Sustainable handbook for the lazy gardener - Loethe Olthuis

Advice and practical tips for a sustainable garden.

Climate change, nitrogen, pesticides, pollution... sometimes we seem powerless in the face of all environmental problems. And where can we still enjoy nature? Simple: in your own garden, or even on your balcony. Because by creating your own nature garden, large or small, you instantly make your own living environment more sustainable, cleaner, more beautiful and greener! Even if you have no experience with gardening.

In the Sustainable Handbook for the Lazy Gardener Loethe Olthuis, journalist and passionate garden enthusiast, explains in ten simple steps how to create your own piece of blooming, lush nature. For example, she tells you where you can find free plants. How to make your garden climate-proof. Which flowers attract the most butterflies and bees and how color can be seen all year round. Why you should be a lazy gardener, so that hedgehogs, birds, insects and other animals feel at home. And she shows how you can create your own dining garden or tasty balcony with fruit and vegetables: herbs in pots are a great start.

With readable pleasure and an eye for people with busy agendas (she has those herself), Loethe describes her practical nature garden step-by-step plan in such a way that you want to start right away! Get started and enjoy your own piece of nature at home.

• Which plants in which place?
• make friends with your weeds
• Also think about the birds
• Create a garden and plant herbs in containers
• Stop cleaning up
• Smash your tiles
• Attract bumblebees and bees with flower bulbs

Loethe Olthuis is an investigative journalist. She has been writing about nutrition and sustainability for more than 25 years; she has about ten books to her name. Her articles mainly appear in de Volkskrant, but also in, for example Radar+, One World and ELLE Food . She also gives lectures on healthy food, gardening and sustainability. Loethe has a large garden with a vegetable garden, so she knows the seasons like the back of her hand and always eats deliciously. And yes: she is a lazy gardener. Because that gives the best result.