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Ecological Landscape Design and Organic Lawn Care
by
Chip Phelan
An overview of environmentally sound ideas for backyard landscape design
and organic lawn care considerations.
There is a growing recognition, that the expanding suburban landscape is having a negative environmental impact. Suburban development often includes vast energy dependant monocultures (perfect, grass lawns). They consume a significant amount of natural resources, (water to keep them green and gasoline to keep them trimmed), and they reduce the amount of habitat available for native wildlife. Over use of fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides can leach into water supplies and be harmful to children and pets. Trends toward ecological landscaping and organic lawn care are lessening the detrimental effects of these designs. Many landscape designers are recommending native plant species, and even golf course managers are moving toward organic methods.
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Organic Gardening: An Overview
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What is Compost Tea
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James Ellison
Organic
Gardening enthusiasts have been composting for years. Composting methods take a
leap forward with the use of compost tea. Learn how compost tea works and why
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Winter Gardening
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Candee Stark
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The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control : A Complete Problem-Solving Guide to Keeping Your Garden and Yard Healthy Without Chemicals
An excellent handbook with entries for common fruits, flowering plants, vegetables, and trees. Each listing has information on disease and pest problems and tips on how to solve them without chemicals. Especially useful sections feature photos of garden insects and diseases.
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World's Best Compost If you want the most delicious, problem free and glowing plants and soil then you need to make colloidal humus compost. "World's Best Compost" is the ONLY step by step guide available to make this ultimate plant and soil food, without turning, without bins, without tumblers and without odor.
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"How To Make Money With Organic Gardening" reveals everything you need to know about getting up and started in your own organic gardening business ... as soon as TOMORROW.
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