Low Water Lawns – Maintaining a Healthy Lawn Under Water Restrictions

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With water restrictions now affecting many homes in most regions of the world, our lawn care practices must change if we are to continue to own and maintain green lawns throughout the year. The effects of water restrictions or drought are most noticeable in the Summer when lawns require the most water to combat evaporation and heat. This stress on lawns can be greatly reduced with careful planning to adapt the sod to grow and thrive with much less water than we were accustomed to applying in the past.

There are 3 key factors to achieving the aim of having a low water and drought resistant lawn, and these are:
# The correct lawn type.

# Training the roots to grow deeply into the soil.

# Keeping lawns maintained at a higher height.

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Waste Management: The Next Step After Recycling

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Our society is changing in many ways, some for the better and some for the worse. One area we can be happy about is that environmental awareness is at an all time high and even people who choose not to change their behavior to help the environment are aware of this increasing trend. The rest of society is beginning to change their attitudes toward the environment and come to a better understanding of their relationship with the world around them.

Recycling is not a new concept and has in fact been in use for many decades, however it is just recently that the masses are adopting this practice into their everyday lives. As a result corporations’ marketing departments are charging full force to offer consumers a plethora of “environmentally-friendly” products, many of which are made of recycled materials. This is definitely a positive change and a step in the right direction, however recycling is a just a band-aide for the waste producing society we have all grown up in and around.
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