So far I have been burying my head in the sand as far as Christmas is concerned, but now that it’s December I have to accept that it is now a legitimate topic and people will be talking about it until it happens :)

The nice people at the Eden Project sent me a couple of gifts from their catalogue to have a look at. The first one is this shiny watering can:

Compostable watering can

Available in four different colours, this is apparently a compostable watering can, which is interesting. I wonder how they make it so that it composts, but doesn’t biodegrade when you fill it with water and leave it outside. It’s very clever, and it’s a good watering can – I have used it indoors to water my houseplants on the windowsills and the long spout makes it nice and easy. At £5 for a sustainable gift, I reckon it’s a winner.

Seedbomb kit

I talked a little bit about seed bombs, one of the tools of guerrilla gardening trade, in The Peat-Free Diet – but I haven’t yet made them. Next year I can give it a go with this handy seed bomb making kit: it contains clay, compost, seeds and plant food. All I need to do is add water, shape the bombs and throw! As the label points out, I can add my own (local, perhaps) seeds to the mix if I want. I can just imagine wandering around with a pocket of biodiversity, waiting for a degraded landscape to enrich with wildflowers. The seed bomb kit is also £5.

While I was finding the links for this post in the Eden Project Shop, I got distracted and ordered the Christmas presents for my young nieces. I do like shopping at the Eden Project (preferably in person, but that will have to wait until next year), because they take the strain out of sustainability and you can choose what you want without wondering what the environmental/ social cost of it all is. They have a wide range of products, and as they are a charity the money they raise gets ploughed back into their environmental and educational work.