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Book Excerpt: RILE . . . The Thinking Man’s Approach to Weed Control
Out on the road last week after an extended period at home or in my office, I was reminded that not EVERYONE understands the principles of organic lawn care. It’s often easy to get comfortable in one’s cocoon and it’s useful to be reminded that, many times, new ideas are worth repeating. So I thought I’d [...]
Continue reading...Landscape Sustainability: Examples in Three States
30. September 2011
I just returned fully energized this evening from a whirlwind tour of three Mid-Atlantic states. The topics at each stop were landscape sustainability and safety and the examples, at dozens of locations, were stunning. Wednesday evening began with an overview of the Delaware Center for Horticulture with Lenny Wilson, Assistant Director of Horticulture and Facilities at [...]
Continue reading...Community Uproar Turns Back Pesticide Threat Near Chicago
28. September 2011
Anyone concerned with pesticide spraying should take note: PROTESTS DO WORK. For further evidence, turn to Highland Park, Ill., where 25 emails and 600-plus signatures on a petition caught the attention of local officials who ultimately delayed a plan to spray public parks with synthetic weed killers: http://highlandpark.suntimes.com/news/7810266-418/park-district-backs-off-pesticide-use.html. The issue in the community was that, after voting [...]
Continue reading...Book Review: The Organic Lawn Care Manual
27. September 2011
Nearly five years after its publication, our book, The Organic Lawn Care Manual, continues to draw nice reviews. Here’s this one today from About.com: http://lawncare.about.com/b/2011/09/26/book-review-the-organic-lawn-care-manual-by-paul-tukey.htm
Continue reading...Copeland Lecture: SafeLawns in Delaware Tomorrow Night
27. September 2011
SafeLawns will make its first visit to Delaware in three years when I deliver the annual Copeland Lecture for the Delaware Center for Horticulture in Wilmington at 7 p.m. “How & Why to Create a Natural Landscape” will be the general theme of the talk, which will be followed by a signing of our book, [...]
Continue reading...Natural Lawn Care: A Thorough Review
19. September 2011
This article, published last Friday in Pittsburgh, offers a fairly thorough review of natural lawn care, including links to many excellent products: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/lifestyles/homegarden/s_757182.html
Continue reading...Compost Tea Gets Mainstream Plug
9. September 2011
Just back from a soil biology training session with one of the country’s leading experts, Paul Wagner, at the Soil Food Web on Long Island, I remain in awe of the world’s smallest creatures. These are the bacteria, protozoa, nematodes etc. that make our life on the planet possible. Healthy soil, ironically, can probably best [...]
Continue reading...NATRATURF JOINS SAFELAWNS MOVEMENT
6. September 2011
Ag Company Offers NatraTurf products, Ideal for Homeowners’ Fall Application GILMORE CITY, Iowa — If you had mostly dandelions on your lawn last spring, it’s probably because your soil wanted to grow dandelions and not grass. The so-called weeds, in other words, were messengers sent by Mother Nature to tell property owners something about life below [...]
Continue reading...In the Wake of Irene: Assess & Overseed
29. August 2011
More than a few SafeLawns followers and media members have called and emailed today about what to do with lawns after such a huge deluge of water along the East Coast. And a few other friends from Texas emailed to say, “Send the rain this way!” The good news is that lawns are remarkably resilient. If [...]
Continue reading...Our Organic Lawn Trials: Month 13
23. August 2011
Anyone feel the earthquake today? Wow! It was my first earthquake experience in my 50-plus years and, for 30 seconds or so, the world literally seemed to be twisting and turning. I’m guessing it will be one of those “do-you-remember-where-you-were-when” moments. I happened to be at Glenstone, the modern art museum in Potomac, Md., where the [...]
Continue reading...- Miracle Gro Deal with Wildlife Federation Outrages Environmental Community
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- Chemical Industry Convinces Toronto Flower Show to Ban Film
- Former Chemical Applicator: 'I Am Literally Ashamed of Myself for Being Part of It'
- Researcher: Roundup May Be Causing Miscarriages in Cattle, Humans
- Groundcover Wednesday: Lemon Thyme
- Sometimes, You Just Have to Mow . . .
- Government Agency: We Must Reduce Toxics
- Amidst Wildlife Federation Firestorm, Scotts Miracle Gro Fined $4.5 Million for Toxic Bird Seed, Falsifying Records
- Corn Gluten Meal as Weed Control?: 20 Years Later, the Jury is Still Out
- Ken Mitchell: This is all great, but what can we do about the on...
- Mary Allen: Yeah for ethics! Not everyone is a whore for the ...
- Paul Tukey: Beverly, Send me an email at Paul@SafeLawns.org an...
- Beverly Herran: My partner and i observed your content has a copyr...
- Dianne Laheurte: Congratulations to you and Safelawns, Paul, for sp...
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