Healthy soils can mean the difference between disaster and success for your greenscape. Healthy soils, acc. to the Sustainable Sites Initiative, allow rainwater to penetrate, preventing excess runoff, sedimentation, erosion, and flooding. Soils also help clean, store, and recharge groundwater. By storing water and slowing the delivery of water to plants, healthy soils play a [...]
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Spring Chores Part 2
We continue our look at some great spring gardening, landscape and lawn ideas from Kathy Van Mullekom in a Newport News, Va. newspaper article. • Collect bags of leaves to mulch the pathways and the naturalized areas in your garden. They are free, plentiful and lightweight to handle. If you put several layers of newspaper [...]
Leaves make good ‘food’
Leaves are falling left and right. They’re fun to chase as they fall to the ground, but my friend says they’re even better as food next year for fertilizing our plants and lawns. Here’s a few tips from Eartheasy.com on how to turn those leaves into food: ~ gather leaves and grass clippings Leaves are one [...]
