Green Living | Lawn Care Lawn Pest Control
Green Living Section
Green Living | Lawn Care Lawn Pest Control
Welcome to the green living section of our site! There are many things that you can do to enhance or develop your green lifestyle. To make a real impact for the planet, and for your neighborhood requires more than buying a certified green home, or buying low wattage light bulbs and recycling. Green living is much more. It starts with where you choose your home, if you have that luxury, and how you maintain your property.
We will begin by assuming that you may not have control of all the elements such as where you build or buy. Few of us have the money required to exercise complete control in those areas, but there is still a lot you can do to be green as it relates to lawn care, and lawn pest control.
More Green Less Green
To begin with, green living may involve having less green around your home. Green as in lush lawn grasses that is. The vast majority of the fossil fuel based chemicals such as herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers which are applied to home and private property, and our parks and athletic areas, are applied to lawn and turf grasses. Most of the water used to irrigate our landscapes goes on our lawns as well. Knowing this, we should begin to do two things:
- Lower the acreage that is covered in turf grass requiring lawn care.
- Change our methods of lawn care, irrigation, fertility and lawn pest control.
Lawn size and lawn pest control
Some of this can be accomplished by reducing the area of our outdoor habitat that are covered in lawn grasses, and replacing them with native plants and trees. We should pay special attention to the native part of the equation, because plants native to your area will be more resistant to the pests and diseases that inhabit your area, and will require less fertility, and less water.
Lawn type and lawn pest control
The types of lawn grass we use can go a long way toward providing a green living space without using as many pesticides, fertilizers, and as much water. Here again, the word native is important. Grasses that are native to your area will provide better results, using fewer resources and chemicals. When we use this practice, lawn pest control will be less of a problem for us. The native grasses will be less susceptible to insect invasion, they will need less water, so the chances of having fungus, disease and insects will be lessened by the lower moisture levels needed to allow the grasses to survive.
Lawn pest prevention and lawn pest control
This is lawn pest control at it’s best! It is the age old practice of pest prevention which is the purpose behind this website. The practices involved in using pest prevention as lawn pest control are outlined in detail on this site, starting with Lawncare Pest Prevention, Prevention Starts Outdoors, or How To Use This Site. For more green living tips on lawn pest control, landscape pest control, and home pest control using pest prevention, just dig into this site.
October 6, 2008
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