Green gardening guide - part two

In the UK, we each spend an average £200 each year on our gardens.

That's a whole lotta cash that could be used to make our green spaces green in the eco-friendly sense - by growing plants to organic standards, using compost instead of chemical fertiliser and deploying natural pest controls instead of going crazy with pesticides.

To learn the how, we took a trip to Garden Organic Ryton to meet environmentalist, writer, CAT staffer and organic gardener, Allan Shepherd.
This is part one of a two part series. For part one, goto youtube.com/newconsumer

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