You decide to go shopping at your favorite lawn care store and while you are there, you notice that the store is promoting organic cotton totes and reusable shopping bags. You stop for a moment, thinking that you ve seen reusable bags at your local grocery store. You start to think what else about your home is green. The answer lies in the very store you are in and that s your lawn and garden.
There are many people who believe a green lawn is a sign of vanity. However, a green lawn serves huge environmental purposes. For instance, when your lawn is green, it helps to purify the air of harmful CO2 that s emitted from fossil fuels. When your lawn is heavily rooted, rainwater can easily be consumed. Lawns that are in poor shape will have pools of water that don t get soaked up. When you have a healthy lawn, you provide an environment that s pleasant for the animals and insects.
When communities and ecosystems meet, it s the ecosystems that suffer. However, to make up for it, a replaced ecosystem is put into place. When you must take care of your lawn, the products you choose to place into the reusable bags will determine what s green.
When your lawn has an issue with weeds, your first instinct to get weed killer. Weed killers have chemicals that can harm and kill the biological processes. If you read the label on these products, you ll see that it can affect certain insect and animal life. The best to handle weeds is to build your lawn up. Healthy lawns will choke out any weeds. Now bear in mind that you ll probably use chemicals to get your lawn to grow healthily. There are few pure fertilizers made of chemicals that can damage the environment.
Apply your lawn strategy to your garden, as it works the same way. You can control your garden problems by either applying chemicals or excellent gardening techniques. Instead of controlling weeds with chemicals, use cypress mulch. This mulch has natural chemicals that will suppress weeds, keep soil moist and keep weeds from getting into the soil cracks. This method of gardening is very eco friendly.
You can handle garden pests much in the same manner. Most gardeners reaction to deal with pests is to purchase pesticides. However, labels on these products tend to warn users about the hazards placed on the environment. Make sure to do some research using the Internet on holistic ways to deal with your garden pests. You can wash your plants with water and dish washing soap if your plants are infected with aphids. You can do bag traps for problems with beetles. Either one of these methods do not leak chemicals into the environment.
Now you ve got your lawn equipment to contend with. One thing you ll need when you purchase lawn equipment is an air filter and lawnmower spark plug. If you have a lawnmower that s in good shape then you re taking care of the environment since well kept engines tend to use far less gas and release less pollution. It s already a tiny amount compared to your car but if every household has a lawnmower, think about how much damage is being done to the environment.
So the next time you need to shop for your garden and lawn supplies, don t just pick out reusable shopping bags to bring home your lawn care products. Purchase eco friendly products that promote the health of the environment, not just your lawn.
Author Resource:
Eliza Reeder writes articles that deal with environmental concerns and eco-friendly living. She encourages everyone to help protect our planet's future by doing things like using reusable bags. You can learn more at http://www.reusablebagsdepot.com
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