UK, home gardener here, growing tomatoes, beans, plums, apples and pears in a garden that also includes mature trees (oak and beech). I think my gardening is en

UK, home gardener here, growing tomatoes, beans, plums, apples and pears in a garden that also includes mature trees (oak and beech). I think my gardening is environment-positive, personally. 1) I don’t use pesticides. I don’t grow veg such as cauliflower that are prone to insect attack. The only plastic pots are those used by the garden centre when they sell plants. Every few years I use moss-killer on the lawn, but I manually weed my borders and growing areas rather than spray herbicide. 2) I have never use peat, and neither do my gardening neighbours. 3) My garden gets its water from the rain. If it doesn’t rain, my grass scorches and I reseed. I do water my tomatoes at the height of the summer. I mix grass cuttings with the autumn leaf fall to create seed-free mulch that helps moisture retention. My garden contains numerous plants that are attractive to pollinators, and I have a large population of birds that forage in it (I counted 14 distinct species in the last RSPB bird count exercise). There are bats in the summer and sometimes hedgehogs and stag beetles. I have a small number of wood piles that I leave undisturbed for whatever chooses to live in them.