I don’t have any space for a garden at our apartment, but I’m interested in gardening and found these ecological “rubbish garden” tips fascinating. A few of them are kind of obvious, but perhaps forgotten from elementary school days, like “egg boxes make good seed trays,” but here are a few of my favorites that are more involved and insightful:

• Fill hanging baskets with old wool in spring and birds will come and take it for nesting material.
• Pile leaves up in a quiet corner and a hedgehog may choose it as a home for the winter.
• Plastic bottles cut in half make ideal mini greenhouses for seedlings.
• Pile some logs up in a shady corner and minibeasts will make their home there.
• Make bird shapes from paper and put them on windows so that the birds don’t crash into them.
• Cut off old sunflower heads and hang them up. Birds eat the seeds and bugs hibernate in them.