Green Renovating Your Yard
With spring coming up fast, I figured we’d skip the interior green audit this week, and look at some green yard renovations.
Obviously the best way to care for your yard and garden is organically; so we’ll look at some organic yard care tips this week. Along with that we’ll talk about some soil renovations, which plants to choose, and how to get a green lawn using methods that are healthy for your family, neighbors, and pets, while conserving water, energy, and resources.
Today you can start thinking about the products you have in the garden shed. Are they full of chemicals and pesticides? If so, it’s time to get rid of them. There’s no need to have them around. First off, we’re not going to toss them in the sink, toilet, or sewer, right? Right. That’s going to send icky chemicals swirling right to our water sources. For safe disposal of harmful pesticide products the EPA recommends checking, “With your local solid waste management authority, environmental agency, or health department to find out whether your community has a household hazardous waste collection program or a similar program for getting rid of unwanted, leftover pesticides. These authorities can also inform you of any local requirements for pesticide waste disposal.”
Learn more about disposal of household-use pesticides.
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1 opinion for Green Renovating Your Yard
Peggy
Feb 11, 2008 at 12:32 am
Looking back on my three years as a homeowner (currently living the simple apartment life), I used TruGreen ChemLawn and another company called Good Earth for my lawn. I wasn’t really that green in those days.
Even though I paid the big bucks, I still had weeds. I will buy another house one day, and this topic has been on my mind.
I know that some organic gardeners live with the weeds, but should lawns have them?
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