Weedless Lawns without Toxic Pesticides and Herbicides

Harmonious Environment: Beautify, Detoxify and Energize Your Life, Your Home and Your Planet by Norma Lehmeier-Hartie

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Organic for Health by Sandy Powers

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Pesticides: A Toxic Time Bomb in Our Midst by Marvin J. Levine

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Our Children's Toxic Legacy: How Science and Law Fail to Protect Us from Pesticides by John Wargo

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Blog Posts About Non-Toxic Lawn Care

Reminder: Non-toxic lawn care mtg TONIGHT!: Bob will talk about some of the health and environmental dangers associated with chemical-based lawn care, then present us with non-toxic alternatives for both lawn care and pest control, including do-it-yourself organic options. ...
Cincinnati Show & Tell : Why Propane-Powered Lawn Care Tools Are ...: ... the lawn care power of a gas-powered tool with the environmental accountability of an electric one. The propane-powered tool emits 96 percent fewer carcinogens than a gas-powered tool and is completely non-toxic to ground and soil. ...
Clean Up Your Act « Golden Almond: Gardening and lawn care. Synthetic chemicals for lawns and gardens can be appealing because they can easily help lawns become luscious and help gardens grow great big tomatoes?but there are downsides. These synthetic chemicals can be toxic ... Using non-toxic products can be especially important at outside gatherings and barbeques, where there is food present, as well as family, friends, children and pets. For a general outdoor repellent, citronella candles can be used. ...
Notes from the Underground: Conventional lawns are typically made up of a small number of non-native fine turfgrasses, such as Kentucky bluegrass. To keep them green and manicured, many people neatly mow them at least weekly and regularly water, edge, fertilize, ... By contrast, many of the toxic lawn chemicals are made in the U.S. or Europe. It's clearly time to move to a low-maintenance lawn and that requires a shift in goals for some people from a perfect lawn appearance designed to impress the ...

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Lasting & Far Reaching Effects

Polluted runoff is one of the most serious causes of water contamination. When it rains or snow melts, fertilizers from farms as well as from lawns and gardens, oil from drivewaysm, and paint and solvent residues from walls and decks are all washed into sewers or into local lakes, rivers and creeks. The same sources of water that we rely on for drinking, bathing, and fishing.
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Beat Back Weeds

The simplest way to beat weeds is simply to mow high (3-4 inches).

Longer grass will shade the weeds, depriving them of the sunlight they need to prosper. Cutting too low can also weaken your grass plants. The blades are where the plant makes its food and if they're too small the grass will grow faster to compensate. This fast growth uses up resources the plant could be using to make new plants.

Watering infrequently, as strange as it sounds, actually makes for stronger grass plants. The plants are forced to grow their roots in search of water, and dig down deeper than most weeds can manage, leaving the weeds more vulnerable to a dry spell than your grass.

3 Simple Steps To Make Your Lawn Safe and Healthy:

Mow high! Maintain a height of 3 to 3 1/2 inches. Longer grass has deeper roots, and is more drought resistant. It also shades the ground, thus decreasing the amount of weed seeds that can germinate.

Keep your lawn mower blades sharp! Sharp mower blades cut cleanly, instead of tearing the grass blade and making it mores susceptible to disease.

Use an electric or push reel lawn mower! Using a typical four horsepower gas lawn mower for an hour is the equivalent of driving a car 93 miles. Not only do gas mowers emit more CO2, they release hazardous air pollutants as well. (www.greengrasscutters.com). Reduce how much you mow by reducing your lawn's size! Plant native plants, groundcover, shrubs, trees, etc.
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Carole wrote

I live in Ontario, and its a shame people with no knowledge of what a pesticide is versus a herbicide is, are making the decisions, my six acres are unmanageable without them, now im spreading dandelions by the million all over Ontario, try mulching that!

Posted May 04, 2009

wizlor wrote...

Thanks for your resources....its a good help for my blog.

lawn care tips

Posted January 25, 2009

Outby50 wrote...

Great lens...I'm going to try some of this in my lawn service company. Thanks!

Posted November 18, 2008

CleanerLife wrote...

Great to hear these unneeded pesticides are starting to be banned. We need more places to ban this stuff. Until then regular people need to know they can take care of their yards and gardens without these poisons.

Posted August 24, 2008