Lawns

Breaking the Lawn-Care Pesticide Cycle
From eMagazine.com Go organic. Agricultural extensions often analyze soil for a small fee. Organic care nourishes the soil for a lawn that’s naturally luxuriant, disease- resistant and pest-free.

Have a Healthy Lawn the Natural Way by Terry Childs - A professional landscaper tells how to keep your lawn lush and green without chemicals.

Taking Your Lawn Off Drugs - An organization provides information about why and how to not to use chemicals on your lawn.

Ten Simple Steps to Ecological Lawn Care -Citizens for Alternatives to Pesticides (CAP) provides four routine lawn care steps, then six seasonal steps to ecological lawn care.

Naturalize! Create a Native Landscape by Wendy Priesnitz - If looking out your window to find flocks of goldfinches and butterflies rather than a desolate stretch of manicured lawn, then why not go natural? Paradoxically, converting a thirsty, high maintenance lawn into a carefree natural landscape that attracts abundant wildlife requires careful planning.

• Aerating Your Lawn
  
• Avoiding Exposed Roots
  
• Basic Watering Techniques
  
• Indicator Plants in the Lawn
  
• Grass Clippings are Food!
  
• Maintaining Lawns
  
• A 'Greener' Lawn
  
• Spring Lawn Care
  

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