Archive | June, 2010
Blog to be Limited This Week
Due to a severely broken wrist suffered in a fall, blog activity will be severely limited until further notice.
Continue reading...Heroes? Here’s One of Mine
25. June 2010
At the ripe old age of near 50, I now realize I’ve had few enduring heroes in my lifetime. I’ve probably had thousands of infatuations along the way, including about three girls a day in college and since then a peculiar fascination for singers, actors and sports figures. I’m quite sure that makes me American [...]
Continue reading...Florida Couple Leads by the Example of No Lawn
25. June 2010
In Florida, where fresh water shortages are chronic, one couple sets an example for others to follow. Now I’m not anti-lawn, mind you. With children around, I consider lawns a necessity for playing ball, croquet or any number of games. But the principles in this article are sound: http://www.beacononlinenews.com/news/daily/2751
Continue reading...Groundcover Wednesdays: Bearberry
23. June 2010
Week 3: Bearberry An exhibit at my presentation for the 40th anniversary of the Lake Environmental Association last Saturday reminded me just how much the native landscape has to offer — answering the call from many SafeLawns followers to make sure we focus as much as possible on plants that were growing here before the first [...]
Continue reading...New Hampshire May Be Poised to Make a Major Anti-Pesticide Splash, or Maybe Not
23. June 2010
Business has been good during June at the Manchester, N.H., airport, at least on the flights leading to and from Washington, D.C. With that state’s legislature considering bills this month affecting both bio-engineered crops AND lawn and garden pesticides, many of the chemical industry’s finest suits have been frequenting the hallways of the statehouse in [...]
Continue reading...Lawn Reform Coalition Issues First Newsletter
22. June 2010
LawnReform.org has been around now for about nine months, an appropriate enough time to give birth to its first newsletter: http://www.sustainable-gardening.com/archives/5888. The group, which includes some of the leading garden writers, broadcasters and photographers in the United States, has had plenty of success stories to shout about. Thanks to blogger extraordinaire Susan Harris for herding [...]
Continue reading...NBC Video Tip of the Week: Interesting New Hardy Shrubs
21. June 2010
For our video tip for NBC news this week, we focused on some new shrubs that are cold hardy for the northern climates (Zones 3-4): http://www.wcsh6.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=119163
Continue reading...Does Compost “Repel” Pests? In California, You Better Not Say So
21. June 2010
Gardeners have been applying compost and compost tea to their gardeners since gardening began. The dry compost and the liquid tea give the plants more vigor, a bigger root mass and generally better health than plants grown without those substances. When forced to apply compost tea to my grandmother’s garden in Maine as a child, [...]
Continue reading...Compost Tea: Why & How
20. June 2010
I knew I was in a good place in Bridgton, Maine, Saturday morning when I walked into my Landscaping to Save the Lakes presentation at the Lakes Environmental Association’s 40th anniversary meeting and immediately spotted a dry wall bucket and rain barrel. Inside the bucket were a small air pump and nylon sock full of [...]
Continue reading...On Our First Anniversary: Your Top 10 Posts
18. June 2010
It’s absolutely amazing to me that a year has passed since I rather randomly declared that I would post a daily blog on the SafeLawns.org web site. “Daily?” many asked, questioning my rationale and stamina. “Why not weekly?” True to the original goal, though, June 18 marks the one-year anniversary of the SafeLawns Daily Blog and, [...]
Continue reading...- Miracle Gro Deal with Wildlife Federation Outrages Environmental Community
- Citing Guilty Plea, Wildlife Federation Ends Agreement with Scotts
- Chemical Industry Convinces Toronto Flower Show to Ban Film
- Researcher: Roundup May Be Causing Miscarriages in Cattle, Humans
- Groundcover Wednesday: Lemon Thyme
- Amidst Wildlife Federation Firestorm, Scotts Miracle Gro Fined $4.5 Million for Toxic Bird Seed, Falsifying Records
- SafeLawns T-Shirts & Lawn Signs Now Available
- Good Morning America to Showcase Natural Pesticides
- Use New Neem Product for Grub Control
- As Wildlife Federation Defends Its Greed, Scotts Continues to Assault Our Sensibilities
- Elisabeth Beaubien: howdy Paul, sodium laurel sulfate... perhaps no...
- Karina Zedalis: Many school & municipal sports fields are heav...
- jack: One sign is not enough. On our soccer fields, the...
- Tom: I just got unwanted service from Scotts. They spr...
- The Weed's Network: Great environmental eductation Paul. Thanks. Dav...
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