The Smart Gardening Practices are an environmentally friendly way of gardening. These eight practices are designed to help you create a healthy, beautiful, vibrant garden while conserving water, reducing yard waste, and preventing pollution of our air and local rivers.
Four Easy Ways to Get Started
1. Check your irrigation system
- Look for broken or out of adjustment head
- Set your controller properly for the season
2. Use mulch in flower, vegetable and shrub beds
- Mulch prevents water loss and keeps weeds down
- Mulch materials can be bark, ground tree trimmings and fallen leaves
- Apply 3 inches of mulch
3. Use compost to improve soil health and fertility
- Compost reduces fertilizer needs
- Improves water use efficiency
- Incorporate compost when planting or apply to shrubs
4. Grasscycling when mowing lawns
- Grasscycling allows grass clippings and their nutrients to be recycled into the lawn and soil, recuding the need for fertilizers. In addition, there is less waste to the landfill
Special thanks to "River-Friendly Landscaping at Home"
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