control, instead we have increased our range of friendlier forms of control such as live traps instead of poison or traps that kill.

Wildlife

A natural way to deter pests is to encourage wildlife to your garden.

For example, birds feed on insects like caterpillars, beetles, and aphids that can cause damage to your plants.

Why not add a bird bath, feeder, insect hotel, hedgehog house or plant wildflower seeds?

Fallen Fruits Ceramic Birdbath

Westland Natures Haven Easy Wildflowers

Feeding Organically

We have increased choices of organic feeds. These are kind to the environment and work well alongside peat-free composts, which require a frequent top up of nutrients.

Miracle-Gro Performance Organics Fruit & Veg Plant Food – made purely from plants, 100% natural feed

Tomorite – a good all-rounder for most vegetables as well as, of course, tomatoes.

Vitax Organic Rose Food – 100% organic

Lawn Care

We’ve introduced more organic lawn care products, which help to maintain a lawn without the use of harmful chemicals. This means it will be safer for your children and pets, as well as pollinators and garden birds.

Grass Gains – organic based lawn care.

Westland Lawn Triple Care – herbicide free – helps encourage growth and a stronger lawn so that you get fewer weeds and moss.

Miracle Gro Healthy Lawn and Compact Spreader

Grow your Own

As well supplying a really good range of herbs, fruits and vegetables, the majority of which are grown here at Perrywood, we’ve also increased our range of VegTrugs.

The VegTrug is the perfect space-saving way to grow your own food, allowing you to get growing in the smallest of spaces – even a small balcony.

The raised planters and trugs are brilliant for those with difficulty tending to ground-level plants. They’re the perfect height for wheelchair users and save bending or kneeling down. Try planting one up with our ‘Grown at Perrywood’ range of tasty vegetables and fragrant herbs for a tasty summer.

Read our ‘How to‘ guide for step by step instructions on using your new VegTrug.

Peat-free Compost

At Perrywood, we only sell peat-free compost. This is a simple step towards helping our customers to support sustainability when gardening.

If you need help with getting the best results, read our ‘How to‘ guide.

Westland Big Tom Tomato Planter – Enriched with nutrients to promote strong root growth and healthy plant development.

Melcourt Sylva Grow Seed – Perfect for seed sowing, encouraging germination and healthy root development.

Westland multi-purpose with added John Innes – Perfect for hanging baskets, containers, seeds and cuttings.

You can also shop our permanent Greener Gardening area in our Garden Shop specifically for environmentally friendly gardening products. We are working hard to make it easier for our customers to make a sustainable choice.