If you’re anything like me, Spring signals the time of year to being planting new flowers and plants. With beautifying your lawn can come tons of unfriendly gases and lots of needless waste. We try to offset the waste produced by our outside endeavors by following a few simple guidelines.
Timing
As with most activities, lawn care is all about timing. You have to time your planting, pruning, and feeding right with plant care; timing should also play a role in when you do your lawn maintenance.
Plants absorb water best early in the morning or after dark, so it makes sense to plant at this time also. Gases and fumes are at their least early in the morning, so it is suggested that you perform lawn mowing, weed eating, and other chores that involve the use to gasoline then too.
Reuse
In the past I have always been bothered by the idea of throwing away the containers my plants came in after transplanting them. We devised a way to reuse them in the garden and as a play thing.
I plan to use the small containers for starting seedlings in the coming year. We are hoping to plant an apple tree seedling next spring if we can successfully grow one from a seed. The girls use the middle sized flower pots for buckets, houses, making sand castles and anything else they active imaginations can dream up. I’ve also started using the large ones as containers for my gardening supplies in the garage.
Conserve
In an effort to conserve water, we have begun to collect rain water to be used for our garden and flowers. It would be a shame for us to continue to use water from a faucet when our Heavenly Father provides us with sufficient water from the rain.
There are many, many different tips for making your lawn care routine greener. Do a little research and find the adjustments that fit your lifestyle, the important thing is to make them. These tips don’t cost you any money, and could even save you a little, but one thing is for sure…you’ll make a difference in the environment around you.
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As a parent, your main goal centers around keeping your family happy and healthy. As I grow, I learn and one of the big things I’m learning is we put a lot of chemicals into our bodies, oh, and cancer is prevalent in our society. Personally, I draw correlations between the two and because of this my family has embarked on a new adventure. We are delving into the realm of natural eating; however, we still live on a strict budget and this isn’t likely to change anytime soon.
Like many families, mine is gearing up for Earth Day tomorrow. For us, it will be our first year celebrating/observing in our new home so we are doubly aware of the impact we make on the Earth around us.
This was our family’s first year to participate in Earth Hour. I planned plenty of “unplugged activities” for our family to participate in Saturday and got plenty of cleaning done. After an early morning grocery stop for me, it was back home to spend some quality time with my family. I also wanted KG to understand what we were doing and why it was important for us to participate in Earth Hour.
Spring is just around the corner (thank goodness) and chances are you’re like the rest of us with lots of spring cleaning to be done. My girls have harsh allergies so while it’s important for me to keep our house clean, I need to do it in a way that isn’t harmful to the environment or their sinus’. I’ve compiled a very short, very incomplete list of tips to make this spring a little more friendly on you and the environment.