Eco Friendly Tips For Going Green In The Yard & Garden

We tend to think that our yard and garden are already green and eco friendly, but there is always room for improvement and leaving a smaller foot print in our environment.

One eco friendly way to go green in your yard and garden is to stop using chemical weed killers. Remove weeds from your lawn and garden the old fashioned way, pull the weeds up by the roots. While this is labor intensive, the weeds won't return and less chemicals will enter our water sources. Chemical products, like Weed and Feed for lawns are carried into our water supplies by rain run-off, not too mention that any chemical weed killer you put on your lawn can kill any landscape shrubs, since shrub roots usually extend under your lawn.

Once you have removed the weeds from your garden, apply organic mulch to prevent weed growth and retain garden soil moisture.

Chemical fertilizers also seep into the ground and ultimately into our water supply. Use organic compost as an eco friendly alternative. Compost will fertilize your garden and amend garden soil.

Did you know that a gasoline powered lawn mower can produce as much pollution in one hour as driving a car for 350 miles? For eco friendly lawn mowing, use a non-gasoline powered reel lawn mower.

Go green by recycling the rain water that runs off your home's roof. An standard 1,200 square foot roof yields about 750 gallons of water per 1 inch of rain. Be eco friendly and catch that rain water for watering your yard and garden, or even for use indoors.