How to Have a Lovely Lawn Without Poisons and Pesticides

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9 Jun

Summer is almost here. Time for grillin’ and chillin’ and calling the lawncare company or going down to the big box store to get fertilizer, weed killer and bug killer for your lawn, right? Wrong. There’s more than one way to green a lawn without putting your family, your pets and the planet in peril.

The folks at Safelawns.org have just about all the information anyone could need to have a beautiful lawn using natural methods. Their FAQ section is a good place to begin and will probably answer most of the general questions you have on lawn care. But if you’d like to delve into the nitty gritty of creating or maintaining an organic lawn, then their how-to videos are a must.

Paul Tukey, the founder of Safelawns.org publishes “People, Places and Plants” magazine, has appeared on “Good Morning, America” and other shows, and is a much sought-after speaker on the topic of organic lawns. There’s also SafeLawns Live Radio if you’d rather listen than read and all the latest news on lawncare.

I was delighted to see that there was a news item about a very popular product for grub control, which contains imidacloprid, a chemical that may have a harmful effect on bees. I hope everyone reads it and thinks twice before using the stuff. What with colony collapse and shrinking habitat, the bees need all the help they can get. One way we can help them is by not using products that are toxic to them or to other beneficial insects.

Here are some other useful links to sites that can help you have a healthy, organic lawn:

Soft, green grass is wonderful to walk on and the best place for kids to lie on their back and watch the clouds. It’s up to us to make sure that the only things that they get from cloud-watching on the lawn are daydreams not a nightmare of toxic chemicals and pesticides.

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