You may think that a metre of outdoor space might not be of significance, but it is possible to grow edibles, help biodiversity and encourage wildlife into your space. With this in mind, the BBC Gardeners’ World ‘Make A Metre Matter’ campaign is encouraging gardeners across the UK to transform one square metre of outside space for the good of the planet. It’s supported by the TV series, Gardeners’ World magazine, events and digital platforms.
Nick Bailey, designer of this year’s BBC Gardeners’ World Live headline show garden, The Plant-Based Garden, which is plastic and concrete-free and features eco-friendly highlights, hopes it will give visitors ‘Make A Metre Matter’ ideas to take home. “This campaign has the potential to make a huge difference. We are not deluding ourselves that everybody’s going to do this, but there are 20 million households in this country.
“If only 100 of them made a difference, that’s still 200,000 square metres which can make a huge difference in terms of species diversity, the eco-web and supporting the wider environment,” Bailey says. He will be chatting about the campaign each day at the show and offering tips on what you can do with that metre of unused outdoor space. Work out your space “Get your head around what a square metre is.
For a lot of people that’s two-and-a-half feet by two-and-a-half feet or two typical flatscreen TVs lying next to each other. “That square metre can be productive in all sorts of dif.